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China’s millennials, Gen Z leading nation away from American culture
- Leary 6y agoAmerican films have not experienced an absolute decline in China. It's just their relative share have declined as Chinese films have improved from bad to passable. King Kong vs Godzilla is projected to do $166 million[1]. [1]https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2564993/godzilla-vs-kongs-crazy-opening-china-box-office-is-back-king-of-the-monsters https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2564993/godzilla-vs-kongs-c...
- asjldkfin 6y agoI don't think this is surprising. You can't expect to constantly lambast an entire nation of people and still expect them to treat you favourably. That's not how humans work.
- johnhughes 6y agoyou are right, can’t feel positive about a nation that’s brutalizing millions of Ugyhurs and terrorizes other Asian countries
- relax88 6y agoI'd be willing to bet most of the worlds youth are less enthused about American culture after the last 4 years. Would be interesting to compare sentiments between other countries. The box office thing just seems to be that domestic filmmakers are producing better stuff.
- umeshunni 6y agoAgree - while the rise of woke and cancel culture in America have affected people's perception of American culture in the last few years (e.g https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-18/u-k-and-france-are-diverging-from-u-s-on-race https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-18/u-k-an...), I think the lack of quality entertainment from Hollywood over the last few years (reboots, superhero movies etc) are a much bigger reason for the rise of local movie industries.
- ideamotor 6y agoYou mean the rise the grievance culture and its insecure leader.
- georgeplusplus 6y agoThis isn’t a thing. Cancel culture and woke culture is though and it’s embraced wholeheartedly by the radical left. Even left leaning Europe thinks it was too extreme that Twitter cancelled Donnie
- klyrs 6y agoY'all. The word "polarization" captures both, and explains why you each think only one is the only problem. There's a cycle of causality here.
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- jpetso 6y agoLeft-leaning European here, I think he gathered enough demerit points that wouldn't usually fly with any review team, except he was a high-profile political leader which made it relevant regardless. Now that he's not POTUS anymore, by all means let him play by the same moderation rules as the rest of us serfs.
- georgeplusplus 6y agoYour leaders say differently https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-european-leaders-question-twitter-donald-trump-ban/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/angela-...
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoNo, that's not what umeshunni meant. What's more, unless you fail basic reading comprehension, you know it's not what they meant. But props for the totally transparent attempt at deflection, or whataboutism, or whatever that was... I absolutely despise that rhetorical trick of pretending that someone was talking about the opposite of what they obviously are. It's both dishonest and transparent, and does nothing to advance real conversation.
- spicyusername 6y agoAmerica's millennials, Gen Z are leading America away from American culture. I don't think its surprising to see it in other parts of the world.
- klyrs 6y agoTo the contrary, they're defining the American culture of their era.
- yellowapple 6y agoIf by "away" you mean "back toward it after the Boomers had made a mockery of it", then yes, I agree wholeheartedly.
- akban 6y agoAnd how exactly did the Boomers make a 'mockery' of it? I'm sure a lot of us here would love to know
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- ProjectArcturis 6y agoThis take is insanely disconnected from reality.
- throwaway0x1 6y agoIt's not a "take", leftist self-loathing is a real, measurable phenomenon, and they're the only group who do it: https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/284875/americas-white-saviors https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/284875/am...
- ProjectArcturis 6y agoThe Communist Party in China has led an economic boom over the last 40 years absolutely unprecedented in human history. That earned them a ton of credibility with their citizens. You can commit atrocities and few people will care if you also lift 500M people out of crushing poverty. At the same time, Chinese soft cultural offerings like movies and music have gotten decent if not good. Why would they look up to America at this point?
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- nuller 6y agoWest Taiwan succeeded despite of the CCP. Besides go travel outside Shenzhen, Shanghai or Beijing. Its an absolute shit hole.
- throwaway0x1 6y ago>The Communist Party in China has led an economic boom over the last 40 years absolutely unprecedented in human history. Thanks to capitalism and Western democracies. Taiwan and HK accelerated at a speed exceeding the CCP, by decades.
- akban 6y ago>Taiwan and HK accelerated at a speed exceeding the CCP, by decades. No they most certainly didn't. 'Communist' China has the fastest, consistent year-on-year economic growth rate of any nation in history. And even the current slowdown in growth (from 10%+ in the 90s & 2000s to the current 5% to 6%) is more a consequence of its $14 trillion+ size. A nation with barely any consumers as at 30 years ago, is now the biggest market for practically everything, from cars, to smartphones, to PCs, to fashion. Hate the country however you want, but the facts are clear: China is finally awakening from it's multi-century slumber.
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- kennycoding 6y agoIMHO, I don't think the Chinese gen z, or Chinese of any gens, are leading the nation away from American culture. In a more YC-ish term, the American culture is merely diluted. 2 facts: American blockbusters are still very successful in china, at least the good ones; there are a lot more decent options other than American ones, which was not the case a decade ago. The same can be said with HongKong culture, which used to be the only game in town.