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> as the Chinese are very much obsessed When you say “the Chinese” who do you mean? Chinese anthropologists? The government of China? The citizens of China
by wombatmobile 5y ago
> as the Chinese are very much obsessed
When you say “the Chinese” who do you mean?
Chinese anthropologists?
The government of China?
The citizens of China?
Ethnically Chinese people everywhere?
A subset of one or more of the above cohorts?
It’s important for you to be specific when you accuse someone or some people of “aggrandising” because that’s an insult when applied to individuals who are not guilty of it.
- ganzuul 5y agoSeems like self-identification answers these questions. Nation-building is a fairly new concept.
- webmobdev 5y agoAnd the kind of upstaging we see in the name of nationalism is also quite understandable as imperialism was often justified by the "superiority" of the white man's culture and religion. Revisionist history in the colonies was one of the political tool used to keep them subjugated.
- SongOfSeikilos 5y agoThis belief is really niche, globally- and reacting like it’s a morally correct perspective is weirdly a form of cultural imperialism. Few people in China would object to the framing of “the Chinese”
- webmobdev 5y agoI am talking from a purely political perspective, and since China has a one party system with only one broad political ideology allowed, I thought it would be obvious that I meant the political leaders of the Communist Party of China. (I cannot be more specific than that because I don't know the spectrum of political thoughts that is allowed within that ideology in the CPC).
- webmobdev 5y agoOn the same topic - Communist Party powered by history? Why China's one-party rule is facing a legitimacy crisis - https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1865965/legitimacy-crisis-facing-chinas-communist-party https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/18...