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I dont understand why the Economist hyping memes like "lying down" and conflate it to the communist party. Should Caixin hyping up FML,YOLO or other TikTok meme

by eunos 5y ago

I dont understand why the Economist hyping memes like "lying down" and conflate it to the communist party. Should Caixin hyping up FML,YOLO or other TikTok memes and relate them to Biden and Trump?

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
You're comparing a party with an individual; a fair comparison would be to compare it with the Democrat or Republican party. That said, the US still has the illusion of being a democracy and its people having a will of their own, which isn't as much of a thing in China. That said that said, "western" media does tend to make China into a uniform mass, while in reality it's much bigger, richer, more populous and more diverse than Europe and the US combined.
- Haga 5y ago
  Do you refer to the minority Disneylands in the Han ethno state?
- Clewza313 5y ago
  As it happens, this article is also pointing out that the country is not a monolithic mass of CCP robots executing orders to increase production.
- eunos 5y ago
  Well I use the leader names as metonym to the current administration. It's Biden admin not Democrat admin. > will of their own Do you think CCP still unilaterally assign jobs to the Chinese people along with weekly quota or something? I argue that these feeling of tiredness and hopelessness is less about CCP than long working time hours which also common in East Asia.
  - Koiwai 5y ago
    I assume you missed the "illusion" part?
rchaud 5y ago
Because English-speaking readers aren't going to go to Weibo or Douyin to check out these memes for themselves. I've seen the same kind of simplistic extrapolation done by the NYT. Take some ephemeral trend, then make it sound like a huge social phenomenon that's making the CCP quake in its boots. If foreign outlets wrote about Western countries like this, we'd be patting ourselves on the back for solving ALS by dumping a bucket of water on our heads.

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I dont understand why the Economist hyping memes like "lying down" and conflate it to the communist party. Should Caixin hyping up FML,YOLO or other TikTok meme

by eunos 5y ago

I dont understand why the Economist hyping memes like "lying down" and conflate it to the communist party. Should Caixin hyping up FML,YOLO or other TikTok memes and relate them to Biden and Trump?

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
You're comparing a party with an individual; a fair comparison would be to compare it with the Democrat or Republican party. That said, the US still has the illusion of being a democracy and its people having a will of their own, which isn't as much of a thing in China. That said that said, "western" media does tend to make China into a uniform mass, while in reality it's much bigger, richer, more populous and more diverse than Europe and the US combined.
- Haga 5y ago
  Do you refer to the minority Disneylands in the Han ethno state?
- Clewza313 5y ago
  As it happens, this article is also pointing out that the country is not a monolithic mass of CCP robots executing orders to increase production.
- eunos 5y ago
  Well I use the leader names as metonym to the current administration. It's Biden admin not Democrat admin. > will of their own Do you think CCP still unilaterally assign jobs to the Chinese people along with weekly quota or something? I argue that these feeling of tiredness and hopelessness is less about CCP than long working time hours which also common in East Asia.
  - Koiwai 5y ago
    I assume you missed the "illusion" part?
rchaud 5y ago
Because English-speaking readers aren't going to go to Weibo or Douyin to check out these memes for themselves. I've seen the same kind of simplistic extrapolation done by the NYT. Take some ephemeral trend, then make it sound like a huge social phenomenon that's making the CCP quake in its boots. If foreign outlets wrote about Western countries like this, we'd be patting ourselves on the back for solving ALS by dumping a bucket of water on our heads.