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Also they dont humiliate you day and night calling your culture backward, a bonus when you want people to work with you.
by secondaryacct 5y ago
Also they dont humiliate you day and night calling your culture backward, a bonus when you want people to work with you.
- sul_tasto 5y agoI see this pattern a lot in the US. I don’t fully understand where it comes from, the early puritanical religious roots of the colonial period?
- leetcrew 5y agolarge scale "boots on the ground" invasions are pretty hard to sell to the american public. they don't generally want to see american soldiers die without a good reason. retaliating against the people who harbored bin laden is already a pretty good reason, and liberating the subjects of an oppressive regime is icing on the cake. of course, it's hard to paint a regime as oppressive without also calling them "backwards". after all, if they were as advanced as us westerners, surely they would have a free democratic society already. /s
- queuebert 5y agoNot well read on Chinese history are you?
- tuatoru 5y agoIt might be better put as "the Han Chinese think everyone else is a barbarian savage, but also, they prefer to leave their vassal states to run their internal affairs themselves. They don't call them barbarian savages on a daily basis."