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That's pretty much my conclusion as well. I think I understand China pretty well, I don't think I could even explain it to help westerners without losing my st
by vmception 5y ago
That's pretty much my conclusion as well.
I think I understand China pretty well, I don't think I could even explain it to help westerners without losing my standing in China. So there is always going to be this disconnect, and of course even that would embolden westerners to stick with their current conclusion about the place. There is just a lot of unsaid things that are still important to understand, and I think all societies have various topics that you will never get a satisfactorily honest opinion about from their people. So China just isn't different enough for me to only focus on things I don't like about China, thats my real conclusion: its just not different enough to treat them differently.
I would say skimming major events in the last 200 years of Chinese history, as well as their current constitution will help make China make a lot of sense.
- neom 5y agoI think what you said is very interesting. I read between some of the lines and understand you have a genuine perspective (that we could probably spend hours and hours over drinks discussing) but yeah, in all my "china thought swirling" I do about the whole emerging thing, I come to the same place, I go back and forth on your conclusion. Right now I'm on the other side, but last year I wasn't, and I tend to oscillate every year or so. The problem is by the time the history book is written about the lessons learned, translated to english, and makes it's way to a doc someone in Canada could watch... I'll be long gone, so I doubt I'll ever really know.