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It's not about culture. China has been interacting with the rest of the world for millennia. It's about mindset. It's about them not willing to let go of their

It's not about culture. China has been interacting with the rest of the world for millennia. It's about mindset. It's about them not willing to let go of their chauvinistic imperial outlook they impart on themselves and to the world.

throw44532323 5y ago
- Quarrelsome 5y ago
  today, not the 19th century.
dang 5y ago
Nationalistic flamewar is not allowed on HN and posting this sort of nationalistic denunciation is not ok, regardless of which country you have a problem with. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- jerry_cto 5y ago
- wyuenho 5y ago
  But the parent is? Han Chauvinism actually is an academic topic you know. It's not any denunciation, it's a fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_chauvinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_chauvinism
  - dang 5y ago
    The parent isn't ok either. I probably could, and maybe should, have posted the same scolding there. Your phrasing seemed marginally worse to me. Re "fact": it's of course good to be talking about facts as opposed to fantasies, but it's not sufficient for good discussion here. There are many other variables, including (1) which facts people select to talk about (there are infinitely many, after all), and (2) how they talk about them. Those things are choices, not facts. Past explanations here if anyone wants more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20infinitely%20many%20facts&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...