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Opening up to China has not made that country more Western, it could be argued it has made the world more Chinese.
by philistine 3y ago
Opening up to China has not made that country more Western, it could be argued it has made the world more Chinese.
- fnimick 3y agoSee also: VCs talking glowingly about how "productive" 996 makes Chinese companies and how US employees should be working similar hours to keep up. Greed knows no national boundaries, and the societal norms that kept it somewhat under control in the West are being rapidly eroded.
- throwaway2037 3y agoI cringe when I see the term "Western" vis-a-vis countries in East Asia. How does it sound if we say "modern"? That sounds better to me. Why? Then, it includes Korea, Japan, and Taiwan -- all very modern, but not at all "Western".
- philistine 3y agoI agree with your sentiment, but the collective delusion to open up to China was not an attempt to make it more modern. It truly was an attempt to westernize it. In the colonial, racist sense. The Allied powers wanted to westernize Japan and Korea as well after the second world war.