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> ... but his narrative on the Chinese experience in America is very unconvincing. That depends. As an Indian, I got the impression that his target audience we
by thisislife2 3y ago
> ... but his narrative on the Chinese experience in America is very unconvincing.
That depends. As an Indian, I got the impression that his target audience were right-leaning / Republican Americans. Look at the political values he covers - gun rights ("More guns, good!", "Texas better than California"), importance of religion ("going to church, conversion"), racial issues ("Black Lives Matter is indoctrination; Blacks harass Chinese", "white people are nicer"), capitalism ("students running small business") and of course, America is land of free. Sometimes articles like this are helpful - perhaps some Republicans reading this may feel Chinese immigrants are not so bad if they are attracted to Republican values and likely to become Republicans. ;)
- rufus_foreman 3y ago>> I got the impression that his target audience were right-leaning / Republican Americans Right-leaning Republican Americans don't read the New Yorker.
- ElevenLathe 3y agoRight-leaning Democrats definitely do though.
- whythre 3y ago‘Right-leaning democrats?’ Right compared to who? Lenin?
- ElevenLathe 3y agoContrary to popular belief among Americans, the Democratic party is very clearly right-wing by global standards. There is a "progressive" fringe (with little institutional power) that basically wants what would elsewhere be centrist liberal policies, and an even fringier "leftist" wing (with zero institutional power) that wants the party to essentially be a euro-style Labor party.
- naveen99 3y agoAmerican left is the global middle. The non U.S. right is the american left.
- joshuaissac 3y agoThe U.S. Democratic Party is about as right-leaning as many mainstream right wing parties in Europe.
- yuck39 3y agoI am a right leaning American who subscribes to the New Yorker. I find a lot of their essays to be surprisingly non-partisan. I especially enjoy the fiction pieces.