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Well, yes, China doesn't have open media for its citizens. Chinese people will on average be less well informed about China, even accounting for the extent of A
by pjc50 10mo ago
Well, yes, China doesn't have open media for its citizens. Chinese people will on average be less well informed about China, even accounting for the extent of Americans who choose trashy propaganda channels.
(reminded of ex-tech influencer Naomi Wu, who basically went dark with a post along the lines of "the police have told me to stop posting")
- woooooo 10mo agoYou're saying Chinese people are less informed than Americans about China?
- curt15 10mo agoCompare what is required to learn about the Tiananmen Square massacre from inside and outside the Great Firewall.
- woooooo 10mo agoNi juede zhongguoren bu zhidao tiananmen square 1989 de shihou zuole shenme? That's HSK2 being generous, if you had to plug it into Google Translate, how can you say you know more than the people who speak the language and live there?
- aprentic 10mo agoGiven that they're regularly labeled as "pro democracy protests", I'd venture to say that most people outside the Great Firewall don't know much about it either.
- s5300 10mo ago[dead]
- bllguo 10mo agowestern arrogance is truly astounding. somehow people who consume 0 chinese media and cant speak a lick of the language somehow are intricately aware of not only chinese media, but chinese society. but of course. the benchmark is minor influencer and HN darling naomi wu.