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Uhhh maybe they came from a Tier 3 city or something. Most Chinese I have talked to know about Tiananmen
by tomhschmidt 13y ago
Uhhh maybe they came from a Tier 3 city or something. Most Chinese I have talked to know about Tiananmen
- jlgreco 13y agoMaybe they did. Does that explanation mute the concern?
- markbao 13y agoIt was a crazy thought for me, too, but something to also consider is that there's some selection bias in the Chinese that you might talk to (i.e. Chinese people that talk to foreigners regularly) vs. ones that don't; the ones that do probably tend to know more, whereas the ones that don't probably fall into the "never heard of Tiananmen" category.
- Aloisius 13y agoI know at least one person who moved to the US from China for graduate school and had no idea about Tiananmen. Mind you, it is not something I bring up, she just happened to bring it up during a conversation It is pretty easy to find Chinese people talking about how few people (specially younger people) know about it too: http://www.quora.com/China/What-percentage-of-Chinese-know-about-the-Tiananmen-Square-incident http://www.quora.com/China/What-percentage-of-Chinese-know-a... http://observers.france24.com/content/20080605-tiananmen-square-china-censorship-media http://observers.france24.com/content/20080605-tiananmen-squ... Even those who have heard about it though, many probably haven't seen the pictures to truly understand the scale of it.