First of all, I want to say that it’s wonderful to see all of you here, and your critical support of the nation I proudly call home. But more and more recently, especially reading through Chinese internet too, there has been a sense of overconfidence and overglorification of China. It is honestly a little worrying at times for me, because as much as I love my homeland and is proud of what we are doing, I know full and well that we are still a long way to go. I see this sentiment of China being the glorious land far away as a bastion and utopia against Western Imperialism and while there’s a lot of truth behind that sentiment, and I definitely understand why one not living in China would choose to believe this (I live in the US now and I understand your pain, fellow US comrades). I just want to remind everyone to exercise dialectal materialism on this subject and try to look at China in a less idealised way. We cannot grow to be better without recognising our mistakes. Anyways that is my little message to you all. Have a nice day!

        • Sojik@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 years ago

          It doesn’t apply to me. My wife is from China and her family lives there. I’m not in danger of overglorifying or idealizing a place our family has connections to. If the rest of you are concerned you might be idolizing or idealizing China, take their advice, I guess.

          • bubbly_walk_5615@lemmygrad.ml
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            3 years ago

            That’s fair enough, I personally think it’s hard to over-glorify China compared to the sheer over-glorification the Imperial Core enjoys and the intense negativity it promotes of not just China, but any country that isn’t in the Imperial Core and especially AES nations.

            That being said, without insisting China must change to suit western tastes, having discussions about how western comrades would will do things differently is always a good topic anyway without any confrontation intended, I think.