Maybe silly but at my Korean classes there’s a seemingly “apolitical” guy working in IT who plans to work in China’s IT sector and we talked a bit about it. Just talked about how it’s exciting but wishes it was less difficult for him to go, that they’re making huge leaps in the IT field etc. Just nice to have a convo about it without Uyghurs or muh political freedoms or whatever coming up.
I fucking hate it when there’s a picture or video about traditional Chinese art or folklore (which I’m trying to rediscover after moving out of China as a kid) and all the fucking comments are regurgitated Western-narrative bullshit about the See Sea Pee.
Yeah, I’m sure they existed when that piece of pottery was made or that folklore started circulating. And for all the Orientalists saying “oh woe how communism has destroyed China! The age of whatever ancient Chinese thing the post was talking about was China’s golden age!” I’m sure the ancient imperial government who literally cut off the dick and balls of male servants (not a joke, they did that) and enforced foot binding for women was the epitome of human rights and definitely prioritized the people.