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!

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    I think it depends on your audience. I live in the USA (😔) and a vast majority of people here do nothing but parrot outrageous lies about China.

    Your average American views Chinese citizens as subhuman, so I basically just keep my mouth shut about any valid criticism of China.

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      3 years ago

      Yes, it’s hard to give valid criticism when all you’re constantly bombarded with China bad propaganda.