Anonymous OP 1d

aware of them as an LGBTQ+ Chinese American. And I’m not saying there’s nothing good about Japan. I’d love to visit myself someday. But the fact is China has a lot of futuristic technology too. And Chinese people are really down to earth and welcoming. But when I tell my friends to visit China, to hear them dismiss it as some slum surveillance state and then later talk about how much they’d love to visit Japan and how futuristic and amazing it is really hurts me in some way.

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Anonymous OP 1d

And also China is big. Really big. And full of so many local cultures, cuisines, and regional languages. To dismiss the entire country when it’s so big and diverse is just ignorant. Like my family wears black and black armbands with white text when we’re mourning and going to funerals. My friend, who’s also Chinese, her family wears white and blank red armbands. Each local cuisine is so unique and so different from anything anywhere else in the country.

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Anonymous lightbluehater 1d

They got billionaires son

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Anonymous #1 1d

Less than we do

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Anonymous lightbluehater 1d

haha thanks bro appreciate ya

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Anonymous #1 1d

interesting do elaborate if you’d like

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Anonymous OP 1d

I’ve always liked China, I read Lao Tze when I was 11. Tbh if you look into some of the founding fathers they were sinophiles. Ppl just like Japan more rn bc of the soft power they exert over culture through their tech, art (especially anime), & confidently Japanese yet modern way of life. China is vast, & since the Great Leap Forward has waned in its development of high culture on the global stage comparatively. I think that’s starting to change tho. Wang Hui writes rly interestingly on this

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Anonymous #1 1d

If China ever thinks a billionaire is exploiting people it arrests them and puts them on trial. That doesnt happen in the US.

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