I have talked with a few mainland Chinese people over the last few months, and I still feel I haven’t quite gotten a “general view” or understanding of how Chinese people view the world
The people I spoke with were very diverse Some were gay, some were married, others were students, and some were living abroad
But none of them has quite eased my “itch” of knowing how they see the world and their political viewpoints… So for those who have interacted with both Mainland Chinese and the broader Chinese diaspora (like immigrants or those born abroad), what differences in mentality have you noticed?
I met a Chinese guy when I was in Bahrain; it never occurred to me to ask him his world views at the time as I usually just assume most people are just meandering through life, but at one point we did get to discussing the British pushing opium on China. I hadn’t known about it at the time, and I asked why they would do that (I didn’t disbelieve him, I was genuinely curious) and he told me it was because they wanted to weaken the Chinese people. At the time I was hesitant to believe that because I hear it all the time from people around the world: “Oh this group of people are trying to weaken our race!”, but as I grew older and read up more on history (both older and more recent), I realized no actually he was bang on point.
He also told me about an American ‘veteran’ he knew; he said he used to anger him by telling him about how his father (the Chinese guy’s father) was in the military during the Vietnam war and how he used to kill US troops over there.
Honestly awesome guy.
Lmao!
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