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China is now a country where a high-school handyman has a master's degree in physics; a cleaner is qualified in environmental planning; a delivery driver studied philosophy, and a PhD graduate from the prestigious Tsinghua University ends up applying to work as an auxiliary police officer.

These are real cases in a struggling economy - and it is not hard to find more like them.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Don't know why the down votes. Yes you could argue the Chinese traditional cultures don't glorify cheating but then there's as much Chinese traditional culture in China today as there are the classical culture of the ancient Greeks in the US right now lol

In real life people praise taking unfair advantages to achieve what you want in popular cultures in today's China, where people praise it as a form of strength, sometimes even "wisdom", in a society where respect to established standards and moral principles is viewed as foolish. And you really can't blame them either considering such things as "established standards and moral principles" are the most popular ingredients of propaganda and political brainwashing, and a lot of Chinese people are actually not idiots who can't see that.

You only need to visit Chinese language social media now to see that everywhere.

[–] Randomgal 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You're thinking about the Nazis in America

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The difference is how such behavior of individuals are perceived and reacted by other people. Yes such people exist in the US but in the US social institutions exist where when one acts like this the others will very openly reject and denounce such ways of thinking, and in the US for a long time such social institutions held great societal influences, while in China most people will praise instead.

But yeah now you see why in the US the Republicans have been so motivated in de-funding and ruining many of the already established social institutions

[–] Randomgal 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Really bro? Because there are Nazi salutes on your national TV. Are these "social institutions" that denounce such acts in the room with us right know?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

And who TF elected such Nazi into the position of power? You 100% had it all coming lol