Incredible displays of racism, holy shit.
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They just insist upon themselves, you know?
The US might even soon have The Copium Wars.
most American liberals don't realize that they are white supremacists so there is gonna be a lot of denialism like this as their century of humiliation accelerates
I'm not really worried about him.
I think there is a dimension missing from his brain.
You notice it when you read his post.
And without this dimension he will eventually crumble.
It's sounds like they are implying a specific element that the intended reader of the comment should know, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what they mean by that. Chinese culture, from my very limited understanding of it as a very westernized ABC, certainly isn't lacking in any fundamental aspect that I could even conceive an ignorant and racist person believing. Surely, even the most chavanistic Europeans of centuries past could see the incredible culture of one of the world's oldest civilizations. Is this person somehow even more ignorant than them? Incredible
Surely, even the most chavanistic Europeans of centuries past could see the incredible culture of one of the world's oldest civilizations.
Europeans well into the 18th century looked up to China. Go read up what people like Voltaire said about Confucius. It's really the 19th century when Europeans thought that China ain't shit.
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Surely, even the most chavanistic Europeans of centuries past could see the incredible culture of one of the world's oldest civilizations. Is this person somehow even more ignorant than them? Incredible
I think you can be so chauvinistic as to do that but I think the answer for lindyman specifically isn't even that, he's just a dunce. Walked through china, saw chinese culture and he can recognize it as such but crucially it's mired and has its groundworks in very different cultural axioms and preferences, which makes the end result feel like 20% off. Then you just have to be chauvinistic enough to go "well this doesn't speak to me, default type person" and voila
I think they might be talking about Jesus/Christianity. A lot of western civilization enjoyers think anything that isn't based in their religion is doomed to fail.
They're never gonna come up with 3 hours of good guys punching robots, y'all. They're cooked.
Yeah, crumbling for 5000 years now.
"not a racist, btw"
Oh wow you mean to tell me "do something" guy has another incredibly myopic and detached take. Wild.
The west has no emotional connection to China's past or history. The only history the west knows is kung fu, a monkey series, some people know three kingdoms vaguely from dynasty warriors and then there's the century of humiliation.
The largest part that they actually know is the century of humiliation. This is in large part due to british influence.
They know nothing else, so anything they see just feels hollow because there's no context for any of it. It doesn't feel real.
Contrast this with what they do know - european history - and they have a completely different feeling about all art and culture because they can contextualise it in their knowledge of that history. It feels right, it feels real, and it doesn't feel fantasy, because it is something they understand.
Contrast this again with Japan and you can see how Japanese culture, religion and art resonates with people in the west because they can contextualise it better as a result of far more engagement with and understanding of Japan.
This "feeling" issue is just vibes created by familiarity, with the history and the culture.
You've got it backwards. People learn about a culture's history after being interested by the culture itself. The reason why Chinese culture doesn't resonate with the west is because it was never fully subjugated in the same way India or Japan was.
People don't get a history lesson on Japan and then get into anime. They get into anime and then get history lessons on Japanese history. US schools aren't teaching yanks shit about Japan beyond WWII. The reason the why so many yanks is because the Japanese have a lot of practice selling GIs manga.
Similar relationship with India. If you're a Brit maybe you got a proper history lesson on India but as a Yank I got jack shit. Way less than on China. I still know less about Indian history than Chinese. Yet Indian culture is way less foreign because of how many indians speak English. I wouldn't be surprised if a French or German had zero grounding when it comes to Indian culture.
If you're a Brit maybe you got a proper history lesson on India
Only thing that covers some of this are RE classes.
No thats impossible. My perspective is neutral, and my emotions and sentimental attachments are the correct ones.
Definitely deploying this at work.
some people know three kingdoms vaguely from dynasty warriors
HEY, some of us know it from Capcom's 1989 smash hit JRPG Destiny of an Emperor for the NES!
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...No? 
I completely agree and last week I made a post about this cognitive hole. Real vs hollow is exactly my subjective experience of it. Despite ofc "knowing" that it is wrong and ignorant. Simply being aware doesn't solve it.
Having even the most cursory familiarity with greeks > romans > christians > protestants > british > americans makes learning anything in that timeline 100x easier than anything outside it. And vikings too. Anyone else ever wonder how many converts fascism was delivered from the multiple streaming TV shows about vikings?
You know I see all this stuff about how "representation" of different identities is important in media so people who have been historically under-represented can "see themselves". And that may be; but I also think a diverse representation of identities/experiences/collectivities benefits everyone. Because we can "see each other".
I heard there is research (but haven't looked into it) that the TV show Will & Grace had a big impact on turning americans away from hating gay people so much, especially those who "didn't know" any gay people. It provided a "humanizing" opportunity. Even though Will & Grace has lots of critiques from gay side of things, ultimately that was not the direct target audience, although there as indirect benefit.
All this fighting over "DEI" and whatever, it is because these people recognize, in a different way and with different judgements, that all these casual exposures add up over a lifetime.
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let me guess, the 'missing' characteristic is yakubians?
suffering under capitalism puts exquisite nuance into art you would never understand.
We need Chinese fighter jets flying over US cities so it'll feel more familiar to American culture 
Can someone explain how he managed to post straight through the empathchan debacle? Depraved man
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