Inspired by the recent c/AskLemmy question about Myanmar.


As a PRC-born ethnic Han-Chinese person who currently is a US Citizen and reside in the US, I’m curious on what people think of my former country.

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    2 days ago

    If you are a person not from there, it can be a potentially traumatizing experience, depending on what parts of the country you go to.

    Actually, foreigners (white foreigner to be precise) such as Youtubers Serpentza and Laowhy86 managed to go around China and make videos critical of the CCP and they didn’t end up in prison or anything. But if a Chinese person attempted the same thing, they’d probably get jailed. I feel like there a sort of “foreigner privilage” that basically the CCP doesn’t want to get involved in a diplomatic incident, but is otherwise happy to punish their own citizens (since there wouldn’t be any diplomatic incidents).

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      2 days ago

      If you want to pretend to know something about China and badmouth them you should at least know the CCP doesn’t exist.
      The CPC does.

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          1 day ago

          Your confused with the non-existing country Taiwan
          Your comment literally translates as CPC.
          Besides the nasty insult you paid propaganda people can’t do without apparently.

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      2 days ago

      I didn’t even mean trauma from the gov’t, which is a whole different level, but trauma from its own people. My wife traveled to China for work and it was not great for her.

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        1 day ago

        Culture shock from going to an advanced society?
        Not seeing mass homeless and junkies in the streets, working public transport, etc can be a bit much.

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          23 hours ago

          You obviously know I meant the opposite. Not all of China is advanced. There were indeed homeless people and likely junkies. You can go into my post history if you want to see the longer story.

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            14 hours ago

            Congratulations, you’ve discovered sarcasm. (see what I did here?)
            China has lifted 800mln out of poverty. 3,3% under the poverty line (for now). The US banana republic has11.1%.
            China is the nr 1 in homeownership in theworld BTW at 96% And not even beginning about the junkie comparison.

            Your post history just shows your Sinophobia in another comment under this posts and then I have to scroll back to see your ‘expertise’ comes from…second hand stories from a 2 week trip your wife took once.
            And that expleinss she’s butthurt bcs they don’t have a groteskly obese population like the US and they ridiculed her for it.
            I guess it’s a more original reason for badmouthing them than the normal envy the US has for losing hard to them economically.
            So LOL, cope

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              13 hours ago

              Thank you for teaching me sarcasm, I am in your debt. I’m also not an expert, and she’s not obese since she’s a personal trainer. You also forgot that she had a friend who also lived in the city she visited, for years might I add. It’s not just her experience. I also don’t think anyone was putting into question how fucked up the US is, because it most definitely is. The OP was asking a specific question and I answered it.