So I've been watching a YouTube channel called Little Chinese Everywhere. It's a Chinese woman who travels to all different regions of the country. Her videos on minority regions have been amazing, and demonstrate what socialist national liberation looks like in practice. In this video, she goes to a Tibetan city where, for four to six months of the year, the Tibetans leave the city and "play in the grasslands" - long extended summers spent entirely living in the traditional way, but without dependence on subsistence pastoralism. It ends up being a months-long social and cultural festival where all of their traditional lifeways thrive. Then, when the weather turns, they to back to the city and live a modern Chinese urban life (but still thoroughly Tibetan). Tons of her videos show this thriving of non-Han nations with autonomy over their land, lives, and development. It's genuinely moving stuff, and it seems like an excellent model for a socialist post-US and its native nations.

  • JayTreeman [none/use name]
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    2 days ago

    If true, EVERYTHING I've been taught about China is false. It's gotten to the point where I don't trust any of my 'knowledge' about China. If this is just a psyop, it's been terribly effective on me

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 days ago

      For this to be false, there would be an enormously elaborate conspiracy to employ thousands and thousands of people of ethnic minorities to build and live in their traditional ways for the purpose of creating youtube videos to dupe westerners, instead of just actually doing it for their own sake. Check out this video about the Karakorum Pass. She visits Tajik and Kyrgyz areas in the Central Asia portion of China, where we can see even more people living fully immersed in their own traditional national culture. You see an amazing mix of traditional lifestyles, modern amenities, and support for the Communist Party - including people showing off their own recognition for service to the people from the Party. It's awesome.

      Socialism is the only path to genuine national liberation and China is daily proof. Plus, it shows a way the PRC approach is clearly better than the USSR's, which focused on much more forcibly integrating minorities into industrial life, which stoked the nationalism that played such an important role in the illegal dissolution. In China, because those minority nations are far more genuinely autonomous, they are stauncher supporters of the socialist project and the development it has brought to them on their own terms.

      • GiorgioBoymoder [none/use name]
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        2 days ago

        For this to be false, there would be an enormously elaborate conspiracy to employ thousands and thousands of people of ethnic minorities to build and live in their traditional ways for the purpose of creating youtube videos to dupe westerners, instead of just actually doing it for their own sake.

        not to mention creating a huge amount of really mundane video content before that throughout other areas of China.

    • niph [she/her]
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      2 days ago

      It's good to question and critically think about both what you've been taught and new things you come across. If you grew up in the West though, everything you've been taught about China is likely false or highly biased, yes

    • GiorgioBoymoder [none/use name]
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      2 days ago

      you should watch more of her videos. I've been following since she did the video on tulou houses, and especially like the flow of videos before she gets the scooter. the earlier series where she travels from europe to china by land is also interesting. there's every indication that she simply makes these out of a passion for the work, imo. there are plenty of moments or topics that I wouldn't consider flattering of China or expect to be present if the goal is to fool westerners. I'd also expect the production value to be a tad higher if this was some sort of operation with ulterior motives lol.