I get so much conflicting information about China, some say it's a dictatorship, a creepy dystopian surveillance state. Other times I hear it's a lovely, friendly country with a great quality of life.

I admit, I'm a lazy :LIB: and I don't know much about China. So I have a few questions:

  1. Is China a democracy? I know it's single-party ruled, but can they choose their leaders within the communist party?

  2. What is the work culture like for the average person? Are people overworked and underpaid, like I've read in western media, or is that all projection?

  3. Is the average person happy? How are disadvantaged people treated?

  4. What's privacy like there? As bad as the west, better or worse?

It would be cool to get some answers from someone who has actually lived in China, if any of you have. I'm pretty sure we have a couple of Chinese users?

P.S. Pls don't gulag me for being taking so long to learn more about world politics I am terrible at being a leftist :anarcho-bottom: :left-unity-4:

  • cresspacito [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    despite coming from a poor and not too educated family, my girlfriend became an aeronautical engineer

    This sentence is so beautiful to me. I can't wait to eventually visit China.

    • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Hopeless people do crazy things, like shoot up a school, become a hard drug addict, join a right wing militia, kill themselves, post hate on the internet and just cause a lot of our societal problems you know

      They'll do anything but organize against oppression :angery:

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is a really common story in China from my understanding.