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:
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Is China a democracy? I know it's single-party ruled, but can they choose their leaders within the communist party?
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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?
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Is the average person happy? How are disadvantaged people treated?
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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:
Most Chinese people are indifferent to other races in daily life. The stories about dark skinned people being treated poorly are real, but they aren't the norm. The bigger issue is the attitude towards race mixing. It is sadly too common for gen x and up to believe that bringing dark skinned people into the family is wrong. This is the same for LBGT. Slowly these attitudes are changing, but there is a long way to go. If you are dark skinned and not becoming part of a Chinese family, most likely the worst thing you will face is people either staring at you or sometimes even asking for a photo because you are the first dark skinned person they have seen in their life.