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:

  • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    LGBT community did not seem terribly well accepted. Lots of jokes about gay people, etc, but maybe not so different than here in the early aughts

    How does this differ between the generations? Are Chinese zoomers accepting? Do they have the same views as Anglo zoomers?