treat enthusiasts are the primary offenders here, people who really like treats think the west is numba one because chinese treats are not as good. education is another issue people (with means) think the west is better in, although there is starting to be more comparative discourse here.

after 89 most people learned to be apolitical and the cpc has been actively quashing radicalism at every end of the spectrum since then, consequently for most people the west takes up only as much real estate as state media allows it to. most people's lives are not so far in the gutter that they need to fantasize about moving to another country in search of a better life and so they tend to concentrate on what is at hand.

(inter)national bourgeoisie so privileged that geography doesn't exist for them, petit bourgeoisie looking for the next rung up on their social ladder, proles with their noses to the grindstone, standard shit.