https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
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well good news, they're just brand wearing snobby kids. Hardly representative of Chinese people as a whole. Also don't put China on a pedestal. I'm not disparaging China here, far from it, but we don't need to treat China like it's Jesus Christ 2. It's unproductive at best.
The fact they were studying in western colleges mean they went thru some very serious selection pressures, I doubt they'd even be representative of 5% of the Chinese population
There's A LOT of not very selective Western unis that will happily take mediocre foreign students.
That's never been a problem, all the selection pressures involve money
In particular if those foreign students come from countries that the university don't have many prior agreements with, as this usually means that they get milked for all the cash they have.
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We all enjoy the Xi-as-Savior meme shit while kinda tacitly understanding that they've still got a long way to go. But it always gets me to see someone say "Oh no! A Chinese person wearing a designer jeans brand! Communism has failed!"
Like, wtf does "appearance of the guy you passed in the parking garage last week" have to do with "nation of 1.4B people implementing its next five year plan"? I'll never understand.
no you see, every person should perfectly match my expectations for a maoist guerrilla in the 1950’s
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Blame :deng-cowboy:
That said, being a billionaire in China is a dangerous game.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/raykwong/2011/07/25/friends-dont-let-friends-become-chinese-billionaires/?sh=1d06bdcc2dda
And while I agree the excesses of the economic elite continue to echo the vulgar displays of western peers, I can't help notice that guys like Jack Ma have chilled out significantly after a couple months in police custody.
If you're going to have billionaires, this is the way to do it.
Based :deng-smile:
Yeah thats nice i guess, and i can understand growing pains i just dont want shitheads to ruin good things
I don't know too many national parties more committed to weeding out shitheads than the CCP.
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this is the worst part tbh
i think china has a ton to teach the third world (both about what to do and what not to do), but i don't think i'm gonna get enough good, reliable info without knowing the language and having access to their publications
for instance, i really wanted to know details about how they've been dealing with the construction/housing sector, which seems to have already reached that level where private companies do more harm than good; this should be the point where nationalization starts if you're really looking into doing a transition
aesthetic distate for bougie items is pointless and counterproductive, and a fucking hilarious reason to say they're not socialist. Eastern Europe was once socialist and they did not have those consumer goods and luxuries that you find so unenlightened and unpure. that was closer to your ideal, I guess. So what happened, why is the socialism gone? I don't want to overstate this, cause there are many reasons why they fell, but come on. we all know what a lot of them wanted.
consider that most people are not perfectly pure, ultracommunist ascetics with no desire for ""decadent"" consumption. that will not change overnight, maybe ever to some extent, and that reality must be accommodated. luxuries that offend your utopian tastes are a very worthwhile price to pay for a stable, comfortable socialism.
the billionaires criticism I understand more, I used to agree. read some theory. read Deng himself if that's not enough
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fair enough, but there's a billion and a half of them. whoever you met is just a few anecdotal drops in a sea of humanity. 1/6th of it.
also, even if there were no Gucci pants, there would still be greedy, destructive people. Boris Yeltsin was born and raised in the USSR his whole life and look what he did.
Yeah i agree and also i obviously met a select group of people that were studying in america in a major that attracts fail children, obviously there are based chinese people out there who may even wear gucci flipflop
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don’t worry I edited my comment to be funnier
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also I’m not a dude, don’t call me that
Im just going to block you this kind of stuff is toxic youre just looking to fight for no reason Edit: i guess i cant block you
Telling someone to not misgender me is not toxic. Please do not refer to me as a dude. Thanks.
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Please stop responding to me. I’m disengaging with you.
Why you think they're going to be world savior? There's a reason why they have non-intervention policy.
I guess in my mind if China can effectively create a socialist country and the QoL gap between them and the US is wide enough- Capitalist propaganda won't hold much water and Capitalist countries will fuck off + become socialist