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I studied chinese so hard after 2018 💀

There's almost 0 state efforts to preserve the cultural identities of immigrants of any kind

When people celebrate "diversity" in the West, it's just eating shawarma, drinking boba, watching Anime, listening to kpop, and eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. Pure commodification and consumerism masquerading as celebration and promotion of foreign cultures

Or you'll have people fetishizing about spicy latinas, lightskins, and Asians like they're fucking Pokemon cards

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      We should also be wary of tiktok which has been described by some Chinese government people as a tool to be used on the west. That very app is designed to monitor and divide us.

      inshallah

      amerikkka ukkk france-cool

      • Oomfart [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        You might be, but doesnt mean the Chinese Government is. Hence all the money and resources they're stockpiling in their new elites.

        • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Let me clarify. I don't believe the claims about TikTok you made, but if they were true it'd be good.

          Death to America.

          • BarnieusCalgar [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            They're trying to say that "China isn't Socialist" (which is wrong, btw), & are alluding to your username to make that claim.

            • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Oh, I see.

              Even if I accepted that characterization of China, it'd have no bearing on me wanting to see the US & "the West" broken lol

              • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]
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                1 year ago

                That's the part that always baffles me. Anticommunist propaganda always seems to hinge on the accusation that "They're almost as bad as we are."

                Even if we didn't have an incredibly strong tradition of making baseless, lurid claims against everything left of the Clintons, the accusations only ever approach the atrocities that the US not only admits but also upholds. This shifts the proposition from "Would you support something as evil as we claim they are," to "Would you risk whatever material security you have for just some improvement instead of perfection?"

                It's an appeal to cowardice

    • BarnieusCalgar [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I might've agreed with some of your points here, but...

      We should also be wary of tiktok which has been described by some Chinese government people as a tool to be used on the west.

      Why do you think that this isn't "home-grown" American/Western racial essentialism?

    • ElHexo [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      That very app is designed to monitor and divide us.

      You don't actually believe this, do you?

      It is dangerous to suggest we cannot go to a restaurant just because its ethnically not part of our heritage

      I didn't see this anywhere in OP's post

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      We should also be wary of tiktok which has been described by some Chinese government people as a tool to be used on the west.

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      10 months ago

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      • Oomfart [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Not quite the point I was making. The point I was making was the cry of "cultural appropriation" Over here we had an MP complain that white people should "not eat jerk spice or use it on x food".

        • ElHexo [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Over here we had an MP complain that white people should "not eat jerk spice or use it on x food".

          Did you, though?

          All I can find is

          #jamieoliver @jamieoliver #jerk I'm just wondering do you know what #Jamaican #jerk actually is? It's not just a word you put before stuff to sell products. @levirootsmusic should do a masterclass. Your jerk Rice is not ok. This appropriation from Jamaica needs to stop.

          The article, from five years ago, explains:

          The decision to label the microwavable rice "jerk" has been criticised, because the product doesn't contain many of the ingredients traditionally used in a Jamaican jerk marinade.