I think her whole thing is making clickbait titles and then the videos are positive of China. She also did an interesting one about the secret homeless populations of Japan.
edit: After watching the video, it seems like she is a pro capitalist lib irl, and the video is very balanced with providing examples that make China look much better to her Western audience than any other 1 million + follower content creators, but there is always an undertone of "but China is authoritarian."
She talked about doing a paper, in her Chinese language foreign relations master's degree level class, on "how China has a bad view of Japan," and then implied that when she got points deducted the teacher's reasoning of "the sources not being valid" were actually because you just shouldn't talk about that topic because it is taboo in China. There was no mention of, I don't know, the 22 million Chinese people brutally killed by Japan or even Japanese colonialism in general. She also is married to a Japanese guy and lives in Japan now fwiw. It is strange to me that the implication is that her sources must be valid so the teacher is wrong, instead of maybe her bias towards American and Japanese narratives meaning that she is picking and chooses authors who have those same biases and are not accurate, even if they are upheld by 5 eyes academic systems.
She also talked about mentioning to "Tienanmen Massacre" in a presentation and seeing some students visibly shudder because, she assumes, they had never heard to it referred that way before. I feel like there is a subtext here that is "it was a massacre and they are not allowed to know that," but she was using it as an example of how it was actually not a problem to bring up this topic and discuss it which dispels the common myth that it is like, an erased history that is forbidden to be discussed. the vibe is that she is informing the students of something true that they didn't know about before because of Chinese information control.
Another weird one was in a debate, she argued in favor of free markets dictating the economy because they were more efficient and the other student froze up, the professor asked the student how they were going to respond and they said they didn't know how. This, she surmised, was because they had never heard of these ideas of free market capitalism before, and so the student couldn't have been prepared to respond. She at least says "like we are in America in the opposite way," and generally holds this both sides tone, which is I guess the best you can expect for someone with a large following.
Still, it is frustrating that someone who has grifted so hard off China and Chinese culture for a decade is still so american brained.
Another weird one was in a debate, she argued in favor of free markets dictating the economy because they were more efficient and the other student froze up, the professor asked the student how they were going to respond and they said they didn't know how.
I feel for them. I mean where do you even start with a position that dumb? Its like not knowing what to say in a debate with Jordan Peterson when he's five minutes deep in a rabbit hole about dragon's a biologically real because fire and lions are both predators.
the students didnt shudder they cringed because chinese people aren't shielded from tiananmen square they are taught about it
also that debate probably just caught the chinese student off gaurd. obviously the response to that is that is a market created efficiency through competition then how can non-competitive supply chains completely insular to major corporations like walmart be so efficient? they are are completely shielded from the usual market forces and are, de facto, a form of planned economy on a smaller scale. i doubt your average chinese debater has read "the peoples republic of walmart"
Oh really? Like click bait title gotcha libs here's a normal take grounded in reality?
Still with a name like oriental pearl
Pearl Davis has done to the name 'Pearl' what Hitler did to pushbroom mustaches
You're not wrong, but I'm pretty sure the problem is using "oriental" in 2024 champ
Referring to Asia as the "Orient" is just such a reactionary sounding thing. I assume Biden talks about the boy emperor in the Orient
Been playing a lot of Disco Elysium recently and I want to refer to the west as Occidental, but I don't think people would get that if I said it out loud
[medium: failure]Ignore them, sire. Language is but a means to an end in the stage of life, and if the audience are philistines who know nothing about obscure references to a small town in Jamrock, they are probably just uncultured losers from La Delta.
Yeah the name is sus for sure but that's what the reddit comments where saying. I'm here for click baiting the libs.
Occidental Amy: How I Survived Cracker-fication in America's Top University (being able to read above a sixth grade level)
That thumbnail is also incredibly lazy AI. Good lord. I never thought I'd miss the days of lazy photoshops as much as I do, but boy do I!
I don't think it's AI i think it's just a lazy and racist photoshop
like the straight lines where the two students in front have been inserted in
The row of students in Japanese seifuku have no discernable features on their face
it looks to me like they took a really low rez image and enlarged it and then pasted it over an empty classroom
Can someone elaborate on what's wrong with the name? There's a building in Shanghai called the Oriental Pearl
White people using the term "Orient" or "Oriental" goes back to colonialism and imperialism in Asia and often represents simplified racist narratives of non-Occidental cultures which are demeaning and derogatory. There may be some name remnants within Asia or MENA that reference these terms but they're historical leftovers of this brutal age of colonialism these regions endured. For more information, Google Orientalism and it's consequences.
I hope they bullied the shit out of her. Show her why there's a firewall.
