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Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's like watching a speedrun: Capitalism any%.

Next? Some of them have to be thinking "wait, this is a communist country, isn't it?"

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I don't think anyone think of China as a communist/socialist country for a very long time. Maybe except older generations and tankies.

Ironically, I have met more tankies in six month on lemmy than my 18 years growing up in China. It is truly a wild culture shock that I didn't expect. LOL.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A "tankie" isn't a communist anymore than an American Republican wants individual freedom.

Anyone that supports China is going to say it's communist, and anyone from the right shitting on China is going to say they're communist.

But both groups are pretty much the same and no one should listen to either

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago

My pet conspiracy theory is that a bunch of tankies are actually CIA trolls, in an effort to tie criticism of the US together with completely bonkers causes. The end goal being that if you think the US is not the best thing ever, you must be a tankie, and you support authoritarian regimes like Iran and China.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

it's not that ironic if you look at lemmy's origin.