Agreed. Even in a racially homogeneous country like China and other parts of Asia, people will discriminate amongst different dialect groups, cultures from different geographical regions, religion/religious factions, sex/gender, immigrants, social classes, etc. People gonna hate. Opportunists are gonna gaslight for money and power. Race is ONE reason/excuse for them to do so.
It’s part of the human condition. You can’t eradicate it.
On the other hand, you can’t look at how people think in a one dimensional way.
My grandmother would curse the Japanese as a whole for what they did in S.E Asia during WW2 while encouraging me to get a Japanese spouse because they’re “obedient” and was ecstatic when I was really dating a Japanese chick long ago lol.
Then I met my wife and she was berating me when I told her she’s from China because people from China “are coarse, disrespectful and can’t keep their homes clean” LMAO. We are CHINESE. Then she met her and now they get along extremely well. My grandmother is the kind of person who will complain and gossip about EVERYONE. BUT she never says anything about my wife.
Agreed again. There are certain thoughts I have on this issue but my main point would be that one shouldn’t have to struggle needlessly but should be brought up in a way that one CAN handle shit if one needs to struggle. I know this is not what the guy you’re replying to is saying but I can’t be bothered to address his point because he’s living in some fantasy world.
Your parents and their parents didn’t work their asses off so you would have to struggle as much as they did and I’ll bet you’d do the same for your kid.
I lived a pretty tough life but I don’t buy the arguments that the generations after mine should have to go through what I did, just like I didn’t go through the shit my previous generation did during WW2. Each new generation may be “softer” but so what? Being “hard” isn’t something to really boast about. Several badass motherfuckers I know would go crazy if I forced them to learn to code lol. Are they bigger wusses than tech nerds? What am I doing with my “street savviness” and ability to take shit nowadays although it benefitted me in business initially although I could have just used my degree for an equally lucrative profession if I wasn’t so bloody rebellious at the time?
I’m watching nonsense on YouTube and Netflix on my bigass smart TV while sitting on my “ergonomically designed” recliner my wife bought me.
The only difference is I can be comfortable both doing this and squatting on the floor while eating my lunch on the sidewalk when I had to do manual labour way back. This latter would never be required of any kid here today since the economy has shifted so drastically here there would literally be no jobs for any local kid who wants to do that in the first place so what’s the point?
There are always going to be rich and poor people in any country. The only difference is how many there are, and what is considered “poor”?
China has a minimal welfare system. NO handouts in any form were given during their lockdowns. Even prior to the pandemic, if you walked around the street in Shenzhen during peak hours, you’d see 15-20 beggars in 20 minutes.
We’ve had over a year of a world wide pandemic. Societies in 1st Wold countries haven’t crumbled even though the new generations have been getting “softer”. The developing nations are the ones getting fucked because they have no money. Why don’t they have money? Because the governments fuck it up when “evil” multinational corporations try to invest and build infrastructure.
Which brings me back to the guy you are responding to. HE is the kind of kid that was brought up without being taught how to struggle when needed. People who have gone through real shit in their lives don’t think like this unless they’re fucking worthless bums.
You know why there aren’t as many of these bums in Asia? Because there’s NO FUCKING WELFARE. Even the fucking beggars without any visible physical ailments in China “earn” their money by bowing every second for HOURS.
Even under socialism in the later years of the Cultural Revolution when they briefly managed to pull off the food cards and shit and relied very little on money, their mindset was that if you didn’t work in some way while receiving your handouts, people would spit at you. No fucking excuses unless you were severely physically disabled. A socialist bum is really a fucking oxymoron despite what kids think these days.
Severe back pain? Fuck you. Depression? Fuck you. Raising kids? Fuck you. Missing a leg? You still have one. Fuck you. Wong lost both and he’s still pushing himself around on a self-made wooden trolley. Fucked up childhood? Fuck you. Missed a shift because you were watching Petticoat Junction on a black market satellite TV? Fuck you, off to the countryside labour camp you go.
A fucking politician in Malaysia can refer to Chinese as “pigs” TODAY and nothing will happen to him. And still the local Chinese are the ones propping up their entire economy despite being a 25% minority with Affirmative Action implemented for the majority race for almost 50 fucking years. But even amongst the Chinese communities, there are dirt poor ones because they developed a shitty culture.
I’m NOT trying to equate this to the US since I don’t know what’s really going on there. I’m just stating that if a group of people decides to think as individuals and prop themselves up, they can eventually elevate themselves at least to a certain degree as long as they have the mindset and there are enough of them to make cultural changes take place.
