I respect your POV, and agree with your views on picking your fights.When whites accuse Asians of being racist, it's an admission of their own guilt. Why do you think white people in the anglosphere get so triggered when asians speak in their own language? Because that white person believes they're talking shit about him/her and why would they think that? Because amongst their own co-ethnics, they love to bitch and moan and laugh at racist jokes about others. Every single thing the USG has accused China of doing, it has done itself from PRISM, cyber hacking, blackmailing, kidnapping, torture, murder, etc
and that's ok, your experience are just as valid as my experiences. We agree on many things but the only salient difference is that i have written off the entire anglo state social/corporate entity whereas you appear to still view it as a viable path forward and indeed, engineering and tech is certainly viable as meritocracies simply because you can't indian your way up the engineering hierarchy.
There are certain battles that one - and China as a polity - can choose not to fight because it would play to anglo strengths, and playing the corporate game with its neverending bamboo ceilings and goalpost moving is one such game i would recommend avoiding, epsecially when you can simply create an alternate game that sucks money, wealth, clients and power away from the anglos.
Take the Taiwan issue, the americans were planning on initiating a conflict with China in 2021 with that Pelosi trip and had setup the board in their advantage. China simply chose not to take the bait and spent the next year and a bit assiduously preparing themselves for war. The effects are concrete: american retreat from the first island chain, the filipinos approaching China cap in hand, the loss of american prestige, the current stagflation in the US due to chinese dumping US debt. Similarly, when i recommend asian workers of anglo corporate structures, to simply treat their careers in such structures as a stepping stone and adopt the anglo culture of 'nothing personal, jack, it's just business', i'm encouraging them to look out for their own best interests and not to invest too much of their own blood sweat and tears into an entity which views you more as a competitor on a deep freudian level, than as an ally.
Yes, same; when pressed on "where are you really from", i immediately say China, and when they ask which province, i say Taiwan and when they say 'but you're taiwanese then, not chinese', i immediately correct them. The whitesplaining is out of this world. All in all, anglo australians see themselves as american or british or a member of the Five Eyes, anglo empire before they conceviably view themselves as Australian as a nation state per se.
I'd like to clarify that I share the below view, however a guy still needs to eat, so why not command more resource for oneself?
i have written off the entire anglo state social/corporate entity
I'd also like to note that you are not without the ability to influence outcomes, wherever you are, and that on a personal level, 'winning' will provide a big boost to quality of life. I feel good when people listen to me or defer to me, especially when its locals.
I just can't stand to see people being bullied.
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