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Wang Yi calls for promoting China-UK ties in right direction
Looks like Europe is war-weary and is ready for China to negotiate a ceasefire. Recent news from the US also suggest the US might follow along with China's peace plan. Sadly westerns never understood the slogan 世界人民大团结万岁 on Tiananmen.
Ukraine Looms Over Chinese Foreign Minister's European Visit
Looks like Europe is war-weary and is ready for China to negotiate a ceasefire. Recent news from the US also suggest the US might follow along with China's peace plan. Sadly westerns never understood the slogan 世界人民大团结万岁 on Tiananmen.
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The SCMP perpetuating a Western narrative again. Do they think infrastructure happens overnight? With the West, it never happens hence why when US officials travel to Africa they find themselves flying into Chinese funded and built airports, drive on Chinese made roads, and go into Chinese made buildings.
The younger generations (millennials and Gen Z) definitely are a significant driver in Asian American politics and significantly less or not hateful at all. They are more united than before compared to the past generations. However the animosity is still there among the older generations as I noted, and they are a big voting base. I base my observations on areas with a heavy Asian immigrant community (think West Coast of the US) and elections.
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When identity politics took off in the 2016-2019 time frame, for Blacks, it was pretty easy to form a unified identity. Long removed from their African roots, common experience in slavery and Jim Crow, inner city struggles, police brutality, drugs, it was a common experience they could unify around, especially since polically too Blacks were already well established. Whites obviously divided themselves based on left/right wing political beliefs and you had subgroups like LGBTQ.
Asians though are newcomers to America. Yes rights groups say we've "been here since the 1800s" etc, but the vast majority of Asians in today's America are either 1st or 2nd generation. Even if don't know a lick of your native language and rejected all the traditions, you still were to some degree exposed to it at home, ie. your upbringing was not 100% American. So when identity politics took off, guess what? Most Asian Americans rather than coalescing around an Asian American identity, decided to retreat back to their roots. Because what is "Asian American identity?" About the only thing I could think of is a shared love for boba tea. So yeah, it doesn't exist.
When Eastern and Southern European immigrants were forced to assimilate into the Anglo identity, there was not much of a barrier since Anglo identity is still European. Asians will never be accepted into the Anglo identity and the Asian American identity is skin deep and perhaps more tragically never had/will never be allowed to develop, so every one just identifies based on ancestral country. And no surprise, in addition to relearning the languages, getting in touch with the motherland for some has meant adopting the current prejudices. So now you have American Born Koreans hating Chinese people, Indians hating Pakistanis, Vietnamese hating Cambodians, and everybody just looking down on Filipinos. Really, its a mess.
Well, US green energy policies fail unless they stop their weird cultural conflict. Energy source is already a political topic in the USA. We already have people maxing out their gas stoves and posting the photo of that to Twitter to "own the libs". I don't think even scapegoating China would work as long as 45% of the US population thinks solar panels = LGBT.
You just described modern Indian “identity” and nationalism.
If Giorgia Meloni had fought as hard for the BRI as she does for weapons to Ukraine, maybe Italy's economic future and safety net could be assured. Now this, and general italian racism against Asian tourists...whither Italy. Unlike Greeks who respect their history and culture and modern italians are no different to the slave roman bureaucrats who sold out their nation to visigoths and anglo-saxons.
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Sunken Cost Fallacy: older generations of immigrants need to justify the hardships they experienced, so they force themselves to find various reasons why they can't go back and sh_t on China. The more China rises, the greater the lengths they need to go and the more uncomfortable and disturbed they become.
Internalized racism and self-loathing: one of the most terrifying things to see in someone. Some people would sell their own mothers if it meant they could be slightly more white. All for that sweet, sweet, Anglo validation. Seriously, mental colonialism is disturbing on so many levels.
There's also quite a difference in immigrant culture between the East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, South of the US.
West Coast has large enough Asian communities for distinctions to form. In the Midwest/Mideast/East Coast there are so few Asians, "Orientals" group together regardless of their actual ethnic differences. For those immigrant children (ABCs), you either double down on your roots, or you're assimilated into a wannabe-white who will look down on your "inferior" unassimilated parents, subconsciously avoid Asian culture, and refuse to speak to anybody in Chinese (including trying to stop other Chinese people from also speaking Chinese, all the way down to doing the pretentious "we're in America, in case you didn't know, we speak eNgLiSh"). West Coast though, has a rich and defined history of "AZN" identity, so the youth feel way more accepted and self-confident.
I feel you can also see this paradigm reflected in race relations, i.e. it's completely normal to see White-Asian couples on the West Coast/Australia vs it's weird and stigmatizing to see them on the more traditional, old-timey East Coast.
No idea what it's like down South though, love to hear other's opinions.
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