Rice field to magalopolis in a generation. Absolutely wild speed of seismic change.

I think of China as a country that pretends to be communist while making cheap products that vary in quality. I also think of the nice people that live there though.

A country and its flag. They sort of come up simultaneously in my head.

Rude, impolite and loud people. But not all Chinese people are like that. But the ones that are stand out the most.

People I don’t know enough about.

a plate

Useless plastic shit

Chinese food, which i love.

Such an enormous country. Old people doing tai chi in a park. Little kids earning red stars at school. Government trying to control the population too tightly, yet somehow also lacking basic safety regulations. Good food.

Unfortunately, it’s trump squinting his eyes, and saying “China!” with a pause and a scowl. Rent free in my brain.

Second thing I guess is some bullshit where they were cracking down on Ramadan in a news article.

Third I suppose is the rich history and cultural tradition.

That piano riff. You know the one.

Very interesting history and culture, plastered over with bland authoritarian turbo-capitalism that disguises itself as communism.

Uyghur people in concentration camps while tourists invade their homes

winnie the pooh

Authortarianism and censorship to the point where I can never return to my former homeland until that changes for the better. No worker’s rights. Human rights issues in the north and west in areas that weren’t part of China historically.

Possible conflict with Taiwan (if that happens than I’d be sent to the camps to die by orange cheeto, unless I leave).

1.4 billion people & had the One Child policy for the longest time.

Lots of enviornmental problems, air pollution (and apparently much of the country has really really hot heat indices in the summer, avg high of 40C and low of 30C already… no thanks).

Really difficult language to learn (tried to learn it back when I was in school, couldn’t really and basically forgot it all).