Debating whether it's lying or "lying" seems a lot like debating whether it's racism or "racism."
You says chinese is one race. You mean Hans. If not we are not of one race. You cannot have your culture hans and fighting Mongolian, tibetian, manuchuain ... all your thousand of years literally. Then suddenly they are chinese because in the last 100 years someone decided to occupy these people's land then they are chinese.
What is china? Heard of Great Wall. Why is there a Great Wall. Has the Qing emperor thought the Hans are not enemy to be killed and contained.
We may say you are European. But let us not kid ourselves when thing boiled down you are english, French, ...
We may say we are Soviet Union. Brotherhood ...
And these we are chinese under communism is shameful.
There are more than politics. But killing culture, suppressing people, ... I am ashame to be associated with this gang.
I know more than you, I love my poems from tong down to mao. I share my many dreams that one day we will kick this communist ass out and we will ....
But who are we. That is a question.
As to chinese minge with their own. Do you know all chinese education now has a foregein language and also most top guys descendent run. They do not feel comfortable with each other over there. Or here.
Btw, Korea and japan may get a bit from us. But like china people copy apple to make little rice does not mean they are American. A lot of our vocabulary is coming from japan. Chinese do not have the word for society.
We are all human. At least for now (well we are in the hacker group). We do not deny our heritage. But not recognise who you are ... you love nazi because you are germany, do you?
Let us be human first. And do not look at a black face and then say he is africn American. He is human first. He may come from a part of Africa you do not know. But do not think first he is an African.
I am not chinese. You are not as well.
That's pretty close to what happened in most European countries too. French, Italian and German only became unified cultures 100-200 years ago, based on the dominant culture of the rulers, I wouldn't expect China to be any different.
Hopefully, as more Chinese traveling overseas, and China attracting more foreigners into the country, local populace are exposed to more diversity, and start to form their own opinions based on personal experiences instead of biased media reporting and hollywood.
I disagree with the assertion that Chinese are racist. You will never see a restaurant in China that says "No ---- and dogs" except in early 20th century Shanghai. I agree that Chinese are usually less sensitive about racial topics. They will carelessly call a foreigner "洋鬼子", but that's as bad as "Yankee" goes IMHO.
I've heard that in US Chinese guys usually date Chinese girls. But really can we blame that they are racists?
> When it comes to history, Chinese people again suffer from the box-syndrome - many are proud and fervently study Chinese history, and thus barely scrape the surface of world history.
Disagree again. If you really study Chinese history, you won't find much pride there.
Very poorly chosen example, because "No Japanese and dogs" signs are incredibly common across China. [1][2][3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_Chi...
[2] http://beijingcream.com/2013/02/no-dogs-but-also-no-japanese...
[3] http://chinahopelive.net/2012/09/17/japanese-and-dog-no-near...
> They will carelessly call a foreigner "洋鬼子", but that's as bad as "Yankee" goes IMHO.
"洋鬼子" literally means "foreign devil". Are you serious?
Way to not take connotations into account. If you take everything literally, you'll be offended everywhere.
I call some of my best friends "bastards". Am I implying that they're born out of wedlock?
Funny you should mention that. The relation between two people is actually quite friendly except political occasions. Also the Japanese hate is due to the world war 2, not racial. In fact we are one race.
> "洋鬼子" literally means "foreign devil".
'devil' is a strong word. It's more like 'foreign strange men'.
China is what happens when you enclose a really big population in a box. And this box is really comfortable; you have little incentive to go outside of it. You have the company of millions of other Chinese folk, and Chinese culture and its derivatives (to this day many of us see Korea and Japan as copies of Chinese culture) can entertain us indefinitely. The average Chinese has little incentive to run off and seek interaction with other races, other bits of culture. I suspect (but might be wrong) language barriers also play a role in this.
Even today in places outside China, you can notice how Chinese will naturally gravitate toward each other into little "bubble" communities. The fact that there are just so many of us makes this very easy. I know other cultures do this as well, but like I said, we have the population advantage.
Chinese are racist because we have very limited experience with other, non-East Asian cultures. Oftentimes you will see Chinese follow straightforward stereotypes regarding ethnicity. For example, Chinese attitudes toward blacks easily stem from what they see in the news or media (Movies, crime reports, etc.). Confirmation bias does play a bit in here: Chinese culture already has a pretty simple ideal in which darker-skinned people are unfortunately shafted and considered undesirable.
When it comes to history, Chinese people again suffer from the box-syndrome - many are proud and fervently study Chinese history, and thus barely scrape the surface of world history. My immigrant father could recite many Chinese emperors by name, but knows nothing about American, European, even Japanese history (except WW2, of course). One thing I found interesting was that my dad is totally fine describing the brutality of ancient and medieval Chinese rulers, but as we get closer to the present, the spotlight turns to Japan and then things get quieter. Even today he watches media pretty much exclusively on Chinese apps - no Youtube, etc. I can tell there's so much there for him, he has no incentive to look elsewhere.