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Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored... by __sy__ on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:36PM (#20595440)
Interesting, I was curious. Personally, I feel like the nationalism has gotten a lot worse / uncomfortable in Guangdong in recent years. I don't feel like it used to be this way in anything-goes Southern China.
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Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored... by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:49PM (#20595539)
I don’t think it was that bad in 1999, 2002 or 2008. Indoctrination was still a thing, but most Chinese kids didn’t take it seriously. It took some populism combined with nationalism from Xi to really turn things around.
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Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored... by __sy__ on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:08PM (#20595687)
My time in China doesn't go back that far, but it certainly feels different from when I first went there. Guangdong used to feel pretty chill about that stuff, probably a combination of HK-Proximity and the Emperor-is-Far/Mountains-are-high attitude. Nowadays, you can't drive anywhere without seeing Xi's 12 fucking thoughts plastered everywhere. Even Hua Qiang Bei has speakers blasting out propaganda.
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