Re:China’s Millennials
by thrwway483 on Monday October 07, 2019 @08:47AM
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you didn't talk about how this affects fashion, etc.
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Re:China’s Millennials
by freeflight on Monday October 07, 2019 @11:17AM
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How does it "affect fashion, etc."? You act like China is this super isolated place where nobody knows what's happening outside of it and everybody is just a conformist wearing their state-sponsored grey unis.
When in reality Chinese people are as diverse a people as any other, they are just as influenced by Western pop-culture as any other people.
Case in point: Asian hip hop, yes even Chinese hip-hop has seen quite a rise in popularity.
They copy a ton of tropes out of the US, like most non-US hip-hop has been doing for decades, but they also inject their own Chinese identity as part of the narrative of the songs [0].
Of course, that's a rather acquired taste, but I would easily count as "counter-culture", after all that's also exactly what it started out as in the US.