Re:Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping
by luckylion on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:12PM
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> In Europe, people still don't really identify as being European before they identify as English, French, German, etc.
My impression is that that's a dividing line in many European countries. Some (mostly the elite) identifies as European and sees the single nations as backwards and vulgar, while others identify as their nationality and consider the EU as an elitist project to shift the power away from individual nations.
Re:Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping
by throw51319 on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:26PM
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Yup, and you could say that's the strength of a well-lead homogenous country.
That's why although i'm more left-leaning, the constant focus of the left on subgroups being wronged is laughable and such a distraction from the reality of the world. China and their technological superiority and increasing economic sphere doesn't care.
Re:Dreams of a Red Emperor: The Relentless Rise of Xi Jinping
by malandrew on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:14PM
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I'm not even sure you need to be that well-lead when you're a homogenous country. Alignment tends to be self-evident and incentives are more likely to be shared/common. Emergent phenomena of the group aligns with the interest of the individual.
Where you need good leadership is when you have heterogenous groups that lack coherent alignment and need to be brought together to establish consensus.
This is such a big reason. We no longer identify under a single identity. In America, that would be identifying as an American. In Europe, people still don't really identify as being European before they identify as English, French, German, etc.
Between both America and Europe, we no longer identify with being Western.
The fact that we now increasingly identify with some subgroup, means many of us focus on improving the success of the subgroup with which we align. That means that growing your piece of the pie means growing the size of the pie of your subgroup over growing the size of the pie for the larger group (European, American, Western, etc.)
In China, on the other hand, the focus is on growing the size of the pie for China. It's going to be hard to compete with this unless we adopt the same mindset.