Re:Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlas...
by FooBarWidget on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:06AM
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Okay, I see your point.
Although, are political participation and nationalism the same thing, or even strongly related? Can't people harbor strong nationalist sentiment while still being apolitical?
Re:Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlas...
by baybal2 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:11AM
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> Can't people harbor strong nationalist sentiment while still being apolitical?
In the context of China, no. Maybe in other countries, where the ruling party have not spent the last 100 years making an ideological singularity of itself, the state, the nation, and the country.
I very much do. I've seen a few nationalist, but nationalism as such in China is not real.
The prime majority of people in China are completely apolitical, because they are afraid to get involved. Mainland Chinese are probably the most apolitical nation out there.
And of the few nationalists I've seen, none would come up in the open, and shout "I LOVE CHINAAAA," not even the dumbest ones. And none of those were normal people. One was a tech millionaire, another probably was already an insider to the system, and there were few idle socialite-intellectuals supported by rich parents who moved to the West.
The highly visible nationalism you see in China which pops out of nowhere, and disappears without a trace a day after is of a theatrical kind.