Re:Disneyland Shanghai shuts over COVID, visitors unable to ...
by thinkingemote on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:05AM
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Another factor to understand is that China has a foundational myth which influences behaviour. Essentially the idea is not to rock the boat because history shows so much pain and bloodshed in the founding of the country.
A demonstration risks not only destabilision of this myth, it risks bloodshed and massacres because stability was won after so much pain.
To be Chinese in a certain way is to work against chaos. As much as to be British is to maintain the dignity of individual persons.
It's kind of hard to find a western equivalent which uses the hard lessons of history. Maybe something like the rule of law?
A demonstration risks not only destabilision of this myth, it risks bloodshed and massacres because stability was won after so much pain.
To be Chinese in a certain way is to work against chaos. As much as to be British is to maintain the dignity of individual persons.
It's kind of hard to find a western equivalent which uses the hard lessons of history. Maybe something like the rule of law?