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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by senttoschool on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:40AM (#37001517)
One difference I’ve found living in the West and China is that being academically successful often gets you made fun of in the US but adored in China.

There’s quite a lot of anti-intellectualism in the US. Therefore, there’s an equal amount of anti-science.

Meanwhile, every Chinese I’ve ever met is pro-education and thinks highly of science.

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by calf on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:54AM (#37001732)
You should see the look on my parents' HK church friends whenever I unintentionally start talking about science, it's like I said a swear word.
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by jacquesm on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:02PM (#37003522)
I can see some problems with the setting, not necessarily the country.
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by senttoschool on Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:44AM (#37009093)
That actually proves one of my points.

I didn’t want to get into it too much but I wrote that Chinese people are on average, more pro-science because they’re less religious or that their religion does not strongly contradict with science.

I’m guessing your parents’ HK church friends are Christians?

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by calf on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:07AM (#37009714)
Yeah I'm not disagreeing with you at all, it's the Christianity and Hong Kong's post-colonial legacy.

The mainland Chinese social order is secular. The technocratic state, the CCP, had a lot to do with that. I would actually argue that technocracy is a superficial form of scientific culture.

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by jacquesm on Friday August 04, 2023 @02:01PM (#37003516)
I call that the cult of stupidity. It is unfortunately very common where I live.
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