[deepVoid]

> When Chinese students step outside of China to study, they are struggling to adapt to a new education system, and are frequently confronted — in class, in daily life, and online — with assumptions that they have been “brainwashed by the Chinese government.” It makes some feel attacked and reaffirms what they were taught in China: The West is biased and hostile.

Many Chinese people in the West still read the same propaganda, hang out with the Chinese people. It is difficult for them to be un-brainwashed.

[seppin]

> It makes some feel attacked and reaffirms what they were taught in China: The West is biased and hostile.

It's easier when you want to believe something, to believe it. No matter what the source is.

[seanmcdirmid]

This. Much of the media consumed is shaped more by the biases of their viewers, less the other way around.

[dclowd9901]

I was going to say, according to the author's own words, it would be very reasonable to describe him as having been brainwashed.