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by koonsolo 2484 days ago
About the "brainwashing", how do most Chinese people look at their government? What about the people of the autonomous regions?

From what I know about the soviet satellite states, most people hated the soviets, but none would be stupid enough to say it in public. I wonder how much is the same in China.
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echevil 2484 days ago
Not the same at all. Most Chinese immigrated outside China in the past two decades or so have pro-China opinions and are becoming more pro-China as they live abroad. Younger generations born after 90s living in China also have more pro-China viewpoints. You'd still hear them critisize the government a lot but what they care about is dramatically different from people in western world. In issues like Hong Kong, it's quite rare to see any mainland Chinese supporting rioters in HK, no matter where they live.
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koonsolo 2483 days ago
Thanks for your reply, but I have a followup question.

> In issues like Hong Kong, it's quite rare to see any mainland Chinese supporting rioters in HK, no matter where they live.

It's clear that Taiwan supports the HK protesters, so I'm wondering what the other regions are really thinking, like Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, etc. Not what they are publicly saying, but what they are thinking privately. To be clear, I have no idea, that's why I'm asking.

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duguxu 2484 days ago
In the comments of the link in my original posts, besides condemning western hypocrisy, there are also a lot of people criticizing the firewall and information control. People express different opinions. I think it's hard to describe how they look in a few words.
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Retric 2484 days ago
It’s a biased sample, but most Chinese people I have had such conversations with deeply fear and hate their government. However, there is some really weird cultural interactions from a western perspective.

What’s generally overlooked is how much stability is lost in such a repressive environment. Being the 1,000th person to riot is dangerous, being the 100 millionth is not. So, things can rapidly switch from everything seeming to be ok to total chaos almost overnight.

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