Harvard professor talks about China
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From shanghaiist:
“It is one of our comforting and enduring myths that as China becomes more modern and sophisticated, more like us, it will come to adopt our values. I’m not sure it’s going to be like that. [Chinese students during the Lhasa riots in 2008] were very hostile to the criticism of the Chinese government. The key insight for me is that rather than pro-democracy feelings increasing as China grows economically, it is a radical, shrill nationalism that is emerging. There is an enthusiastic embrace of the economic benefits of the market but resentment of Western cultural hegemony. The attitude is: if we make it economically, we don’t have to kowtow to you culturally."
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That would reflect what I've seen since I came to China, but I would add that the reason that China may not make it economically is because they won't "kowtow" culturally. Specifically, they won't adopt any kind of transparency in government or finance.
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>mattsm84 wrote:
No kidding!
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I think the future politics of China will be an anarchistic form of corrupt libertarianism where violence will be followed by laughter at the victims.
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You're an ass.
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i saw this one he also talked about how the Chinese see them selves as the Han very good talk.
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i saw this one he also talked about how the Chinese see them selves as the Han very good talk.