• Dinkdink [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I'm trying to give everyone a relatable example. If you don't know about the cycle of the center exerting control, crushing the provinces until they rebel, and the whole thing starting over again, I can't help you.

    If they were allowed to vote on it (Chinese have never been allowed to vote) the country absolutely would break up. The only thing keeping the country together is a steady drumbeat of programming and the People's Armed Police.

      • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I live in China and speak Chinese. I've read Xi Jinping in the original. You?

        • skeletorsass [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Yes, Nanjing. I am Chinese. What you are describing is absurd and a waste of time.

          • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            You should know, Chinese people taught me these things. Of course, they didn't speak English, so that very likely biases you.

              • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                You're not aware that Chinese people who live in big cities and speak English are very different from the mass of laobaixing? Especially you, who writes English at a native level. I've known IELTS high-level graduates who still use awkward constructions like "I am a Chinese"" instead of "I am Chinese". One didn't know who Santa Claus was.

      • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I've made quite a study of Chinese history, in fact.

        aren’t exactly gagging at the bit to balkanise.

        The chuds are openly talking about civil war and itching to open fire on anyone they don't like. You haven't noticed this?

          • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            China of 100 years ago isn’t the same as China of today.

            Sure it is. China hasn't appreciably changed in thousands of years. You can read accounts from the Tang dynasty and recognize them in the China of today.

            Have you taken the HSK? What level did you pass? The old or the new one?