Tomorrow is gonna be nuts...Flurry of unconfirmed rumorsAll 14nm and below tools banned from China?All NAND/DRAM tools banned from China?All high end AI chips banned from China?High end DC CPUs like Genoa banned from China?All China fabless firms banned from EUV nodes?— Dylan Patel (@dylan522p) October 7, 2022
One of several articles on this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-china-supercomputers-idCAKBN2R223O
During the Cultural Revolution, university graduates were sent to remote agricultural regions to work alongside the rural peasantry so that the educated class would not forget what it's like to work as one of the proletariat.
If and when China starts accepting refugees from the West, it ought to consider using a similar system.
Your overall point is still correct though. A little hard labor is good for the soul, and we should seek to divide necessary manual labor up somewhat fairly and evenly. Obviously those who are elderly or disabled would be partially exempt, but I still think it’s good to mix up the remnants of the classes if you are trying to create a classless society
Yeah in Beijing and Shanghai there are streaks of elitism which were (maybe still are) pretty bad. It's the same kind of lib-brained elitism that you'd find in New Yorkers talking shit about Kentuckyans. Calling someone a 农村人 is contextually like calling someone a hick or a hillbilly.
I think it's starting to get better now because there's a trend of young people on social media blogging about their experiences leaving city jobs and getting into farming getting big followings, but you know how these things are - it takes a long time to get over prejudices.
As for whether or not it's a slur, I think it's one of those words that is contextually positive, neutral, or a slur. Chinese is a much higher context language than English, but the best analogy I can think of is "black". There's a big difference between "she is black" and "of course she stole that, she is black."
During the Cultural Revolution, university graduates were sent to remote agricultural regions to work alongside the rural peasantry so that the educated class would not forget what it's like to work as one of the proletariat.
If and when China starts accepting refugees from the West, it ought to consider using a similar system.
Peasantry aren’t proletariat
You're right Comrade, sorry for my early morning brain fart.
Your overall point is still correct though. A little hard labor is good for the soul, and we should seek to divide necessary manual labor up somewhat fairly and evenly. Obviously those who are elderly or disabled would be partially exempt, but I still think it’s good to mix up the remnants of the classes if you are trying to create a classless society
In parts of China (like Beijing) the word for farmer is a pretty bad slur* (maybe they need another reminder)
* I don’t speak Chinese so comrades please correct me or weigh in
Yeah in Beijing and Shanghai there are streaks of elitism which were (maybe still are) pretty bad. It's the same kind of lib-brained elitism that you'd find in New Yorkers talking shit about Kentuckyans. Calling someone a 农村人 is contextually like calling someone a hick or a hillbilly.
I think it's starting to get better now because there's a trend of young people on social media blogging about their experiences leaving city jobs and getting into farming getting big followings, but you know how these things are - it takes a long time to get over prejudices.
As for whether or not it's a slur, I think it's one of those words that is contextually positive, neutral, or a slur. Chinese is a much higher context language than English, but the best analogy I can think of is "black". There's a big difference between "she is black" and "of course she stole that, she is black."