Posted on 02/01/2019 4:15:04 AM PST by vannrox
China is a land where society changes every couple of months. You leave a town, and come back in six months and all the roads are different. New buildings are everywhere. The kids are using new slang, and new apps and everything is radically different. It’s kind of unnerving.
Foreigners come to China, and are amazed at how different it is compared to their expectations. Locals are totally immersed in the change and look outside China with wonder at how could anyone stand to live elsewhere where everything changes at a glacial pace. China is rushing head-first into the new year… yikes!
Here are just some microvideos taken around China by normal people. All of the videos were filmed and collected in January 2019. By watching the microvideos you might get a mere hint at what is going on at the “middle kingdom”. Enjoy.
This first one is showing one of the many, many…many Chinese soap operas being filmed. The Chinese love these historical dramas, and really, who can blame them. It is sort of like the “King of Thrones” on steroids. China is a nation with centuries of fighting, court intrigue, romances and horror. It’s no wonder that the soap operas are so popular.
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What’s going on here? I wonder. Is she racing to save her loved one? Is she fleeing from the army that will destroy her village? Is she on the way to deliver the magic sword to the hero? Who knows?
Here is BlackPink which is a very popular group in China these days.
Over the last few years the C-Pop, K-Pop, J-Pop and T-Pop have all kind of merged into a kind of standardized popularity format, all
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Why?
What's stopping you from posting it here?
Does your "editorial staff" object?
chinese agitprop behind a fake identity. Nothing more to see here.
I gotta agree with you on teh agitprop and/or cluelessness—from the poster’s FR home page:
“It might be called communist, but it is actually a very Conservative nation that has implemented Free-Market policies that are very American Conservative in nature. Mr. Deng tried to copy Mr. Ronald Reagan. The communists in Beijing fought him every step. However, they gave him a chance. They allowed him to try to implement it on a “small” scale. They gave him Shenzhen to try to implement his policies.
Today, China is what it is precisely because they implemented Ronald Reagan economic policies. You will never, ever hear the liberal media admit that.
Most posters on FR tend to repost articles for “experts” on China, many of which hasn’t been to China in decades, if at all. It’s all nonsense. And, I do mean NONSENSE.”
I work with a lady from China. She has no concept of Communism. If anything, she thinks the US is too restrictive on business.
Why hold back from the hard questions? Ask her about religion and freedom thereof.
Another interesting article from that blog about the growing oppression in the US compared to Chinese life:
https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/liberty-and-freedom-in-china/
Deng opened up the economy as much as he could, which wasn’t as much as he wanted to.
Most of the leaders in China today are from Mao’s “lost generation”. The generation that has much less education than the students of today.
Xi is ramping up the communist rhetoric again. Mao is pictured on every piece of Chinese money, his picture is everywhere and he is thought of as the greatest Chinese leader.
I watch YouTube videos made by expats actually living there. Some of it is sadly funny and some is disheartening and some just sickly sad.
There are videos about the ghost cities, cities that are built but not lived in and falling down in five years.
There are even some showing people drinking dogs milk, straight from the teat. These are hard to find but out there.
Those “experts” need to get outside of the first tier cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou) and into the third tier cities to see how the “little people” live.
The Chinese people spend more time than we do figuring ways around government edicts.
I would like to visit just for the hell of it. No way I would live there.
Anyone wanting to see the Chinese culture that westerners think of would be better off visiting Taiwan. Mao destroyed Chinese culture on the mainland.
They were oppressively authoritarian, state-owned and controlled, thieves all along.
There was never some liberal Reagan democracy over there.
IIRC these posts, such as a recent blog post claiming that the average Chinese citizens lives in a new luxury apartment tower, were posted under the Freeper name of Metallicman.
Now somehow another long-running Freeper account is taking credit for this agitprop?
Here! Here!
It’s even more night-day in China between the big cities and outside them as it is Liberal-Conservative here in the US between the coasts/major metros and the heartland.
Base survival in the China hinterlands. Corruption is worse. People are a commodity to be used. Freedom is limited.
There are good people in China, of course and the history and base culture is very interesting; but I’m glad I haven’t had to go back in a few years.
That’s in the cities, in the countryside, where still most of the population lives, things haven’t changed all that much.
I want one of those girls changing tires in a miniskirt..on her way home to make my sandwich..
She became a Christian when she got here. Most Chinese people who become Christians in the US do so because they had a Christian relative in China.
Churches in China are like conservative churches in liberal cities in the US. You can be there so long as you don’t draw too much attention to yourself.
Yeah, Deng knew he had to grow the economy somehow so he did what the party would let him. Tiananmen Square squashed any idea of freedom pretty effectively.
I had a discussion with another long timer, join date of1998, on that luxury house thread. They were pretty adamant that things are much better in China than we think.
I know just enough to know that is pure bunkum.
Where are the China lovers coming from? I just don’t get it.
Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want
They can have a big democracy cakewalk
Right through the middle of Tiananmen Square
And it won’t make a lick of difference
Because we’ve got the bombs, OK?
John Wayne’s not dead, he’s frozen
And as soon as we find a cure for cancer
We’re gonna thaw out the Duke and he’s gonna be pretty pissed off
You know why
Have you ever taken a cold shower?
Well multiply that by 15 million times
That’s how pissed off the Duke’s gonna be!
I’m gonna get the Duke, and John Cassavetes
And Lee Marvin, and Sam Peckinpah, and a case of whiskey
And drive down to Texas and
Dennis Leary - “A__hole”
Either totally fake accounts or some old American white guy with a small, um, member, who probably married mail order as a result and is now held to some degree hostage in China would be my guess.
I follow a couple of guys on YouTube who have lived in China a decade or more, married Chinese women and one has two kids.
They show the bright lights and fancy parks but they also take to motorcycles and scooters to show the REST of China. They don’t sugarcoat things.
Some of the things they talk about are sickening, like milk dogs, gutter oil, the pollution and the rampant corruption.
They have shown videos of people dining on fine foods and people eating rats just to survive.
They attempt to balance things.
I keep an open mind but the truth is the truth.
That made my morning.
When Leary gets it right he gets it right.
China was essentially on the right path until Xi Jinping arrived - he has stopped the county's progress toward a true market economy and changes to the laws are going to make him very hard to remove. I'm not sure whether to formally label him a "bad guy" or not, but Chinese I speak to privately hate him and consider him a dictator, not a president.
United front propaganda efforts.
Metal Man and vannrox are all straw men posts.
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