Have you seen Chinese students walking around. They almost seem like a different species. Never smiling, always looking like the sat on a cactus. And when you talk to one, it’s like they are not real people. Like avatars of humans, soulless behind the eyes. 80 years of communism, humanism and no God will do that, hollow you out.
The Chinese people I have known were not like that.
I told a Chinese woman that when I was a little girl, my stepfather would tell me to eat all of the food on my plate because children were starving in China.
She thought that was such a wild and funny story that she immediately called her daughter to share it.
(I never dared say to Dad that I didn’t see how what I ate affected the kids in China.)