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I ask because on basically every post of a video where no Chinese person is doing something bad, people immediately rush to calling it staged; Chinese person provides a needy person a meal? Staged. Chinese person offers meals for free to earthquake rescue workers? Staged. Chinese person helps someone across a road? Staged. Uyghur just operating a stand being asked by an American tourist if they're living peacefully (to which they laugh and say yes)? Staged, or even saying yes because their lives depend on it.

Chinese person being racist however? Real. Chinese person yelling at someone and being rude? Real.

You know that racist trope people have of folks in Africa all believing in different superstitions or something? That's the average American; the bizarre folklore we've created of people around the world would make Tolkien's work seem like low fantasy.

Is it perhaps that white savior movies have rotted people's brains, and they're all imagining their normalcy would make them superior beings in foreign countries?

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hi, I'm a white person living in China There's literally a large team of actors that follow me everywhere.

People incorrectly think that Belt and Road was about trains, whereas the reality was that 2% of the Chinese population is tasked with providing positive social media for tourists and English teachers.

I managed to escape my Chinese handlers once. The photo I took will shock you.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's also the additional 2% of the population who are Secret Police who follow around every individual actor to make sure they're doing their job, and the next 2% of the population who are Secret Secret Police tasked with following the Secret Police around to make sure they're doing their job. Sometimes the actors, Secret Police and Secret Secret Police get their wires crossed and you see them walking in circles like ants in a death spiral

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Really, the secret police are job creators if you think about it