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But Chinese xenophobia is not American style. Sure they lack immigration but so many Chinese travel outside for education and business that they are in fact hyper aware of cultural differences and are upskilling themselves en masse in dealing with various cultures. They bring that skill back home to build companies and sub cultures that ape the best of other countries. This is very unlike US style xenophobia where Mu…
China and most Asian countries are ethonostates. In America, if you suggest that we should be an ethnostate you would not only be called a white supremecist, you'd likely lose your job. In fact, today to even suggest reducing immigration (like Trump) you get called a white supremecist. That is just a reality. So to say that China is less Xenophobic seems crazy to me. If China had the same immigration levels that Amer…
Xenophobia has gradients and degrees:
What I am talking about: The number one reason why the US was able to be so dominant technologically for such a long time was because of multiculturalism and innovation/frontier/development mindset, regardless of a human's background or origin.
That attracted the best foreign minds (including best Chinese minds) out of China and they became US citizens and their children probably do AI at 3-letter institutions for us.
We put the barrier on smart people coming in. They went to the next best place, in China's case, that is China. They are innovating there and their kids are working in 3-letter companies in China. This is freaking the crap out of USA and it shows with so much news about China bothering so many people.
But we are to fault ourselves. Out of xenophobia, not only did we stop encouraging smart people from coming to the US and building businesses or innovation here, we also ourselves don't go out to other countries too much because "we numbah 1".
What you are talking about: Problems with multicultural society. You hold a very narrow view of multicultural societies. America has NEVER been monocultural in its history. It was always anglos vs dutch or protestants vs catholics or Irish hate or Italian hate or Polish hate and of course slavery and xenophobia.
America was a great success until recently, fighting through past civil wars and hard earned unity, until recently where the leaders abandoned our strengths for political gains (and I'm going to call out Republicans here for racism).
China, India and EU are large successes in multicultural societies themselves. People in China might look the same to the western eye but they are all different peoples, from different tribes and different cultures. China has been working to UNITE its peoples, America has been working to DIVIDE its peoples. And I say this as a patriot who hates PRC.
A united America will always be better than mono-China. But China unifying its peoples to interact with the world. And America wants to go back to civil wars era. These two forces together will ensure Murica numbah one is pretty much dead.
An open America will crush the xenophobic China that you refer to. But a xenophobic America has more to lose.