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Your assumption that excessive alcohol consumption is stigmatized in China is wrong. Drinking is very common and not done in hiding.
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> It was also unclear whether alcohol is linked to other types of cancer, including lung and stomach cancers.
If smoking was a confounding variable, shouldn't we see an increased risk of smoking-related cancers?
Two genetic variants that alter alcohol metabolism, ALDH2-rs671 and ADH1B-rs1229984, can modify oesophageal cancer risk associated with alcohol consumption in East Asians, but their associations with other cancers remain uncertain.
Would anyone really self report excessive alcohol consumption accurately in China? Isn’t there an incentive to lie to bolster your social credit? Or are there guarantees in China against medical surveillance?
Yeah, but it was expected to hear some "China bad" stuff in a thread about Chinese people - not even the government or the system. Hence, I dont believe you at all when you say "Government bad, people okay".
Would anyone really self report excessive alcohol consumption accurately in China? Isn’t there an incentive to lie to bolster your social credit? Or are there guarantees in China against medical surveillance?
I think your question has some very specific variables that aren't really helpful. How about making it more generic: Would people really self report excessive alcohol comsumption accurately?
This would not happen elsewhere, and thus, is a valid question. Would this effect, uniquely, reported numbers in China?
Thus the parent post made a sensible logical point.
Would anyone really self report excessive alcohol consumption accurately in China? Isn’t there an incentive to lie to bolster your social credit? Or are there guarantees in China against medical surveillance?
Your assumption that excessive alcohol consumption is stigmatized in China is wrong. Drinking is very common and not done in hiding.
Drinking != excessive consumption. Telling us drinking is not stigmatized, is meaningless.
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Is this even a serious question/discussion? I am not pro-china but I can't help but notice the us-induced narrative to just hate-spam russia and china as totalitarian states purely based on the socioeconomic differences. This meme isn't even funny.
Sorry for not being clear about that.
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I think your question has some very specific variables that aren't really helpful. How about making it more generic: Would people really self report excessive alcohol comsumption accurately?
Talking privately to researchers, in China, may mean the government knows, which may effect social credit. This would not happen elsewhere, and thus, is a valid question. Would this effect, uniquely, reported numbers in China? Thus the parent post made a sensible logical point.
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Is this even a serious question/discussion? I am not pro-china but I can't help but notice the us-induced narrative to just hate-spam russia and china as totalitarian states purely based on the socioeconomic differences. This meme isn't even funny.
I am not claiming that the CCP meetings are full of drunks, I am just asking how far "excessive" alcohol consumption is supposedly accepted behavior. I would be seriously surprised if that was accepted. Sorry for not being clear about that.
Would anyone really self report excessive alcohol consumption accurately in China? Isn’t there an incentive to lie to bolster your social credit? Or are there guarantees in China against medical surveillance?
Implying that people here are so happy and proud of being alcoholics... Yeah, but it was expected to hear some "China bad" stuff in a thread about Chinese people - not even the government or the system. Hence, I dont believe you at all when you say "Government bad, people okay".
The social credit system is somewhat unique, and it is not a stretch to say drinking to excess may not be regarded as a favorable characteristic. This may disincentivize individuals from reporting the behavior. I am similarly curious, and fail to see how this is derogatory to either the Chinese government or its people.