That’s weird. I’ve been hearing for years, nationalist and optimistic sentiment in China being higher among youths than in the US.
China’s defeated youth: Young Chinese have little hope for the future
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Yes absolutely. Not only that, but they run those stories through various state channels with the intent to propagandize...even to non-US/UK countries, and even via media like shortwave radio. (While also actively jamming other radio stations in that case)
I think the time most recently when I’ve felt this was talking to a young adult from Hong Kong in a hostel in Switzerland last month and he was surprised that the tap water is safe to drink in most of America
Likewise my wife from Mexico was highly suspect of the tap water everywhere we'd go till we went over just how different the tap water situation is in the US compared to Mexico.
Re: China’s defeated youth: Young Chinese have little hope for the future
#33That’s weird. I’ve been hearing for years, nationalist and optimistic sentiment in China being higher among youths than in the US.
> nationalist and optimistic sentiment in China being higher among youths
Just how "AND" are we talking here...one needs to know this to determine how well certain state machinery is working overseas, thanks in advance
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China kinda owns the Western teen ideology via TikTok. They can make them feel defeated at any time.
Western teen and millennials are perfectly capable to do that on their own. It was us millennials that elevated grievance politics and cry-bulling into an art form. From the moment I turned 18 it was continuous barrage of news how fucked up everything is.
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#35Is China writing articles like this about the UK/US? I feel like there's plenty of material.
i have a hunch that the west is doing its best to undermine china. so yeah. here we are.
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Education, however, consistently leads to better outcomes. White collar workers are doing well across the country (US). Forget about tech, accountants, HR professionals, economists, risk analysts, project managers, etc. are all doing well. It's predominantly the un- and under-educated that are being left behind.
Unless of course you took out massive student loans for that education and failed to study an employable skill, those silly 18 year olds, not able to understand the shifting labor market and make sensible 30 year predictions on what skills will be desired.
I was in undergrad during 2008 and I am still pissed that the game was changed on us and we've gotten no assistance. I made very smart choices in 2005 when I was choosing what to do.
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Do they have a very poor social safety net? I’m not disagreeing, but I’ve not seen a single homeless person in China on two separate trips lasting a couple months. I was in big cities and in rural areas. It’s only a personal anecdote but just wondering if your claim is actually objectively true?
“In 2015, it was reported that there are more than 3 million people are homeless in China.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_China Though it’s hard to get accurate figures. “In 2011, there were approximately 2.41 million homeless adults and 179,000 homeless children living in the country.[1] However, one publication estimated that there were one million homeless children in China in 2012.[2][unreliable s…
2.41 million is 0,17% of China's population.
"In 2018, the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated roughly 553,000 homeless people in the United States on a given night,[4] or 0.17 percent of the population." [1]
So, given the best estimates, about the same homelessness rate.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
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#38https://archive.is/1T1eN
Does anyone else have captcha issues with archive.is these days? I just hit an infinite loop of repeated asks to solve a captcha. This is a relatively recent issue. Here's an alternative link from the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230819151745/https://www.econo...
Yes! Thank's for the link!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wildly different scenarios.
Elaborate?
have you read the article? youth unemployment rate is far higher with many, even in STEM degrees, struggling to get any jobs. social pressure to succeed academically is far higher in China and there is nothing equivalent in the US. 996 culture is an insane concept. censorship in entertainment is pervasive. rampant sexism.
its easy to say "oh yea the US has these problems too" but it is 1000x worse in China, and its extremely privileged to even try and say its the same as in the US. The cultures are so incredibly different in every single way.
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#40As Putin once said, "I've created a brilliant scheme to pay you all $2000/mo for basically nothing, and here you are too lazy to show up at the nearest recruitment center"