“UK News Website of the Year 2024”
Wishful thinking is free, I suppose.
This pathology permeates from the inside out, and it’s not just directed at China; it’s their attitude toward the entire world. However, only China refuses to buy into it, and their distortion of China is stronger than in other areas. China is increasingly able to view the U.S. from an equal footing and recognize this abnormality. It’s like the famous fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” where the two con men weave invisible clothes while other countries pretend to follow America’s lead in running around naked.
This is one of the most idiotic articles I have ever read in my life, and it also kind of feels racist to me. Why is learning Mandarin symbolic of being submissive rather than being considerate/respectful to a person and people you have a close relationship with? What happens if Xi Jinping learns Russian? The border issue just seems silly to me, why would China go through the effort to forcefully take this land? What is the strategy here? The article seems to focus more on war capabilities rather than why it would be worth it in the first place. To me, if China did do what this article wants then it would just benefit the West, since their two most opposing powers would be fighting each other which leaves room for the West to wreak havoc.
Why is learning Mandarin symbolic of being submissive rather than being considerate/respectful to a person and people you have a close relationship with?
I wonder if it is their perspective too that learning English is subordination to the West. In many ways a validation of what Frantz Fanon was saying:
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards. Black Skin, White Masks
This is very interesting, thank you for sharing. I guess if we are using English as an example, since it is the best one due to how widespread it is. English wasn’t really learned in the way Mandarin is learned by Putin’s family members; by that I mean English was forced onto the colonized people, which would be a form of subordination. Criticizing the learning of Mandarin as submissive comes across as projection.
The piece inadvertently provides us with a profound insight into Western mentality, unveiling an inherent inability to view itself as equal among diverse cultures and fostering a reluctance to contemplate equitable partnerships where one party does not assert its dominance over the other. Any perceived vulnerability must swiftly exploited for fleeting gains, reflecting a myopic shortsightedness that undermines potential long-term benefits and mutual growth.
I don’t think the west is as inherently short-sighted as we think. It’s sociopathic on purpose.
It is sociopathic, but I do think that a lot of the decision making is demonstrably short sighted. And that’s precisely why the west finds itself in its current predicament.
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