Perhaps, but I’m trying to defend this timeline lol.

Because I really do not like the “I get stuck in PRC” timeline, even just the thought of it makes me have an existential crisis.

I like my Youtube, and video games, and the open internet (open for now at least, who knows about the future 🤷‍♂️), the idea of living behind that firewall sounds kinda depressing (VPNs are not exactly reliable).

But the again with something as drastic as one country nuking another… China might not even have any internet at all, and become like North Korea…

Like what do people even do for fun in that timeline? Play with rocks? 😭

No thanks, I like to keep the ability to bingewatch my “Non-Approved” “Counterrevolutionary” western media. (I mean like… did you hear, they limit video games to 1 hour for those under 18, like bruh wtf, anything fun is banned)

“External Threats” and “National Security” are reasons why hardliners get into power…

As someone who was fortunate enough to leave the regime, if that insane “nuking China” thing happened, PRC would never have opened the borders (or if it ever did, it’d be very controlled and not as open as current timeline) and it’d be another North Korea situation (but more massive) and mass poverty and mass starvations well into the 21st century.

This timeline, Chinese people can actually leave. I mean my family is one of the many that left.

So… If that nuking happened, then do you think PRC would still allow people to leave in that timeline?

That timeline would have a lot of Anti-Chinese sentinment (as in hatred of Chinese People, not just the government)

There’s no chance I can even get in the US, I mean just look at how the west closed borders to Russians… so now Russian dissidents have a hard time trying to escape.

I mean perhaps it’d satisfy a lot of US White nationalists, but there’d be a Billion people suffering… that’s not good…

But disclaimer: I’m Chinese American so perhaps I’m biased and have sympathy for people in China that have nothing to do with the CCP.

perhaps striking while China was weak could have been fortuitous

If China had gotten nuked by foreign powers, China today would’ve been more authoritarian, people would be a lot more nationalistic, and poverty would’ve been a lot worse, which in turn means that CCP would’ve cracked-down even harder on any dissent in order to try to maintain their grip on power and probably do more executions instead of today where they merely detain you or make you do those forced apologies

Being anti-CCP is fine, but don’t forget about the civillians under their jurisdiction that are innocent to geopolitical conflicts.

As a Chinese American, I kinda WTFed at it when I first read the history about it online 💀

I’m glad nowadays we have more countries with nukes to balance each other…

Can you imagine if only ONE country has nukes… We’d be at the mercy of either: USA or France or Russia or UK (British Imperialism flashbacks 👀) or CCP-Controlled PRC…

More nukes makes a more peaceful ironically lol

I mean as a 2nd child born in violation of the policy… 👀

(I heard some stories about kids being kidnapped by state-sponsored people and trafficked to get them forcibly “adopted” to prospective parents somewhere else, and also the whole international adoption thingy, cuz they targed families that had more than one child… allegedly… who even knows for sure…)

Edit: But nowadays, ironically, they have population crisis… 👀

China is a big place. Saturation with security cameras is an urban thing.

Yea that incident was in Guangzhou, I assume nowadays its probably filled with surveillance cameras.

Also, something I’ve learned in America is that people make a lot of noise about keeping kids safe, but that’s all just smoke. I can’t speak for China

China might not have guns and mass shootings, but domestic abuse is an issue that the law doesn’t really touch on, especially is its more covert like verbal abuse or even physical violence if it didn’t cause serious harm…

Especially if its not a spouse-on-spouse thing but its a parent against a child…

Like there are things that would trigger a CPS investigation in the US that in China they wouldn’t do much about, cuz its just treated as “discipline” and its “family matters” and legal system isn’t touching this.

I think my parents fear of CPS is why once we arrived in the US, they stopped with their um… ahem “disciplinary actions” against me.

(Also maybe cuz I got older and can sort of fight back??? Maybe 🤷‍♂️)

(I actually cant even remember a specific instance of my mom hitting me anymore… must been a repressed memeory by now, but I’m pretty sure it happened)

Also teachers have meter sticks to hit kida with…

Okay its not a beating, but I remember like you had to put your hands out and then the teacher slapped your hands with the ruler…

Dont remember what for… maybe “behavior problems”?

Or perhaps poor grade is also one of the things… idk, memory in 1st and 2nd grade isn’t exactly flawless…

But corporal punishment seems very acceptable in China…

Saw a movie recently about Taiwan’s education system (not the main story, but the backdrop of the plot, main movie was about Taiwanese Americans moving back to Taiwan), and in the plot, the parents encouraged the teacher to use the ruler thing as a form of discipline… wtf… that was actually the thing that jogged my memories…

(The point being, same culture, even being politically divided and with a different government, the culture is same… adults just get to do whatever as “discipline”)

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xD

Since I got summoned by a @ , gonna infodump cuz why not lol:

Funny enough now that my mom went to China for a 1-month visit, and now it’s like 1 week in and I feel so sad about her absense from home…

The house feels so much more depressing… :/

I mean I guess this is a sort of “trial run” of what her eventual death would feel like…

Like… now I can call her… cuz now its just separated by an ocean, in this era, we have instantaneous communications…

someday it’ll be separated by a barrier between the mortal realm and… whatever world beyond… the afterlife… spirit realm… or whatever…

I guess this is what my mom meant when she said she wanted to get married give birth to children… this same emptiness that I’m feeling…

I might never find love in life :(

Funny enough my older brother is also in China right now because mom pressured him to do marriage 🤣

(My parents are arranged marriage btw)

Welp its kinda awkward for a days old post to finally show up in Piefed instances as “3 Hours Ago”… 😶‍🌫️

Yea this isn’t the first time with sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world federation issues…

Honestly I feel like it the universe’s sign to me that: it’s time for migration to Piefed… 🤷‍♂️

“Please list everything bad about this world”

Bruh, there’s already enough doomerism in c/worldnews, no need for that energy in c/asklemmy

my country

OUR Country*

Bernie Intensifies

I went to apply for a US Passport…

Then I remembered that a lot of immigrants from Fujian are undocumented…

And like… I have been in highschool with these kids whose parents are from Fujian…

And I kinda just felt sad…

Cuz I’m also from China, but I got lucky and got citizenship… and they didn’t…

So I just cried… :/

Cuz I can imagine what it’s like with the uncertaintly

I mean… I kinda feel the same in some ways… I mean with current political atmosphere… who even knows anymore… I could get denaturalized and end up the same as them anyways…

the Planet*

(US is not the only country is the world where people are suffering, less US-Centralism pls)

Yes absolutely.

If I had never immigrated to the US and remained in China, I’d probably be much less accepting of multiculturalism and less comfortable being around people of different races, and also probably less okay with LGBTQ

Like… I doubt I’d be openly hateful… but in that environment, I’d never have the opportunity to be exposed to people to of different skin colors, and the culture would’ve reinforced the idea that: " LGBTQ = ‘weird’ "

I’m kinda obsessed with this concept of these two timelines.

There’s this timeline of “American Me” vs that other timeline of “Chinese Me”… of what could’ve been

Like… imagine us two meeting… lmao

Or perhaps there’s another version of me that arrived in the US even mych earlier… like at 1 year old or something (contrast with current timeline at 8 years old)…

That version of me would probably be even more “American” and I’d perhaps lose a lot of my “Chinese” part of my identity…

The trajectory of life… from just the difference of one visa stamp…

I mean this obsession of alt-timelines is causing me so much existential crisis lol…

Suspiciously high number of murdered police for a peaceful protest, eh?

Oh tankies are pro-cop now?

You can vote overseas…

Its actually ironic that people in Puerto Rico don’t even get representation but if you last lived in the 50 states and then go abroad, you can mail your vote.

Just use an app that force your screen to flip upside down (Android allows this)

Every time I hear the word “import” when referring to Human Beings, its always some far right xenophobic white dude complaining about “oMg tHeSe dIrTy iNdIaNs aRe tAkInG oVeR!”

it’s trading one capitalist place for another.

Funny enough, my family also did this, but reversed.

I was born in China and we moved to the US when I was 8 years old… my parents found more success here… I mean, not at the very beginning, but eventually… now they have more income and more time off vs back in China…

I can’t speak for everyone, but in my specific case, my mom had to work long hours and did not have the 1.5 overtime bonus she has now and have less breaks vs now, and then dad… well… he didn’t really have a stable job, spend a lot of the time looking for jobs…

social programs, healthcare, and such.

Not according to my parents. My parents were kinda shocked how much welfare American Citizens have, and at one point, my parents claimed that “Americans are lazy and just wanna not go to work and live on welfare”.

And in terms of housing, okay when we were in Brooklyn, NYC, that place was so expensive it was impossible buy a house, so they bount a house in Philly moved our family here… where we’ve been living ever since…

Okay it was like approximately $100k around 2014 but this place has very shitty schools :/

But both the Brooklyn place we rented and this house in this ghetto place called Philly, both looked nicer than the neighborhood where used to live in Guangzhou, a CITY btw… (okay to be fair there are a bunch of problems in this current Philly house but like that’s just parents being frugal lol)

As for the healthcare part… eh… my mom really don’t trust doctors in China (well she also doesn’t really trust healthcare people overall, but especially those in China). Mom told me about a lot of situations that she felt like she got scammed, I can’t remember all the anecdotes she told me, but at one point, she told me how she thought the doctors are trying to get her to do a C-Section just to make more money (cuz surgery = more expensive bill), she thought it was unnecessary and wanted to give a natural birth, but she doesn’t wanna risk it being that, in fact, the doctors told the truth and then us dying, so she just gave in and went along with the C-Section. And she told me they want to overprescribe medicine so they get a kickback from the pharma companies. Bascially, my parents say US quality of healthcare is better for those who can afford it. But even then, because of their experiences living in China for so long, they just became so skeptical of the medical industry which is why mom really don’t want me seeking help for depression, cuz: “yOu dOn’t hAvE dEpReSsIoN, tHe dOctOrs aRe jUsT lYinG tO yOu!” cuz she thinks they are just trying to get paid fot overdiagnosing people… so because of their experience in China, they now kinda grew skeptical of medical professionals overall…

Cuz there’s just so much sketchy stuff and scams in China, and on top of their own experiences, warnings about scams are always circulating throughout their WeChat.

So it can look cheaper… but you risk running into corrupt doctors because corruption is a very big thing there, I mean they could easily bribe their way into having a medical license when they shouldn’t be qualified…