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JimTheMan • today at 3:24 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I mean, have you worked with the Chinese? They're not like that at all.

They love money so much, you could swear they're American!


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minraws • today at 3:27 AM

Everyone loves money but socially and culturally China is a lot more closed compared to US, much more so than what people are used to atleast.

US was arguably the most open country on the planet in terms of acceptance of ideas and cultural diversity especially in 20th century.

But I also don't think people need to be very worried but still we haven't had monocultures on the top or close to the top of power hierarchy for several decades so it's going to be uncomfortable for a lot of people.

For instance China is heavily censorious of LGBTQ and very likely against the Idea they haven't banned it outright yet thankfully. But then again lots of countries are in a similar boat.

But the biggest difference is China can easily back slide without possiblity of return on any metric because it's not a democracy.

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