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objectively better than just about any other place
I wish my country became more like China over the next decade
but but have you considered the abstract values????
They’ve been around, as a civilization, for over 5,000 years. I’d like to think you don’t make it that long without doing a thing or 2 right.
Eh. The US has been around just as long as a civilization. If the Chinese get to claim credit for the radically different ancient predecessors to modern China, then the US can claim decent from both the ancient Native American civilizations as well as the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that are ultimately the predecessors of many countries such as the US.
The US is a settler colonial project that carried out an extermination campaign and genocide of hundreds of native tribes, and stole their land. Settlers have no right to claim descent from the people (they're still) trying to exterminate. Unlike South America, there's not even a genetic heritage; the US colonialist just killed every indigenous person they found, or put them into reservations.
Neither the PRC nor most ME countries are settler ones. The number of settler-colonial countries is tiny: the US, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, are the main ones.
Kinda sounds more like you need other countries' history to be described in the same terms that apply to the United States, so you can dismiss it all as "just the way the world is" without having to examine how that history informs our present.
Your list should include pros and cons. Which is your country?
The education is also non-competitive and crippling for the not-so-gifted students, yes?
Because I don't hear about many student suicides (specifically due to stress and pressure) outside of the Asian countries.
Selective hearing, racist edition
incredible
https://lemmy.ml/post/46354189
I specifically mentioned Asian and including China.
So...Please give me now a comparison to western societies like EU countries (or US if it easier to find statistics)
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You can just admit to being wrong without trying to insult everyone that was correct.