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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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I don't really understand this point, and find it a bit dramatic and self-flagellating. You say "we shouldn't be allowed to become Chinese citizens" because we stayed in the imperial core rather than "taking the hard and painful but correct action of emigrating". So which is it? Should Westerners be allowed to emigrate to China or should they not? How long do you have to have lived in the West before you forfeit your right to emigrate, as punishment for not having emigrated soon enough?
Not trying to be a dick, I just really fail to see how this kind of defeatism/self-hatred helps anyone.
I don't really know what this means. It has never (in my lifetime at least) been easy to emigrate to China from the West, and it again seems very dramatic and a bit idealist to pretend that what should compel people to emigrate is some kind of socialist ethic and deliberate rejection of money, rather than material realities like standard of living, possibility of education and work etc. all of which will presumably only compel more and more westerners as the West deteriorates and China flourishes.
Maybe I'm taking you literally when you're doing some sort of Disco Elysium style poetry, in which case, carry on.
ah, youre a BE fan. that explains it all
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