maodun

no it is not demeaning, 华人 is like the widest net/semantic space with regard to "chinese person" (eg anyone who has chinese heritage, encompassing of any chinese ethnicity not just han, also encompassing any nationality). it's standard/politically correct to say "海外华人" for overseas chinese

I don't speak canto but this comes close? 竹升 afaik sometimes it's used derogatorily (unsure of slur status) but i've also heard there's some like reclamation of it idk (also I see that wikipedia thinks that "banana" is a Thing but I've literally never seen anyone call a bobalib "香蕉人" irl)

also funny they think lemmygrad is/should be representative of lemmy as a whole and wish to become mainstream???

Canadian Born Chinese not china-born chinese (would just denote as chinese national or former chinese national)

when it's people you think should be your friends it's incredibly isolating. In the last 5ish years of increased sinophobia ive had both trans and asian friends who are "left" of democrats try to get me to affirm sinophobic stances (eg through jokes) and the sad thing is, this is the norm. most westerners can expect ABCs (and CBCs) to pop out with some assimilatory "I'm one of the good ones" signifier.

anyway as an ABC I've definitely noticed that the torchbearer of sinophobia is other chinese diaspora. I loathe it so much, but it's definitely an avenue towards personal success, particular in careers related to media, writing, art, etc. white society audiences crave to hear their sinophobia affirmed through a chinese face. I dont even have to scrape the gunk on the bottom of the barrel, the whole "container" is just infested, like these are just two randos I found on goodreads (diaspora writing in english on topic of china) (1) (2). on the flip side, if you don't give them that (sinophobia affirmed through a chinese face), and stay quiet or ambivalent on the topic of the mainland, well that's the hard road of proving yourself through pure merit. on the worst end, if you as a chinese diaspora dare say that communist china is actually good for chinese people, you don't get a platform, you get brushed aside and more or less forgotten. han suyin (who published in english) is out of print since the cold war ended and the nonaligned movement evaporated. meanwhile pearl s buck's the good earth is still being taught as required reading in american high schools.

yall have no idea how mad I was that I couldn't see 30000 miles from Chang'an on big screen theaters when it came out because no theaters in the US was putting it on, at least in my area. tbh I was surprised that Nezha 2 is getting any screens in the US now

iceberg moment or whatever but the first movie had insufferable fandom 🫠

movie itself was fine, both 2 and 1 have some kid-level basically fart jokes or whatever, overall agree that the direction had/has younger target audience

1/ unsure for every case

2/ don't have enough data but just stating the trend: the top ranked schools are all public, just check out the rankings, tip top ones are all public nonprofit.

3/ I'm not super familiar with the entire landscape to know if all public schools are strictly better or not; I'm just aware of general public opinion that private schools are more expensive and more mid. Generally, less prestigious. However, at least as a personal observation, wealthier parents tend to choose to find a way for their kid to go to an overseas university if they don't like the private schooling options after midling gaokao results. (as american born chinese these wealthy "princess complex" international classmates colored my impression of mainlanders for a while during my uni years... i suppose that's both to my own and their detriment :/ it is what it is)

iirc rural area hukou students and ethnic minority students get boosted points for gaokao also, there's definitely affirmative action in that regard.

edit: clarity

the gaokao competitiveness for top schooling actually is inverted (monetarily speaking) compared to the west. The top schools are usually publicly funded and have lower tuitions compared to private schools. (that said gaokao is very intense, I had a cousin who spent a whole year to redo it to try to get better placement)

"this trifold only folds twice! false advertising" really kills me lmfao

哪吒！！！！！！！！！

Dongfeng missile program 🫡

Don't know if we'll be seeing chinese scientists in US under house arrest or worse again (hopefully not) but, for those unfamiliar: 钱学森 Qian Xuesen co-founded NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1940s), later got the attention of McCarthy-ites and his family was subject to basically house arrest and surveillance for 5 years (deferred deportation), went back to China and led a bunch of programs and never looked back, became known as the "Father of Chinese Rocketry".

the US attracted brain drain candidates for decades now, but would soon rather let anticommunism and racism get the better of them again and repeat the same "mistakes" and shoot themselves in the foot... honestly better for the Chinese people who can and did return as sinophobia ramps up (and probably will continue apace again in Trump's 2nd term, not that the western media didn't try to elevate sinophobia during Biden's term between Pelosi's flight to Taiwan, weather balloon, accusing zoo of fielding a man in a suit as a sunbear, etc). Space Race then, chips/AI now (article mentions Mr Sun returned during Trump's first term, motivated by the racist 'China Initiative')