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Interestingly, I find myself largely in agreement with Ace on his take on China.
Having the experience of living in Asia, you cannot begin to measure people here by the same standards that you do in the US. The enshrinement of personal freedom and free speech, are not prevalent here. You can call it brainwashing but you would be wrong. Brainwashing assumes that there is something "natural" about the desire for personal liberty... a need to put the self before all else. This is as much a cultural conceit as anything else on offer.
Chinese culture (or much of it) is root in other belief systems such as Taoism and Confucianism. These systems, which place an emphasis on family, ancestors and community before the individual create a different approach to life and an individual's place in it.
Looking at Chinese (or any other culture for that matter) through the gauze of American (Western) culture will only allow you to see yourself.
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