• propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Yes, and after time on RedNote, I believe it’s because of them simply believing what western media says about it, but since they’re not also living in it, they don’t get to also see the negatives.

    • bort [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      3 days ago

      You’re misunderstanding. The infographic is saying that Chinese people consider China a democracy at a higher rate than Westerners consider their own countries democracies.

      In my experience though you’re not entirely wrong; lots of Chinese still romanticise the west in many respects, though I also know many who’ve lived abroad and realised that it’s not as rosy as they had imagined.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        I met a Chinese exchange student at my local college Palestine encampment last year. He was finishing up his masters and was about to go back to China after having been here a few years. He said in China he was a pro-west liberal who thought Marxism was outdated and the party was silly, but after seeing America in such detail he became a dedicated Marxist-Leninist and anti-imperialist who wore a hammer and sickle medallion everywhere and was planning to join the party when he returned. I hope he followed through.

        • Dessalines@lemmy.mlM
          12·
          3 days ago

          Sweet arc. Reminds me of the story Parenti tells about ppl in the soviet bloc hoping that with the fall of the USSR, that they would gain the consumer cornucopia of the west, but get to keep all the social services, job security, and quality of life they had gained through socialism (they didn’t gain the first, and lost the 2nd).

          This comrade got to see first hand the US’s horrible inequality and poverty, and that the chinese marxists were correct.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      Either you’re misunderstanding this or I’m misunderstanding you. This is showing that people in China believe the PRC is very democratic and therefore they support it, not that they envy western “democracy”. The Chinese people enjoy far more democracy than people in the imperial core.