ExcitementMachine
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This quote I found interesting:
Yun Jiang, a China scholar from the Australian National University, recently bemoaned the lack of diversity of opinion on China on ABC's Q+A. She said the foreign policy establishment is still dominated by a European point of view. As she said, the voices are too often "white".
It’s a difference in mindset and cultural traditions and philosophy.
Western culture values the individual, personal freedom and self success
Eastern culture values the society, collective freedom and group success.
It reminded me of an interview i saw with a Western commentator talking about China who said that eventually, once they’re exposed to American culture and media, and the stories of Washington, Jefferson and the founding fathers and their stories of liberty, they’ll fall in and value rights, personal freedoms and individual liberties, and then desire success for self as most important over any loyalty to family, as the West has.
As far as we can see the east hasn’t. An example is anti-vaxxer protests. Even though places like Singapore, the supposed most western Asian country, are supposedly “western style democracies” why aren’t there anti Vax protests? Even if small?
And in Australia, out of interest I watched a video posted about the anti Vax rally in Perth. Approx 10,000 people attended. According to stats 20% of Perth’s population is of Asian heritage, so roughly 2,000 should have been of asian heritage right? I counted perhaps 10?
It seems Eastern values and tradition are triumphing over western individual freedoms, even with “democracy” and western culture. Even Australians of Asian descent value collective societal protection over individual freedom to not choose to be vaccinated.
ALP is more about society, collective freedom and group success.
LNP is more about individual, personal freedom, and self success.
Chinese people are compliant - friendly, lovely people - but as a community in Australia they are friend of the LNP
Personal freedom, self success - and they are the biggest Asian demographic on Aus.
Asian societies also happen to be more unequal.
I hope I'm not being ethnocentric here, or you or whatever, where was I getting at...
You're absolutely right - to be politically correct and even a little racist, or is it?, white people tend to have more extreme beliefs, radicals, and bogans yet somehow societies in the material sense Australia has a very egalitarian society, or had That's starting to change now though, with the LNP government getting voted in again and again - I guess the world and politics is a diverse, nuanced and compicated place - especially Australia.
It will be interesting the direction our country trajects in the coming years.
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