Giokielicious
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This Chinese viral video talking about the new concept “kill line” is really worth to have a look. I posted it below with translation (auto translation tho). For decades, Chinese media and lots of Chinese scholars presented America as a kind of paradise — wealthy, civilized, advanced, human rights, land full of opportunities blah blah blah. Now that image has shattered, we saw what average Americans lives are like, and we watched news about what is actually going without filters. The Americans are actually caught in an endless, backward-moving race. The ground pulls them back, obstacles everywhere: healthcare costs, education debt, retirement insecurity, insurance issues, natural disasters... No matter how hard they push, progress feels minimal. It's exhausting. So capitalism doesn’t look so fancy anymore. It was trendy for Chinese young people to “rebel” against socialism, but now it just don’t do the magic no more. However, this kill like talk does has it positive side, I think it actually paves the way for more straightforward conversations between Chinese and American people. More Chinese people actually started to like American average people instead of seeing them as all spoiled first world era. No more idealization. Years ago, we Chinese heard stories like "even American homeless people play piano" and thought, wow, what an educated and cultured society. Later we realized much of it was exaggerated and dismissed it. But now it makes sense: many of those homeless individuals with talents were once middle-class, simply pushed off the ladder by the system. For lots of Chinese people that are now introduced to the “kill line”, the old saying started to make sense: America isn't really a country — it's a business. Everything is viewed through the lens of profit — maximizing gains, avoiding burdens, taking no responsibility. This is capitalism in its most extreme form.
Giokielicious92,932 次观看 • 4 个月前
People need to understand what happened in this video is not some history in the past, it happened when my generation’s growing up. people in their early 30s in China grew up thinking having a car is rich while looking up to the west to seeing the west as equal not superior
Giokielicious26,988 次观看 • 1 年前