[HN Gopher] My Experience Working and Living in China
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       My Experience Working and Living in China
        
       Author : mrintellectual
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-03-10 08:31 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | a139 wrote:
        
       | another_story wrote:
       | > With the current political climate and state of affairs in
       | mainland China, many Gen Z-ers and Millenials (mostly from
       | Guangdong Province), as I consider Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
       | to be separate territories) who hail from mainland China but
       | don't refer to themselves as Chinese, instead calling themselves
       | Cantonese. While some simply wish to preserve personal identity,
       | there are also many who dissociate themselves simply because they
       | believe the rest of China to be inferior.
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       | There's a lot of Chinese stereotypes being trotted out here, but
       | I'll address this one. Those who refer to themselves as Cantonese
       | do not feel superior, but they have generally felt pushed around
       | by Beijing. Guangdong was, and still partially is, the economic
       | powerhouse of China. This has made the North nervous at times.
       | Beijing has continually pushed their political weight around to
       | try and stifle any sense of original Cantonese cultural, from
       | suppressing the language and media to installing leaders that are
       | happy to oblige with these policies. For the most part they have
       | been successful, and it's quite sad. The homogenization of China
       | is seen as necessary to bind the country, but has destroyed the
       | cultural beauty of the country.
        
       | onetokeoverthe wrote:
        
       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | I was hoping this might be Part II of a series we have already
       | started discussing here
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30476052
        
         | mrintellectual wrote:
         | Glad you enjoyed the article. Part II should be coming next
         | week - stay tuned.
        
       | arisAlexis wrote:
       | The problem with China is that its people have never known
       | democracy. The leader is eternal like Putin. You can see how an
       | economic superpower with nukes and a dictator can go. So all the
       | article goes about how nice and misunderstood things are in China
       | without addressing the hard reality.
        
       | dng88 wrote:
        
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