China watchers & think tankies keep on obsessing over dull (in a western view) language on recent "baby making machines" Tweet. From absolutely dumb misunderstanding to vile spinning of what is said in original headlines and articles on women's emancipation in XJ.
It can be the agony of their "Uyghur genocide" narrative failure, or schizophrenic white burden, or unwilling to understand China's a different mindset. Or all of it together.
At this point they don't seem to offer anything than obsessing over a phrase, taken out of context.
I'm educated (and lived) in both Western European and post Soviet environments, so I know exactly why they either spin it or misunderstand it, or both.
Most of them won't even get further than "we are always right, because we are" mindset.
The West is doomed to be condescending, jealous or straight up hateful towards non-western civilisations until they still believe that they are the "enlightenment".
Their politicians will use that to push their influence & market.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that we should necessarily fully abandon pc language, when speaking English. Just that slowly it'll be less important while China, a non Western power becomes more and more confident.
Will CN develop and popularize its own 'pc culture' though
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Tuvans in PRC live in Altay prefecture, northern Xinjiang. Considered part of Uriankhai tribes, in China classified as same group with Oirat Mongols, educated in Mongolian language, using Kazakh language too.
They speak native dialects in their homes/family. Basically a transborder identity group, divided between modern Russian Tuva, Mongolia and China. Main group lives in three Tuvan villages: Hemu (Kom), Ak Haba, Kanas.
Watched it, thanx for the link! It's def. loosely based on Belyayev's novel. I know HK & Japanese cinema fairly well, but not mainland movies, so appreciate your threads Dylan.
The movie's slow and bizarre. 80s sound effects and all.
"Professor Dowell's Head" was a table book for many sci-fi lovers in the USSR, maybe not his most popular novel though. I think Amphibian Man was. So this film was a nice treat, as I was a sci-fi fan during the sci-fi craze in early 90s in post-USSR, & interested in Asian cinema.
Belyayev's one of the most popular sci-fi writers in USSR/Russia, along with Ivan Yefremov and few others. Amphibian Man was a very popular romantic film shot in 1961 in the USSR, with a starlet Anastasia Vertinskaya & a Soviet idol Vladimir Korenev.
Lol, i'm from the former SU, too. Lustration didn't happen because Yeltsin didn't want it. People were CHANTING "Lustration!" to him in 1992 during one of his speeches.
Yeltsin knew the system was one and lustration is inpossible. It could ruin the RF.
The lustration was impossible snd would be absurd, as power transfer was by and for the people who were themselves ex-soviet elite, very much one with the KGB.
They couldn't lustrate big part of themselves. It ain't no Eastern Germany for you. Couldn't absorb itself.
The take in the comments about "Yeltsin era was an American experiment" is even more absurd. Putin was promoted to Yeltsin by Berezovsky, Yeltsin accepted him as his successor.
Not necessarily endorsing RT but take a look at this documentary :
Similar documentary by Vice is on YT too, but Vice are idiots so not sharing the link.
Only partial success of emancipation in CA countries in early USSR time. But, the countries now enjoy independence and for sure, are developing more in their own pace.
It'll come, women's rights and all. Every country probably will fit into one or another version of modernised, more fair-play culture. But differently.
Lol, of course it is not investigative journalism.
"Investigative journalism" is a couple of SJWs from Vice, parachuting in XJ for a day and making an untruthful, sensationalist "documentary" about XJ, claiming they were "followed everywhere", lol. That's journalism alright.
Or maybe Aspi's satellite imagery "investigators" is a good example of investigative journalism? Hahah. Yeah.
Then, I guess extrapoliting leaked data from one XJ village on all XJ is good journalism?
I'll take accounts of visitors and guests of XJ like myself, telling truth over "investigative journalism".