Today a Chinese friend of mine told me that her family members in China give her a hard time about living in an "enemy country".
In fact, she said that people she knows back in China frequently discuss how the U.S. is an "enemy", and talk of war is not unusual.
I have no idea how typical this is, or even whether it's accurate, but thought I'd share the anecdote.
I was pretty startled. I told her that most Americans, being an insular and self-absorbed people, rarely think about China or any foreign country.
I was pretty startled. I told her that most Americans, being an insular and self-absorbed people, rarely think about China or any foreign country.
I guess the closest thing I've ever seen to that sort of mass national enmity in the U.S. was the Islamophobia and obsession with terrorism in the early 2000s. That was kind of terrifying. It was something I'd read about in books, but never seen.
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