• Every building is a shoddily built hazardous death trap prone to collapsing at any moment

  • Food and consumer products are full of toxic chemicals because no one cares

  • Slavelike working conditions, insane working hours, suicide nets at factories

  • Every citizen is spied on constantly, one wrong thought means they will be dragged off in the middle of the night by the secret police

  • Arbitrary and nonsensical censorship of the media, to quote Mike from RLM on why Ghostbusters 2016 wasn’t available in China “Your Communist government thinks the movie is witchcraft”

  • LGBT people oppressed

  • No regard for the environment, pollution everywhere, pristine nature destroyed to build empty ghost cities for no reason

  • A dystopian inhumane culture where everyone hates each other and has no regard for human life. There were so many Reddit stories about how in China drivers double back to kill pedestrians they hit so they won’t be held criminally liable or because people faking accidents for lawsuits is so common. Also people step over people having medical emergencies on the street for the same reasons

  • Racist and jingoistic

  • dumpster_dove [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    9 months ago

    censorship

    I’m actually a bit salty about this because some of the Chinese webnovels (guilty pleasure) I’ve read got banned when they were halfway through for unclear reasons.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, those censorship laws do feel a bit extreme as an outsider. But censorship as a general rule can be extreme and silly on petty stuff while letting some weird or unethical shit pass. It’s kind of fun to study even offhandly what passes as taboo in different parts of the world.

      • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        yeah i recently watched a video of a guy interviewing japanese women on relationship related questions, and he asked a lot of girls if they think its ok for their bf to go have sex with other women. they said yes, but only for prostitution (??). the reasoning is that they see it as his needs not being met, not cheating, cheating is bad if they dont pay the woman. thats definitely taboo here lmao

        a lot of the comments were malding over the japanese not being american style neocons over this

    • Krem [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      Watching a western movie in China and certain scenes being two seconds long because there was some sensitive subject mentioned/shown and the censors just cut it without bothering whether the movie now makes sense or not

      Also every Chinese movie with themes of police/government corruption is not set in mainland China but in a “Chinatown” in a fake country in SE Asia, that looks exactly like China and every character speaks perfect mandarin but there’s token street signs or ads in faux thai/vietnamese

      I blame the stuffy boomers