I used to believe America was a melting pot, until I recently realized it never really was. It was more like temporary coexistence sustained by economic abundance. Once those material conditions deteriorate, people start becoming bitter and hostile toward one another. A true melting pot takes time, sometimes even conflict and war, to forge compromises and organically become ONE. Time is not on your side.
@berniemoreno@RealPNavarro You know, politicians like you are exactly why America is in the mess it’s in today. Instead of reflecting on your own failures, you just point the finger at China. What a sore loser!
@nina_kulic_herz I’m so moved by your confidence to show this level of ignorance and arrogance. Poetry literally is part of the core memory of Chinese civilization. You have audacity to say we are not emotionally moved by it?
@business I don’t understand why any Chinese scientists would still want to stay in the U.S. under such harsh circumstances. Decades of studying and working there still aren’t enough. You are always outsiders.
@ForeignAffairs Another “China is collapsing while America is strong” delusion, as if America’s paper-inflated GDP reflects real productive power, the G7 represents “the rest of the world,” and China has no innovation base of its own. Bullshit!
In Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey,” viewers see inside the Trojan horse, but they “do not see inside the characters or their world,” Emily Wilson argues. https://t.co/emGSYcAiU0
@business Oh yeah, China must be absolutely terrified, otherwise, why would the Western media have to remind everyone of its “anxiety” every single day?
@ForeignAffairs@jleibold@tendor I’m sure this civilization has far more experience and wisdom in cultural assimilation. But that may be too much for colonial mindsets that insist on viewing people through an artificial racial lens.
@JamesLucasIT Yet most people in China lived in poverty at the time. “Behind vermilion gates, wine and meat go to waste, along the roads, people freeze to death.” (朱门酒肉臭,路有冻死骨) was a true portrait of Shanghai.
Tbh, very few countries are truly capable of absorbing different cultures,especially those shaped by colonialism. Racial superiority wasn’t just a byproduct of colonialism, it was one of its core justifications. Ideas that are embedded for centuries don’t simply disappear, they continue to shape institutions, narratives, and mindsets long after colonialism ends.