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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 20:24:57 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   I wish people would spot
   casually spout anti-China things at me. Although I am not a CCP fan, I am STILL CHINESE and it sometimes feels freaking Sinophobic.
   Like guys, you guys complain about Nazis but you seem OK with painting Chinese people in a bad light (namely they are brainwashed, have no agency blah blah).
   Like stop already.
   Ugh.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 20:29:25 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Marcos M.

     @euklidiadas we have a saying - only Chinese people can speak badly about Chinese people 😂

     Honestly I am just angry at all the ignorance being thrown back at me. It's just frustrating

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     Marcos M. (euklidiadas@red.niboe.info)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 20:29:27 JST Marcos M.

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     @liztai

     I feel myselft anti-Spanish os Spanishfobic sometimes. haha And it is my country.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 23:26:33 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Claudius

     @claudius and the batteries in your fancy electric cars! 😂

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     Claudius (claudius@darmstadt.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 23:26:34 JST Claudius

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     @liztai here in germany, it's also common that people reply with some variation of "producers of cheap products and/or bad quality" when you bring up products from china.

     GUYS, GUESS WHERE YOUR FANCY PHONES WERE PRODUCED?! HINT: IT WASN'T "MADE IN GERMANY".

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 23:29:00 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @liztai Well said, Elizabeth!

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 23:29:00 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan sometimes I wonder why I, as one of the Chinese diaspora feel this way. I think since a big part of my identity comes from China, I can't help but feel upset a part of my heritage is considered "bad".

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 23:33:02 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Claudius

     @claudius that's so sad. We let our capitalist desires overrule what is needed for the world right now. China is making interesting leaps in green tech, which includes powering electric cards with roads! Thats insane. I am sad so many countries are not doing more top them, hinestly! Cos it will benefit the world in the end.

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     Claudius (claudius@darmstadt.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 23:33:03 JST Claudius

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     @liztai We had a very solid solar panel industry in germany 20 years ago. Our pro-coal politicians basically destroyed that whole sector. Now pretty much every solar panel is made in china (I'm not complaining about that last part, but I'm complaining about that first part A LOT).

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:02:41 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Havoc BSc MSc

     @Havoc_online Yeah, it's a big pity, but I guess China doesn't care if people know. :) The only reason why I know is because I used to be a world news editor and had to read through pubs like Xin Hua and China Daily (together with the usual suspects Reuters and AP), and was amazed at what they were doing. @claudius

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     Havoc BSc MSc (havoc_online@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:02:43 JST Havoc BSc MSc

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     @liztai @claudius I was reading about al the amazing the green progress in China the other day. We hear nothing about it in MSM.

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:40:25 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @liztai Thatʼs exactly it. We have a shared heritage, and we literally have family there (in my case half-cousins).

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:40:25 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan Glad I am not the only one that feels like this. I think to me what galls me the most is the bad, no nuance disinformation being spouted 😅

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 20:53:27 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan yeah been through the same thing. They just parrot whatever they read in the media, which is often distorted. I know China has problems, but a lot of what's said in the media is often bad, bad, bad. Never do they mention the good things such as lifting millions out of poverty etc. It's like they for that their country is not spotless and have tonnes of problems too. 😒

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 20:53:28 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @liztai So much of it stems from ignorance. I’ve even seen it in forums where I’ve participated, people forget I had commented, and still dis Chinese people. I might be HK Chinese but I’m still Chinese. One time I added, ‘I’m still here, folks,’ and only a couple of people apologized.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 11:47:34 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan lol yes. The irony (or hypocrisy) never fails to make me laugh

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 11:47:36 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @liztai People like that like to ignore their own problems because their own racism or superiority complex indulges in Schadenfreude. And they really hate it when you point out the equivalent issue in their own society (the origins of the racist taunt, ‘Why don’t you go back to where you came from?’).
     They also offer their criticisms while typing on a Chinese-made keyboard that is hooked up to a Chinese-made computer.