Post #3215636
2026-06-09 06:51 UTC
OP forgot the racist propaganda against Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, that’s despite Japan being a US vassal and a capitalist state.
I agree that Westerners hate China because it is a successful socialist state but they would still hate it just because it is a successful East Asian state.
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@GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 2026-06-09 09:29
China having success contradicts their orientalist view. The Western Orientalist framework historically constructs China as static, decadent, or intellectually inferior: a civilization perpetually awaiting external modernization. Therefore, when contemporary China achieves rapid technological, economic, and political success on its own terms, it directly contradicts that orientalist view. Orientalism relies on a binary opposition between a dynamic, rational “West” and a passive, irrational “East”; Chinese success disrupts this hierarchy, revealing that non-Western agency, innovation, and global leadership are possible without Western templates. newcriterion.com/…/edward-saids-ldquoorientalismr…