Lol I’ve only heard it said by classmates in school, it’s not like they spell it out.

More like “You’ve been banned from PRC, you fucking 汉奸 (Han Traitor¹)”

(¹Nationalists like to label anyone criticizing the government as race traitors, it’s kinda like the Magats label anyone anti-trump to be “Anti-American”)

I like one order of Norweigian Citizenship pls.

But seriously, idk.

Is this like a roundabout way of asking which country is it better to be born in?

The thing is:

If you are born an American citizen, it’s implied that you probably speak English so you’d have a better shot at immigrating to another anglosphere country, and since you’re probably already westernized so you’re more desirable to the immigration authorities (but then again, you’ll still need an actual eligible reason to go, like you have a “skill” in demand or like have family there)

Being a born a Chinese citizen implies that you probably don’t speak English, or any foreig language for that matter. So you have more difficulty in trying to move abroad. (I mean the only other place that uses Mandarin is Taiwan, or maybe Singapore.) But if you wanna go to Canada, Australia, or Europe, you are now facing both linguistic and cultural issues.

As for me personally…

I’m actually not quite sure.

But I honestly just despise the ruling party of China so… there’s that. That really skews my judgement against living under their rule.

As for actually living there (assuming I don’t get harassed by the government for all the thing I’ve said overseas), I’d have to re-learn Mandarin, I can speak basics but I’d need to speak slower for my brain to catch up. I also can’t really write except by typing pinyin. And I also have trouble expressing thoughts since I’m so used to English at this point. I’d also no longer have citizenship there, so I’d essentially be like a foreigner, I mean I am a foreigner to them, legally speaking.

And this fucking censorship thing. I’d have to figure out how to use VPNs… and like… at any time the VPN could stop working… that would really make me sad if I can’t watch certain stuff, I mean like…

it would really be bad for mental health if I know a thing exist, but I can’t access it due to a stupid firewall.

Also the air quality… ugh… that air would be very annoying to deal with.

So… I don’t really wanna live there.

Really hard to find jobs, I think the lack of stable jobs was like one of the reasons why my parents brought us to the US.

I mean, the US isn’t exactly he most desirable place either, but if I were to move somewhere…

I wanna go to like Canada or Australia something (cuz Norway aint gonna take me, they are very strict on immigration).

Canada and Australia has a very big Chinese Diaspora population, so I feel more confortable there compared to like EU which I don’t think there are many ethnic Chinese living there.

I don’t want to like stand out in a crowd and I’m the only one that looks like me, know what I’m saying.

Over the past like decade or so since we’ve been here, my parents have like… financial assets invested in the US. Took like 5 years to save up money for that stuff. That’s all I’ll say, not gonna give any specific details for privacy reasons.

So… I’m not talking on behalf of other Chinese Americans… I’m just saying for us speficially, I only see a path of the future in the US, unless I get lucky and somehow obtain an immigration visa for an anglosphere country. And it’d still be a pain to transfer stuff out of the US.

In the US, my (or technically my parents’) house is fully paid off¹. And honestly I just like this house way better than that shitty apartment we had in Guangzhou, China. That placed sucked, it was urban hell.

¹My mom had to borrow a lot of money from family and friends, took like many years or something to pay it off. My mom had to work overtime a lot. Also btw China doesn’t have 1.5x overtime pay like the US does, also China has much lower pay, less work safety (no OHSA²), less breaks, no individual unions.

²Although, this admin is really trying to ged rid of OSHA too, RIP

China doesn’t have “suburbs”, not really, if you want a job, you have to live in a crowded city.

I like the “suburb” areas. Think of like Brooklyn, NYC, or Philly.

Like if I have kids, I wouldn’t really want them to grow up in China… that education system is gonna cause so much anxiety and depression.

I still remember being held after school hours in like 1st or 2nd grade because I couldn’t memorize a story word for word.

As long as they don’t actually pass Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0, I don’t think we’re leaving any time soon.

But it really depends on what happens in 2029.

For example: In Vietnam, Chinese Diaspora had to flee when the North Vietnam government won the Vietnam War.

That type of stuff could happen here.

Ideally I would try to flee to Canada if that happens, but its hard to say, if they don’t accept us, I could end up in China if nobody else is willing to take Chinese Americans.

Tldr: Kinda rambled a bit, but US is still better than China, for my family at least, for now at least. We don’t have any assets back in China.

No need to imagine. I am that guy.

I’m Gen Z, was born in China after the CCP failed to terminate me under the One Child Policy, which resulted in my birth. Parent had to pay a massive fine for my existence. Even politics aside, economy was shit at the time, hard for my parents to find stable jobs. My mom told me that work was just brutal, I remember my maternal grandmother had to take care of us often times because both parents were either at work or looking for work from morning to late at night.

Government is so corrupt, they didn’t even enforce food safety regulations (not even sure if such regulations even existed). I remember my mom constantly warning us about food safety. Also you need to boil the water cuz its toxic. Steets were dirty, well at least the neighborhood I used to live in. Other areas might have it better.

Hukou system meant that since my parents were from rural areas, they didn’t have all the rights of someone living in the city. Even though me and my older brother were born in the city. So the city didn’t even allow us into their public schools.

And if we had stayed in the country, it’d be a struggle to get outside information. Like not just for political information and stuff (which honestly, probably doesn’t even matter when you’re struggling and you can’t change the system), but most importantly the entertainment would be limited, anything considered anti-government would be much harder to find, if not impossible, in mainland China. Unless you get lucky and somehow, as a local, manage to find a VPN if you never stepped foot outside the country. (Not sure if I’d even find out what a VPN is if I remained in the country)

Like imagine you’re under a “rat race” for money then you go home and can’t find anything interesting to watch, because its “too political” and blocked.

So yay, jumping from one boiling pot to another. Life is amazing! The universe do love its trolling.

(Tbf life did get better in the US, for us, at least from around 2014 to now. But I’m now more of fearing for the future, such as a Chinese Exclusion Act v2: Electric Boogaloo)

DUDE DONT JINKS IT 😭

I mean, for context, I was like 8 years old when I first got here. I didn’t really know the difference between fastfood vs “real” restaurants so I just categorically grouped them all together.

Honestly, I still don’t really know what “real” western food is.

I remember going along with family to a cousin’s sweet 16 birthday party and I think its was western cuisine or something… like I heard they spend a lot of money on it (the cousin’s parents were kinda middle class rich) and I disliked most of the food they served, didn’t eat much, don’t even remember what they served. Ended up going home kinda hungry lol.

I think I just go so used to Chinese food, I didn’t feel confident exploring other types of “western” food… other than like burgers, pizzas, cheesesteaks, subway sandwiches / hoagies. Which I know, living here for like over a decade, I still don’t feel quite “American” because of my picky eating habits.

Mcdonalds these days suck ass.

The 2010s were great. Very nostalgic and McDonalds was one of my first and my best memories of America. Glad I got to enjoy them before they went to shit, cuz otherwise kid-me would’ve have the impression that “all western foods suck”. (I mean it’s hard to even know how to look for local non-chain “western” restaurants… since the reason I know what a McDonalds is because back in China, we also had them, but I think it tasted different… don’t remember)

I mean seriously, is it just me or does like Papa Johns and Dominos and even Pizza Hut all went to shit?

P.S. I remember my mom telling about the Pizza we had in Pizza Hut in China… like she said it was expensive and it was only a very small pizza (like individual-size). I don’t even remember having it in China

I have a refrigerator that’s been here since we moved in a decade ago… my parents were too frugal to replace it and sometimes icecream would melt…

Also the bathtub area in the 2nd floor is sometimes leaking downstairs and its still not fully fixed.

Also the heater is kinda broken every year and my dad has to use a temporty fix that eould often stop working a few times through the winter.

Also I had a window AC in the living room that didn’t work for like 8 years until it got replaced recently. So it was hot as hell downstairs, so sometimes I ate in my room where the AC worked lol.

Also walls and celings have cracks.

And this is not even the worst place I lived in. I’ve been to worse

RIP OP’s Kidney

No officer, I do not “pirate”

I merely ask a friend of a friend to share with me free stuff, which are, obviously, totally perfectly legal and absolutely not illegal copyright infringement. 😉

He goes by the username: Ligma

Hey… wait a minute…

This image is moving!

(It’s so subtle lol, I almost didn’t realize this was a gif, thought I was going crazy)

GTA 6 is gonna be filled with AI-Generated In-Universe Radio

MARK MY WORDS

(did I jinks it?)

New SCP story just dropped

TIL Mark Zuckerberg is a Communist

(Facebook torrented something like 80 TBs worth of copyrighted data)

First you need to stop companies from polluting the rivers.

What the fuck did you just say to me you little shit? I’ll have you know that I graduated top of my class in Lemmy online debates… (etc…)

😉

More like: ■■■■ ■■■ is the CEO of Proton AG

Your brain doesn’t stop doing things when you sleep, because if it did, you’d not be breathing.

I wonder what Chinese flat earthers be like:

A: 地球是平的 (地球 is flat)

B: 但是你刚刚说了“地球” (but you just said “地球”) (地球 literally translates to: “ball of dirt” xD)

Good thing smartphones exists, everyone nowadays has a pocket video recorder to document crimes.