Inspired by the recent c/AskLemmy question about Myanmar.

As a PRC-born ethnic Han-Chinese person who currently is a US Citizen and reside in the US, I’m curious on what people think of my former country.

  • truthfultemporarily@feddit.org
    111·
    15 hours ago

    A ruthlessly effective technocracy that has achieved very impressive outcomes for their citizens¹ while also being a cultural / societal system I never want to live in. For some reason super obsessed with outside appearances.

    1:

    From 1995 to 2025:

    • GDP/c: 603 to 13973
    • Literacy rates: 77% to 96%
    • University graduates per year: 900K to 10M
    • Life expectancy: 33 to 77
    • Railway km: 54616 to 160000 (50000 high speed)
    • Urbanization rate: 29% to 67%

    etc.

    • vaguerant@fedia.io
      81·
      14 hours ago

      I like the idea that these were your first impressions of China, as in you stepped off a plane, had one look around and thought “Wow, this place seems like a ruthlessly effective technocracy that has achieved very impressive outcomes for its citizens but it’s certainly a cultural-slash-societal system I never want to live in.”