If you don’t love fashion, don’t try to “keep up with trends”.

Think of it this way. Fashion can be a hobby. You can spend hours every week researching, studying, searching for clothes. You can participate in message boards or discord groups for it. You can travel just for it.

Like photography. Like working out. Like gardening.

You can still like to take some pictures, and want them to be nice, without making photography your hobby. Same with going to the gym, or keeping some plants in your apartment.

So if fashion is not the hobby for you, don’t worry about it too much. Just learn what is good for you. Don’t care about the trends.

You can dress in any style nowadays tbh.

Just be mindful of getting a good fit on your clothes. Make sure the length of the pants is right, they fit well around the waist etc.

Maybe find a couple of ppl on social media you like the way they dress, and just passively absorb their content while scrolling.

Then go shopping from time to time, when you feel the need for a piece of clothing. Like maybe you need new pants, maybe you need new shoes.

You’ll have an idea of what kind of stuff you like, how you’d like to have your clothes fit etc.

But yeah, you don’t have to make fashion a hobby if you don’t want to. Trends are for kids and fashion autists.

Dang I can’t find anything on that that’s not NED propaganda /: seems like it’s fake surprise surprise

That’s not a thing 😄

What “Han Chinese policy”…?

You know the one-child policy only applied to Han Chinese in major cities right? Ethnic minorities were exempt.

And ethnic minorities have autonomy, meaning they rule themselves and have their own laws/governments. Like the Tai people in Guangxi, or Inner Mongolia where they still have signs in the Mongolian script. While in Mongolia they use the Cyrillic alphabet 😄

The Chinese government sponsors local cultural events and practices, builds temples to local religions (like the largest Buddhist temple in the world in southwest China), incentivizes learning local languages (by having bilingual schools) etc etc.

What has any western country done in that respect? In guarding and preserving minority cultures? Like how are Canada or Australia doing? I won’t even mention the US 😄

Lmao vuvuzela ok gotcha

Can it become a global superpower without becoming “democratic”?

Because that means a liberal western style democracy right? Where policies enacted by representatives only benefit 1% of the people? Like scientific research has shown that like 10% of laws passed actually represent the will of the vast majority of people. And 50% represent the will of the 1%.

While in China people are constantly polled (like monthly or weekly sometimes) about their opinions, situations, desires, and then laws are formed from that. They participate in local government in councils, and directly decide how their immediate community lives.

What even is democracy? To me it’s to have the will of the people represented in our states.

This doesn’t happen anywhere in the west. When was the last time a government in any major western country was POPULAR. And did what people actually wanted?

How is THAT democracy?

China is not easy to immigrate to, true. But saying they are monocultures or xenophobic is CRAZY.

China has way more peoples and cultures than most countries. It has waaaay more languages officially spoken and taught in school than the US. It’s more comparable to the EU, if it had formed like a thousand years earlier.

Just search a couple of random Chinese provinces or autonomous regions (places where minorities self-govern 😲) in like the north and the south, or the west and the east, and read on the culture and ethnicities there.

Seriously Americans insist they have such vast cultural differences within the US, because “here we say pop and there they say soda; most people here are anabaptist, but there they are Methodists”.

Bro in China they speak languages that are not even related. They follow religions that are separated by thousands of years. They have cultural practices that are unique to their region that developed for thousands and thousands of years.

China is infinitely more diverse than 90% of countries in the world.

Hummm the “liberal world order” is 100% “countries” using arms to push their will. Countries being “the west”.

And YOU having “human rights” is not really dependent on the “liberal world order”. Most of your rights were won by blood and tears during the late 1800s and early 1900s, through popular movements mostly ideologically aligned first with anarchism then with communism.

Also, the vast majority of the world not having human rights and being colonized and exploited IS your “liberal world order”.

So not really sure how you specifically benefit from western imperialism, unless you are a billionaire ofc. Which I highly doubt.

South Korea is literally a US military base disguised as a country. It was a fascist dictatorship for decades, and afterwards it has been ruled by an oligarchy. And it’s 100% lockstep with the US.

Japan… was that yes. It still is in many ways (Okinawa). But it’s also more independent than SK. It’s closer to the Western European countries in its relation to the US.

Germany also has a shit ton of US military bases. But it’s not as peripheral as SK.

Seems pretty obvious to me.