A discussion of Chinese social media, face culture and collective insecurity

On October 2, a LessWrong post about Chinese social reality reached the Hacker News front page. It makes four points: it compares Chinese social media to American junk food, saying filters are everywhere; it argues shame and face are the main tools for enforcing social norms; it describes a deep, dark-world cynicism about human nature; and it traces nationalism to a collective insecurity rooted in the century of humiliation. The author calls himself a first-generation Chinese American who moved to the US at age four, draws mainly on talks with his parents' generation of immigrants and on Chinese film, web fiction, games and comics, and admits the observations may lean too heavily on older generations and online culture.

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Not enough continuous observations to draw a trend yet.