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uhhh chinese media literacy question
@garbados@friend.camp i would guess it is more anti-imperialist than ethnic although i can't say i've seen those films to necessarily know
like the idea very much is that as a citizen of china you should be using your labour in a way which serves china, but chinese nationalism is less founded in ethnicity than in the west; it's more built on social obligation, like, as a member of this community you have certain responsibilities towards it; as a citizen of china you have responsibilities to china (and, one would hope, china has responsibilities towards you)
uhhh chinese media literacy question
@garbados@friend.camp i guess the way i would describe it is, let's say your name is Belinda Jones, and another member of the Jones family comes up to you and says “remember, you’re a Jones”
it doesn't matter if you were adopted, or if you are a Jones by birth or marriage, or how closely or distantly related you are to this other Jones, you have a social and familial responsibility to the Joneses on account of being a part of the family and sharing their name
and it's that same sort of idea only applied to China as a whole