I had a coworker who grew up in north china (jilin), he said during elementary school (late 90s) he had class field trips to north Korea -- the trips made him to appreciate home a lot. I think he mentioned there was no running water/sewage or something.
He described how moving to the US made him realize how far underdeveloped China was (especially his region), which was wild for him because he thought he was comparably well-off
A lot of us were growing in propoganda state.
There's a cultural element too (or the lack of one). There's this notion of looking for those being worse off as a means to be like "at least I'm not doing worse than 'those' people". People are looked down for the strangest things, skin color not even in the picture, a spoken dialect is enough
It's so weird to me to be constantly obsessed with people worse off than oneselves.
It's one thing to have people focused on rankings in addition to class-obsession on their own, but getting to State push that is a whole other ballgame; insidious.
Doesn't seem like normal human behavior, shouldn't they be looking up?
正常人沒在比爛的好嗎？🥹
