For Context: I'm Chinese American, and I do not feel "ashamed" for my heritage, neither do I feel "ashamed" for being a US Citizen.

The CCP is not my fault. I do not feel any shame of saying I'm from China.

Similarly, the trump admin is not my fault, I voted Harris. I do not feel any shame for being American.

So what is the thought process of people feeling shame/guilt?

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[+] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)
  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    There’s a huge difference between being ashamed of your Government’s actions

    That's not really "shame", not really the right word for it, shame is something you feel about yourself, this is more like resentment.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    I think it becomes shame because we recognize we've benefited from the system that has shit all over so many. Even indirectly, it's hard to think about all the ways I've benefited from - just to say one thing - all the cheap open land (places like texas, nebraska, oklahoma, OR & WA) we got after putting the natives in concentration camps and murdering most of them.

    Like, I try to enjoy a national park but then realize: this was someone's home. Many peoples, in fact. We took it, put up gates, and charge people to harass the animals. And that's the places we've saved from industrial pollution and factory farming.

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  • [+] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    China will probably have the solar system in a generation

    OMG I just had a thought.

    Remember what happened when Great Britain expanded and colonized stuff? 13 colonies?Independence?

    OMG wouldn't it be cool if China did that to like Mars, then the Martian colonists be like, "no fuck you CCP", then:

    Declaration of Independence

    United Provinces of Mars

    Constitution (hopefully a smarter constitution)

    Martian Revolution

    Becomes a Solar Superpower

    Chinese becomes the lingua franca of the solar system.

    Time is a circle lmao.

    Literally just The Expanse timeline, but without blue goo and Chinese becomes the lingua franca of the UN. LOL

    FOR MARS!

    火星联合众国

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