Asian people are label whores. If China were to turn into, say, the beacon of a model civilization for the rest of the world, Taiwanese people would fight to be called “Chinese.” It's no different than when the American colonies referred to themselves as British but when American rebels started to win the war, it was nothing but “Yea, America, man. America. Fuck yea.”

No, the difference here is that in America we're able to show the looting and unexcusable acts by our own people, and not just the acts of heroism. Did looting take place in China? I don't know… but I wouldn't trust that the Chinese gov't would show it if it did.

Great post, but I think this is one major facet you overlooked: that the propaganda works not just because of what they say, but because they don't allow you to hear, see, or read anything else.

I think so long as you recognize that you could be under the influence, you're above it.

I'd rather call them as they are known – “Mainlanders”. Then Taiwanese, then the rest of us as “Overseas Chinese”.

I think the Totalitarian Communism government (or Red China) doesn't really represent the Mainlanders. But for fairness sake, they are slowly moving to the right towards Socialism. The question now is, will it be Social-Democracy or Democratic-Socialism (which are deeply different)? Or will they start a new form of Socialism (once again) – Totalitarian-Socialism? But that I believe is another discussion for another day

I like how a YouTube commenter called it a “ZhongGuogasm.”