He’s a Chinese guy in the US. He thinks in terms of large monoliths. The nuance of 40 different cultures on a small continent might be lost on him.

That’s OK.

We all have some approximation of reality in our brains which is necessarily shaped by our life experiences.

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kankerlijer 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is something very irritating seeing someone dismiss someone else on the internet using condescending therapy speak 'Thats Ok', nevermind the fact that calling him out as some ignorant Chinese guy while China has hundreds of cultures and languages, as if a Chinese person couldn't comprehend... Europe.

	▲	kubb 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The way to respect isn’t through shaming people into it. It’s through demonstration of value, in this case understanding of nuance. Instead we get an application of external logic and values which can’t be used to properly reason about the entity they’re applied to. There’s no need for frustration. We take the stoic approach here. It’s OK. You are a product of your environment. Everything you’ve ever experienced told you this is the way to act.

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ViktorRay 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your statement here is pretty ironic.

China also has many different cultures, languages and so on for the over 1.4 billion people who live there. Why would the “nuance” of Europe be “lost” on a Chinese person?

	▲	seanmcdirmid 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		China mostly has a single national identity, and provincial differences are way too nuanced to be mapped in the same way that country differences in Europe would be. It would be like trying to get Americans to understand that "Henan man" is a meme similar to the "Florida man" meme.

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tshaddox 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The nuance of 40 different cultures on a small continent might be lost on him.

I don’t know about the author in particular, but Americans are generally aware of the “nuanced” European history of near constant war between rival nations, states, factions, and religions.

	▲	kubb 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think they could do a better job communicating that, but I’m glad that Americans are educated and curious about other parts of the world.

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