The US has a “maga” echochamber in rural areas, but in cities, its not really an echochamber. Cities tend to lean left, but there’s no homogenous hivemind opinion. People will have different opinions.
There are pro-choice and anti-abortion protesters all the time.
There are pro-gun and anti-gun people.
Some people support Biden, some support trump, some support Bernie.
There are pro-israel people, there are pro-palestine people.
In China, its almost impossible to find one news article criticizing the central government, especially not at the Paramount leader at the time (such as Xi Jingping).
I mean, people discuss it behind closed doors, but no one is trash talking Xi in public.
Perhaps the largest difference is that in classrooms, kids actually discuss things in social studies / history classes. There would be an open debate about pro-gun or anti-gun, pro- death penalty or anti- death penalty.
These are not the type of discussions that happen in Chinese classrooms. Granted, I left when I was young in like grade 1-2, but my older brother who was in like grade 7-8 never knew about Tianamen, was always taught pro-CCP stuff. This might be why he has trust issues and constantly fears the government and believes wild conspiracy theories. I mean, imagine one of the biggest events in your country just deleted from history books, its only natural for someone to become skeptical of every authority once your trust have been betrayed.
Slightly different.
The US has a “maga” echochamber in rural areas, but in cities, its not really an echochamber. Cities tend to lean left, but there’s no homogenous hivemind opinion. People will have different opinions.
There are pro-choice and anti-abortion protesters all the time.
There are pro-gun and anti-gun people.
Some people support Biden, some support trump, some support Bernie.
There are pro-israel people, there are pro-palestine people.
In China, its almost impossible to find one news article criticizing the central government, especially not at the Paramount leader at the time (such as Xi Jingping).
I mean, people discuss it behind closed doors, but no one is trash talking Xi in public.
Perhaps the largest difference is that in classrooms, kids actually discuss things in social studies / history classes. There would be an open debate about pro-gun or anti-gun, pro- death penalty or anti- death penalty.
These are not the type of discussions that happen in Chinese classrooms. Granted, I left when I was young in like grade 1-2, but my older brother who was in like grade 7-8 never knew about Tianamen, was always taught pro-CCP stuff. This might be why he has trust issues and constantly fears the government and believes wild conspiracy theories. I mean, imagine one of the biggest events in your country just deleted from history books, its only natural for someone to become skeptical of every authority once your trust have been betrayed.