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Kinda sucks that this stuff still hasn’t been addressed.

I’ve personally known people that have been told that they are “too old” for things like jobs or uni admissions in China. I’ve seen the job postings that recruiters put on apps like wechat as well and some of them will even say things like “female wanted” or “female European only.”

The vid also mentions 996, which is technically illegal but it happens all the time. Know a few ppl who used to work this schedule.

I think in terms of things like infrastructure (e.g. high speed rail, etc.) China is doing pretty well. But when it comes to things like ageism, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination they still have quite a way to go.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 hours ago

    Well said. Especially I like this part:

    The second is that we can’t criticise China earnestly because we don’t live in China neither do we speak or read Chinese. I have lived in an anglo country for a little while and have learnt that most people don’t have the mental framework, let alone the requisite information, to understand and critique a foreign culture.

    And it reminds me of something I wanted to mention more generally in the thread as a response to the video, which is that I don’t get what honest purpose it serves for the segment to have somebody from a foreign university speaking in English about China’s work culture problems. I’m not saying SCMP is outright lying about the culture; as far as I can find on SCMP, it has a complicated history of ownership and is currently owned by Alibaba group, not colonial interests - but it is I would say at least a yellow flag (warning sign) regarding the framing of something, when criticism of one of the west’s targets is being presented in English through the framing of an outsider.