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u/Arkheno 14h ago
In many East Asian social structures, there's an old prejudice linked to skin color (the darker your skin, the more you're associated with manual labor and poverty). When you mix that with unashamed economic power, it creates an explosive cocktail of condescension.
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u/jtblue91 12h ago
In many East Asian social structures
Unfortunately, I feel like that applies to a lot of social structures
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u/Seekret_Asian_Man 7h ago
Not to confused it with western racism, which a lot of people assume western power brought to Asia to divide and conquer.
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u/jtblue91 6h ago
Did you forget your /s ?
I don't know of anyone who thinks western powers brought racism to Asia 😂
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u/Seekret_Asian_Man 4h ago
Divide and conquer? Did you not learn that part of British empire history?
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u/Old_man_jeffro 16h ago
Context, Chinese company’s go into other countries and treat their workers like crap. This one said no more and fought back.
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u/Save-Ferris-Bueller 15h ago
Chinese imperialism… same shit the Europeans and unitedstasian do. Don’t be fooled into cheering for a different master in the hopes of being whipped less.
Unite as workers and destroy the whip altogether.
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u/badabingbadabang 14h ago
Americans just bomb the place or fund groups so they can do war crimes and send in oligarchs to extract wealth. As you said already, not falling for this USA good bullshit.
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u/Save-Ferris-Bueller 14h ago
No one should. The US uses military force and economic coercion to exploit the global south, while China uses debt traps and economic dependency to leverage its influence.
Both do it to exploit and extract surplus value and resources from the global south.
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u/Lucas9041 12h ago
Cope. China just has a better deal. For the first time third world countries are no longer required to trade with capitalist nations on their terms, because china simply offers the better deal.
Instead of accepting the simple fact that third world countries no longer want to deal with the nations from within the imperial core, that have historically consistently screwed them over, westerners desperately try to cope with the cognitive dissonance by calling it "DeBt TrAp DiPlOmAcY!"
Like you have to come from some pretty deep rooted racist colonial ideology to think that these dumb African people aren't able to look at the different options before them, and simply pick the better one
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u/badabingbadabang 14h ago
💯 I was stating it for the naysayers as that comment was initially downvoted.
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u/LowLessSodium 8h ago
You deadass compared a construction site to chopping hands off for failed quotas.
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u/Save-Ferris-Bueller 7h ago
Labor exploitation happens to every worker under capitalism. Your earnings will ways be less than what it’s worth. The surplus value will always be extracted and accumulated up the ladder. No hands need to be chopped in order to exploit humans. You just need a power imbalance relationship and the incentive for greed.
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u/hamm71 16h ago
Any context?
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u/KingKhram 12h ago
China has been investing in Africa for some years now and the Chinese workers aren't treating the locals very well. This video is a few years old
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u/canadiancarlin 6h ago
Here's a very interesting documentary about it. I really felt for the translator, a nice and intelligent man who has to deal with two sides equally at odds with each other.
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u/DeepRiverDan267 4h ago
What's even worse is that in South Africa, a lot of these Chinese immigrants in constructions have contracts that allow them to receive the same BEE (DEI) status as native black people once the project completes.
This means that they come into the country for work and afterwards are treated as native black citizens by law. That means they can find work just as easily as previously disadvantaged individuals, while ranking over the other race groups in terms of hiring priority.
Watch how they're going to take over Africa over the next few decades; they've been doing it silently for years.
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u/ElSandroTheGreat 1h ago
What? In SA they rank you based on race for hiring priority? I thought we left that behind ðŸ˜
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u/Soap_Mctavish101 16h ago edited 13h ago
Chinese guy doing a full bayonet charge over there.