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Originally Posted by aron
in Chinese culture it's considered bad form to criticise leaders. .
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I don't consider Chinese culture to be inferior to African or European. Surely they haven't got by for thousands of years if it didn't have utility. But it isn't divine.
And the Maximum Brother Can Do No Wrong mentality is quite Chinese. So any history that casts the Max Bro in a bad light simply can't be allowed to exist. To expose Max is an unforgivable crime. Christians may forgive, but the Chinese won't.
And it works, pretty well. It just isn't divine.
If you want some related info, look at the Mainland. When Deng Xiaoping opened China in Dec 1978, LSM operatives went in. Fifteen years later Lee said from the podium that they'd something like 20-odd million adherents. Ten years later LSM spokesman Chris Wilde told us there were none. What happened? Nobody's talking. How they went from zero to 20 million and back to zero - anybody's guess. But nobody seems to want to know.
So that 'inscrutable' stuff has some merit.