Are you seriously advocating Asia as negatively containing wars conquests and bitter rivalrys and white washing hundreds of years of slavery, colonialism, and native genocide that occurred. Shit that's recent enough that black live matter has to be a thing, DAPL pipe line and closer to home for me Waitangi Day Protests.
Don't generalize Asians like that, or even the Chinese. Free speech is one of the cornerstones of Hong Kong and Taiwanese society.
It might have been better that you had laws against hate speech or circumscribed it enough that he could not ride a wave of racism and misogony to the White House to put you in the position of asking him to eat a bag of dicks.
So rather than misinformation from both sides we get it straight from the government and if we go against what they say, we end up in jail.
People spent 8 years literally saying bush was Hitler. Would you have liked the Bush administration to have engaged in mass libel suits and crackdowns on all of his critics who used extreme political dissident language, yes, including exaggeration, hyperbole, and even false statements? Whataboutism is exactly what people are trying to explain to you as the core reason why free speech is sancrosant in the US system of government, and it's why BLM, unions, feminists, civil rights, anti government activists, the anti war movement haven't been able ultimately to be stopped even under regimes that would have liked to stop them from talking and organizing. Allowing the power to pick and choose allows the wrong people to pick and choose. Imagine president trump with the ability to silence his critics via mass lawsuits and government suppression. Hell, he'd probably order Twitter to ban 97% of users, shut down CNN, and order the Oscars off the air. The rule of law reigns supreme ultimately.
Yeah there are a bunch of countries that get by with democracy and actually legislate and enforce against hate speech.
But in America the slander and negative is at the front, not sure where that's good?
Who is getting literally imprisoned, let alone " whipped" for calling people fat?
But this discussion isn't about those countries, it's about ones like China where the person I replied to say it's better to live under such regimes than it is for people to have freedom of speech.
Maybe don't have democracy then, can't allow results we might not agree with after all.
Are you saying you want free elections but only if everyone votes for the results you want?
look some people really really really want to call others racial slurs
Maybe it is if it isn't spewing self loathe and hate all the time.
So we stop being PC and just start spewing hate all the time? Because that's what the poster thought freedom of speech was. He thinks "PC culture" and freedom of speech are the same thing. They don't think someone saying something hateful should be stopped, they think people shouldn't say anything to that hateful person.
You keep editing your posts after you make them. I agree that racism is bad, and I also give money to an organization that ensures racists can always express themselves.
No, the world definitely doesn't have a favourable view of 'Americans' but they still chow down on Marvel movies, listen to American music artists; care about American news; watch American television.
The article isn't saying that China's media isn't 'good' its saying that it lacks the worldwide projection of American media.
There is a load of bad on each side and I can definitely understand both.
And yet Japan and South Korea who have achieved far more market penetration with cultural exports in the region have no where near the " freedom of speech" USA style.
That's not what the article is implying. It's talking about how American made art is consumed literally throughout Asia.
it translates as budget in singapore. heh
Yep.
The Japan of the 1980's bears VERY little resemblance to the China of today by any measurement other than economic growth. Modern Japan is a vastly more open society with no imperial ambitions.
China not having a cultural export with the impact of anime/videogames or kpop/kdramas even in Asia is because of America?
Japan was still cool before the bubble burst. Yes there was more "economic anxiety" toward them but Japanese products were still cool and prominent in culture, take Sony as the biggest example. What Chinese made products are cool? People openly mock Chinese made goods as being shit just because they were produced in China. There are no big Chinese brands in America. Japan can't compare in this case. People have been buying Japanese made cars for decades here. There is an inherent cultural ideal here that Japanese cars are superior to domestic cars in terms of value. Even economic anxiety of a foreign nation wasn't enough to make affluent white Americans stop buying Hondas or Toyotas and put American made cars back on top. The civic and corolla are still rolling off the lots in the highest volume.
Then the reason is simpler....Because it's culture isn't as widely exported out compared to western countries and even China's neighbours....
Then why are Korea and Japan doing better, for example?
Enlightenment as Mass Deception" said:
The American one values it as having the choice between coke and Pepsi.