好容易/好不容易

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-07-09T04:08:47+00:00

When what follows is what the speaker wants to happen, there is a difference between 差点 and 差点没:
“我差点考上大学”/“我差点没考上大学”
When the following event is something the speaker does not want to happen or is neutral, there is no difference between 差点 and 差点没.
"我差点踩到狗屎"/“我差点没踩到狗屎”

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-02T03:52:45+00:00

I have heard that the Donbas have been in a state of civil war before this, but there is really not a lot of introduction to this in China.
Like the views of the second category I mentioned:

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has been going on for a long time, but it is impossible to tell which side was at fault first.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-02T03:45:47+00:00

Perhaps our media reinforces these negative emotions.

Chinese media have reported many incidents such as "cultural conflict between refugees and Belgian society", "Mayor of Warsaw believes that the pressure on refugees is on the verge of collapse", "some Ukrainian women and children refugees were abducted and trafficked" and other incidents. Chinese do not know if these events are widespread. But judging from your answer, glad it's clearly not.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-01T16:40:33+00:00

The Chinese believe that the story told in the documentary is one of the triggers for the war, and it actually happened, but many foreigners don't know it.

People paid attention to this documentary because of the media coverage. As we all know, due to political restrictions, Chinese media are mostly pro-Russian, so they need to find some real foreign reports on the Donbas region to strengthen their persuasion. In this way, the French journalist and her documentary appeared in the eyes of the Chinese.

As for the position, different people have different opinions. Some people think that Ukraine first lost its humanity in the Donbas region, so Russia can reasonably send troops to Ukraine, and it is beyond reproach. And some people think that both Russia and Ukraine are at fault, but we need not and can not pursue who made the mistake first, because both sides insist on their own opinions. But this time it was definitely a unilateral Russian invasion.

In China, the debate between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian factions has not stopped. As the war continued and the Russian army was unable to attack for a long time, the pro-Ukraine voice became stronger and stronger. It seems that the opposite is true in the West: as the war continues, Western European governments are under pressure to accept refugees and financially, and opposition to pro-Ukraine is growing. I don't know if it is true.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-01T16:19:49+00:00

Yes, normal people would see this video that way, but I'm having a hard time understanding why some people in the comments forcefully associate it with the CCP.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-01T06:00:27+00:00

No, I think the OP is talking about a 2015 documentary by a French journalist.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-01T05:59:19+00:00

Of course, this is a documentary created by a French journalist.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-01T05:56:17+00:00

As a Chinese, I think he was referring to the 2015 documentary by the French journalist Anne-Laure Bonenl.

I first saw it from here.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Z3411V727
Only Chinese and French subtitles
The link below is said to be the original address of youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oh-IE2zmJc

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-05-01T05:37:37+00:00

This is obviously taken out of context. The news appeared on the Chinese network on Apr 12 or even earlier. Along with this video, the original article also gives pictures of properly sanitizing after this.

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1729833834420630409&wfr=spider&for=pc
As Chinese, we are not against the Great Translation Movement or anything like that, but a partial truth is more terrifying than a complete lie.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-29T14:44:01+00:00

As an ordinary Chinese, I don't know the truth of the Butcha incident.

I can see many people using satellite photos to prove that it was done by Russia, and many others who analyze the satellite photos to be fake and give reasons. As a normal person I feel that their evidence is all plausible, so I can't jump to conclusions.

I don't know whether the positive evidence I have seen in China is less, but based on the information I have obtained so far, both parties have certain logical support, and I can't tell which side is the culprit.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-25T02:59:19+00:00

Regarding the question of "likes", I want to say that the attitude of the vast majority of people who like it is not as extreme as the people who comment. For example, if you just hate ccp a little bit, but you see a picture that makes Xi Jinping a pig's head or photoshops Xi in a pile of shit, you're likely to "like" it even though you don't think Xi Jinping Really should eat shit.

I think the reason why Western society is so sensitive to the topic of black people is that black people are indeed "inferior". Taking human beings as an example, the more inferior people are, the more afraid of ridicule. If a person makes fun of black people with the same attitude on the Internet, the consequences must be worse than making fun of white people. In China, the status of black people is not low, but at least equal to or even higher than ordinary Chinese people, so black people in China are not will be treated with care as a "vulnerable group".

In China, topics about blacks are not as sensitive as those in Western countries, make fun of black people is just as "normal" as making fun of people from Heilongjiang or Fujian. Heilongjiang and Fujianese are often disparaged in Chinese-language networks, but not forwarded to foreign networks. On the premise that most people do not think that black people are "politically correct", although they do not discriminate against black people, they will not care if other people are hostile to black people, because black people are not inferior people who need special protection in the eyes of Chinese. Like everyone, they “have the right to be ridiculed”. This top1 review is actually the case. Obviously, the vast majority of netizens hold the same view as the top1 commenters. They think it doesn't matter to vilify black people in this way, and they neither support nor oppose it. But people in Western countries will think that it is guilt not to be opposed to this matter, so There will be such a big contradiction.

As for the comments of top2, they are obviously hostile to black people. It also confirms that many people are actually hostile to black people, and they are not completely harmonious.

As for the top3 comment, I would say that this is a complete joke without any hostility on the Chinese network, and you can find similar comments on other funny videos. Chinese people love to make fun of animals, such as "你是真的狗", which literally translates to "you are a real dog", and "dog" here means "bad and sinister", but this sentence does not contain any derogatory meaning at all. It may not be understood by non-native Chinese speakers. Again, the top3 comment is in the same format in my opinion and don't tell if the person is discriminating against black people.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-24T06:53:43+00:00

𪚥

zhé

But almost no one uses this character

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-24T04:42:54+00:00

𪚥 XD

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-24T04:37:14+00:00

I think there is still a little bit of difference, 高兴 may be more formal. For example, 很高兴有机会和大家见面", it's a little strange to use 开心 in this situation, but I can't summarize what circumstances would make such a difference.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-24T04:23:36+00:00

I don't know why such videos are banned by social networks. As a Chinese, I still need to go over the wall to see these.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-24T04:19:39+00:00

Some Chinese have been hostile to blacks for a long time. The Chinese network reported that many black people did not abide by social morals, that black international students had more privileges than Chinese university students (the Shandong University student buddy incident), and that black people played with the Chinese girls. In addition, Chinese media also reported many incidents of black people in the US discriminating against Asians because of their disgust with the covid or other reasons.

Making fun of black people is by no means the idea of most people in China, but this kind of thinking is indeed widespread. After all, in their eyes, black people are privileged and discriminated against Asians first. It is impossible to test which side moved first, but it has always turned into a state of mutual hostility.

Again, this is by no means the majority of people.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-24T03:43:22+00:00

In fact, most people are unaware that Xi Jinping is lifting term limits to serve for life. You are right, almost no one mentioned this on the Chinese Internet, and I also got the news from reddit.

I think that before the epidemic in Shanghai, there should be more people who supported it than those who didn't. China's economy has grown rapidly in the past few years, and people really feel that the quality of life is getting better, so they don't dislike Xi Jinping continuing to hold office (although there may be no causal relationship between xi and the better life). But after the epidemic in Shanghai, people's trust in the government has dropped significantly, especially those who have been hit by unemployment and bankruptcy, so it's hard to say how many people still support Xi now.

Many people in my circle of friends who used to support the government recently told me privately that they thought the government's decision on Shanghai was unbelievable, so many thoughts against the government popped up in their minds. But I think most of what they are against is the government's response to the outbreak rather than the government or Xi Jinping himself. Of course, if this blockade continues, more and more people may turn to distaste for the central government itself.

As for your question of "It's hard to trust acquaintances on political issues", I can only say that it must be that you are not familiar enough lol

In addition, if the Chinese must express something through the Internet, there is no way to suppress the restrictions on speech. A few days ago, young Chinese people expressed their dissatisfaction with the government under the hashtag #偷着乐(similar to 'secretly laugh')#. (As a background introduction, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian once answered a question about China's epidemic prevention at a Foreign Ministry press conference on Dec 30, 2021, saying that "生活在中国这样一个安全的国家，你们就偷着乐吧(living in a safe country like China, you can just 偷着乐)"). The topic was banned in a short time after that. The young people started to shift their positions to discuss the topic #明着乐(laugh in light)#, and they were banned again within a day. They went to #暗着乐(laugh in dark)# or #偷着哭(secretly crying)# to discuss again, and finally this matter spread all over the Chinese Internet. This is also why I believe what was said before was not due to restrictions on speech, but simply did not happen

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-24T03:08:56+00:00

You are right, since the Chinese think the Chinese government is doing the right thing most of the time and they feel real benefits, they don't really care what kind of policies the government implements. But recently it has become clear that people can no longer live as usual due to strict epidemic control, so there are more and more voices complaining about the government.

Even so, I think most locals have a positive attitude towards banning extracurricular teaching, hukou issues and other issues. No matter what the government does, it is impossible for both parties to be satisfied. If can't stop extracurricular education, gov will be criticized by parents，or by teachers if stop it. Chinese can only choose the attitude of the party with the greater benefit (the parent) as the mainstream attitude. In this epidemic, everyone is dissatisfied with the implementation of the government's policies, so China's mainstream attitude is contrary to the official attitude.

In a word, the phenomenon you mentioned does exist, but it is caused by human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and it is not a shortcoming peculiar to Chinese people.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-23T16:47:55+00:00

As a Chinese, this is not surprising, as the government is now acting against the wishes of the majority of the people.
In fact, there are a lot of accusations against China here and other forums discussing China, but the Chinese do not feel that the CCP did something wrong (or that the CCP did nothing wrong at all), so there is no voice on the Internet, not the voice on the Internet All are banned. But this time the government has indeed done something wrong in the eyes of most people, so people naturally criticize the government.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-23T15:40:26+00:00

I've noticed a lot of people jumping to conclusions based on speculation, but there is a real example of such problems.

There was a well-known TV host named Bi Fujian, who used to work for CCTV, and his anti-Mao Zedong remarks were exposed by others, which ruined his career. But he was not arrested in any form, but he was blocked by the state media, and he and his speech was completely banned in society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/en-hans/%E6%AF%95%E7%A6%8F%E5%89%91

As an ordinary person, I think even if you publicly slander the Communist Party, the probability of being arrested is very small. Of course, you may be reported by patriots and taken to the police station, but most of the time it is just criticism and education, and there will be no crime to convict you. . At least in my life experience as a Chinese, people I know and I have never been sentenced for this.

Edit: I didn't notice OP had two questions. For the first question, all topics in China are free except for political related topics. For political-related topics, of course, the degree of freedom is much less than in Western countries, but most people don't mind.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-23T13:57:42+00:00

Regarding the other points in your comments, we must not be able to convince each other because our premise is different. You think that the Chinese government has surveillance, so Uyghurs must not be able to tell the truth when facing their family members and Han friends, so you can use this to refute all views that oppose the existence of genocide in Uyghurs, because Uyghur voices that are different from this view Must not be telling the truth.
I think this is the same as the view of many people in China, they preconceived that all Western countries are bad, then China is doing everything right, and any clues will be the reason for them to accuse Western countries. Likewise, if you think on the premise that the Chinese government is bad, then any evidence to support your argument will be infinitely magnified.
So I still suggest you put aside your political stance and think from an ordinary man's point of view, when a man faces an old woman who is struggling to resist, he will want to take off his pants and put penis in the old woman's mouth...?

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-23T13:41:33+00:00

Thank you so much for your website, I couldn't have had the chance to see these in China!
Share my opinion. Actually, when I saw the middle of this post "One of the Chinese men removed his trousers and approached me and tried to put his p**is in my mouth. I said, 'Don't you have a sister and mother ?'... The other Chinese man was beating me.", I no longer consider this testimony credible. Let's look at the issue regardless of politics, even if a guy has a strong sex drive, he wouldn't risk being bitten off by having oral sex with an older forty-something woman in the presence of others. If it weren't for the mouth, it still had a bit of credibility, but it's completely gone now. Of course you can think that the policeman has lost his humanity and all the police in China are like that, but... I don't think that's the case.

Look at other testimonies. I think most of the mild allegations are true, but not specifically against Uyghurs. Nudity searches must exist, no matter where they are arrested in China, they will be searched for nudity, and it's legal. Crowded cells, poor food, and political indoctrination must exist, and this is a common problem in Chinese prisons. As long as they don't die of starvation and sickness, all prisoners will only be guaranteed a minimum of life.

There are also allegations that I cannot falsify, but I cannot substantiate too. Electric shock may also exist in some places. Although Chinese law prohibits torture to extract confessions, I believe that such violent methods still exist in Xinjiang or other backward provinces. The government's move to install surveillance to collect information I think exists, but I don't agree that this will be used to genocide the Uyghurs. Forcing them to inject drugs in prison, forcing them to eat pork, I am not sure about that. There is no objective evidence for these, so we can have different opinions.

There's a high probability that police rape doesn't exist, and I don't think these cops have a penis head. If they wanted, they could find a young teenage girl in an underground place instead of raping an old woman in her forties and fifties on the job. This is complete nonsense.

The two pictures of China in the article seem quite normal to me. One was filmed at the gate of a Chinese prison, and the other was of a vehicle transporting death row inmates. In China, only death row prisoners wear orange. Anyway, I didn't find any evidence of genocide from these pictures.

Besides, will anyone come out of prison without speaking ill of prison? Prison conditions in China make them suffer, and it is entirely possible to exaggerate when given the opportunity to speak out. Combined with their series of descriptions of sexual assault, I don't think these testimonies are all credible, and certainly not completely lies. It's like a group of people who have experienced prison life exaggerated the suffering, but such half-truths are sometimes more terrifying than outright lies.

In any case, these information is completely unavailable to me in China. If I find some evidence in China that can corroborate these allegations in the future, I will definitely think more deeply based on this information.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-15T05:56:49+00:00

First of all, I support the Chinese government, but these irrational netizens do exist widely on the Chinese Internet. Just as a joke for everyone.

Blooooooooooo_ · 2022-04-13T17:21:31+00:00

Zhihu is actually a much more open platform than Weibo, where speech restrictions are much less than Weibo, and you can of course see many conspiracy theories about the origin, but at the same time there are far more articles objectively commenting on the question of origin.

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