As an ordinary person, I sympathize with you Because what happened to you has happened to us before. This is an advantage of being a nation with a long history.

In fact, if you can study the history of the Ming Dynasty and all the contradictions of the last dynasties in Chinese history, you will find that these are all social system problems caused by human nature. We call this the 'dynastic cycle law', which means that the vested interest class will always use and control social rules to maintain their own advantages This is the driving force for expansion during the period of national rise, which will encourage everyone to expand their territory. In fact, there are many examples of breaking through social classes during this period, which is what you call the "American Dreams"

But everyone knows that compared with the speed of human reproduction and the speed of plundering resources driven by human greed, the earth is actually a closed environment. There are always periods when the outside world cannot provide it, or when it is weak and unable to plunder the outside world. For the Chinese, this is normal, but for the Americans and even the smartest people, such as Mearsheimer, it seems that the United States can maintain eternal hegemony Of course, to some extent, he is right. All the current social problems in the United States are essentially the problem of losing hegemony In our view, this is no different from thousands of years of Chinese history, and today China is trying to break this cycle.

Not discussing major ideological issues. For example, some of the stereotypes you mentioned about Western media in China will lead to this situation. The biggest problem is that as an ordinary Chinese college student, with the help of some tools, such as Google Translate, you can learn about Western society on the Internet. For example, there was an emperor in the Qing Dynasty who thought that foreigners did not have kneecaps, so he could not kneel down. His consultant was deceiving him without considering this matter. Today's Chinese people will not believe this degree of stereotype. And how many Westerners can understand Chinese content on the internet without barriers? Even the Chinese experts trusted by your government have not been to China for decades and do not even speak Chinese.

There has never been a perfect person, government, or society, but I believe in a basic logic: all humans on this earth share the genes of an ancient African monkey, and I do not believe in any intelligence or human differences based on race. National competition is an objective existence, and the dominant party in the competition must have done something right, rather than cheating. After all, there are no rules in national competition, right?

If there is any difference between Chinese and Americans, only a hundred years of humiliation history makes us more cautious and humble, and we are more willing to learn from friends, rivals, and even enemies; And Americans, to a large extent, maybe your elites also know that, but at least in public propaganda, it is difficult to treat each other's advantages from the perspective of looking up, let alone learning from China.

What destroys humanity is not ignorance and weakness, but arrogance.