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If there is tofu dreg in the construction, the architect and builders are gonna charged with a genocide. (if building collapse, thousands die)
And this is not because American propaganda or whatever. My family is from mainland China and my mother told me about all those tofu-dreg stuff. To be very clear, this is not the people's fault, its not individuals being "lazy", its a systematic issue. There's so much corruption and bribery.
Food safety is another one of the big issues. For a supposedly "socialist" government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by "a lot" I mean jack shit.
I'm suspecting if my older brother is being an asshole because he lived there like approximately 5 years longer there and suffered some food poisoning (like maybe lead) or something and totally has zero empathy. Parents are also shitty. I mean there has got to be lead or something.
(No I did not live in one of these mega buildings lol, mine was more like a 10 story building, no elevators, lackluster of safety barriers. I hate that place lol, so much bad memories of my abusive older brother.)
It's locust mentality, same thing happens in India or any country with high density + a culture of low trust.
If the CCP wasn't headed by morons like Mao (and Xi by extension, who for some unfathomable reason wants to emulate him) who brought the destruction of Confucius teachings and heritage through the cultural revolution and terrible economic policies, they had a baseline culture to foster a more cohesive and trusting society.
I'm reading "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future", which I think is a great book, and one of its themes, that probably seems strange to Americans, is that China is more capitalist than the United States right now.
For instance, from what I read, the CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy, and the little that exists is not only incredibly corrupt but requires a degrading means testing process that even the worst American conservative would think goes too far.
But I've never lived in China so you may know better about that.
Exactly lol, this is what I've been saying.
That's my parent's view on welfare. These views carried over to the US too. Its why they see a headline about "illegal immigrants" to the US and they start blaming welfare and think that "illegal" immigrants are somehow getting welfare and they think its taking away resources from legal immigrants. Its why they think me having depression is "weakness". My mother told me she hates autistic people because she thinks they are "dangerous". Like people with disabilities get would disowned by a lot of parents. If you have any disabilities, you don't get viewd as a person, but a 廢柴 (I'd say it's equivalent to "useless eater"). Its so messed up.
They cracked down on people cleaning cooking oil and reselling it as food oil again, they executed the people responsible for poisonous baby formula, they seem to do something when it becomes noisy.
I got mild food poisoning in China less frequently than in Korea or Vietnam.
I can't compare to Japan, because while the food safety seems very good, its not because of regulation, restaurants there don't even have regular inspections.