Does chinese animation lack productions of culture?

Your "the top unit that governs the lower ones" quote really makes me appreciate your sense of humor.

To explain:


This is true, but "spiritual" as used here does not have anything to do with religion; it's more like "corrupting the minds of the people."

Back when China was actually a communist country, some of the country's leaders got this idea that anything "Western," "bourgeoisie," and "indulgent" was "spiritual pollution" (精神污染). This would include obscenity, gambling, drugs, and so on, in addition to certain more liberal philosophies such as humanism. They thought that this spiritual pollution would undermine China's transition to a communist utopia: if the minds of the average people are polluted with capitalist ideas, how can we build a society where everyone lives in harmony? And, yes, this means that the notion of "spiritual pollution" is largely reactionary to Western progressive ideas at the time.

However, the term "精神污染" was never really defined clearly, since both conservative and progressive politicians were campaigning against this supposed bad thing. This is why it often seem very conservative, even though China was both secular and radically left at the time.

Nowadays, China is for all purposes not left-leaning or communist at all; it is instead rather conservative. So, "culture" and sexualization continue to be censored through this inherited notion of them being "bad for morals."

It's really interesting how what normally would be called "puritanism" by MAL users arose in a secular country through reactionary, anti-capitalist sentiments alone. I suppose Confucianism and Taoism didn't help either, but traditional values have collapsed just about everywhere else in the world when actually put up against with progressive ideas.

Censorship will make people gradually more curious, so censorship is the direct opposite of ignorance in so many instances.

Censorship in China is more like "be careful with this particular kind of knowledge", not "you don't need to know about it".

It's more like "you know it, but don't talk about it in private or public spaces, time will tell that it will be reconciled eventually, but always oppose propaganda from Western countries and pro-American countries in Asia because these countries just want China to become weak again as they're using human rights and democracy as piss poor excuses".

As a person with a Chinese heritage, I sense this all the time. If that's worse, wait until you read this. I don't talk to South Korean men because they often say in public "let's kill Chinese people" or "the only good Chinese is dead Chinese" in Korean.

That's the first time I heard about this accusation, sounds like propaganda itself, to be fair.

Sounds extreme, they probably do that because the Chinese government supports their northern archenemy.

@Zarutaku, I would say it's a rhetoric that's not without historical grievances. China at the turn of the 20th century suffered sovereignty crises, internal strife, and traumatic incidents one after another. The historical events that unfolded have had a profound impact on the Chinese people and their perception of what a government should do on its own soil to preserve its sovereignty. It's something that's exposed to every Chinese person via school or family.

The degree to which these historical events can be (sometimes turned) into nationalist ideals varies from person to person. But every Chinese person is at least taught the insights from that period to the current state of China. I, for one, while were exposed to these historical events, they were then tempered by my family to ensure not to develop a pure nationalistic view. And I think this is very much the main contemporary attitude of the Chinese people in the mainland, for example.

Yes, I do agree it's propaganda, but it's not without truth.

@LordSozin Understandable, but grudges based on historical events shouldn't be perpetuated, they hinder reconciliation and other peaceful developments.

Sort of like that.



Not really true as well. People should really stop painting the Chinese government as an evil entity so easily. We are already living in a world when Western style democracy is becoming more oppressive than "Chinese communism".



China's beauty standard is much low in contrast to South Korea's beauty standard.

Very true.



It helps that I'm very close to both sides of my family. I'm a literal result of the 2 very different cultural realms, but communicating between the 2 cultural spheres isn't a hard task.

The saddest thing I regularly witness is the shenanigans in the current news and "somewhat academic teahouse" Discord server I'm in where some people from Indonesia and the Philippines blindly praise the West as a paradise despite the current state of the West is not really that great. I gave up explaining to them how my relatives in Quebec are experiencing so many injustices in their daily lives. It ain't the pre-9/11 world of the 90s, people.

And those particular people I described also have a very positive and ideal impression on Japan due to their fondness or more like obsession for manga and anime. C'mon, I work with a person in Japan and she often explains to me that it's like hell in Kobe and surrounding areas. Japan ain't like a very happy isekai world. Same for any other countries around the world. This is called reality.

I know for a lot of people here the whole notion of culture is basically limited to (child) porn. But that's a you problem, not a china problem