The British chav? Thankfully I don’t encounter them here. They’re not in my circles. The British academic? Definitely in my circles.
Or do you mean other stereotypes even beyond those?
Arrogant and pompous. More but let’s not bother. Academics in general can be pompous.
I thought my previous comment covered that, just in different words. Anyway, I don’t want to pick on or offend any Brits here. I’ve met a couple down-to-earth ones. Well, actually… just one. And she was Welsh, not blue blood English.
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I couldn’t be bothered going down that route so I stopped at that 
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I’m watching the episode now ,.It’s very well done.
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Most Brits I know are quite down to earth. The most arrogant ones are the Swiss. They’ve actually said the words “Switzerland is perfect”. Cringe.
Anyway I didn’t finish the clip. Idk, I wasn’t really entertained. Maybe some other time.
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It goes around
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Nothing in there that someone who lives here doesn’t know, 20 minutes of stuff you already know is kind of boring. The heavy metal band talking about “Chinese fucking Taipei” did make me smile, I hope that becomes a thing.
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His audience though is not primarily in Taiwan. It’s people who have heard of this place, and seen the news about Chinese aggression, and are open to learning more. In that sense, it was quite good!
Guy
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Not every John Oliver deepdives are engaging, but there are quite a few memorable ones.
Off the top of my head, I can still remember these episodes:
Oh my god, that was 6 years ago… WTF.
Oh my god, that was 4 years ago!?
There’s also that one episode about Chechen’s Ramzan Kadyrov and his lost cat, but I can’t find it.
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I watched it to boost the algorithm. We want more Americans to know about this because we want them to know that democracy and their computers are in danger. Governments aren’t gonna act without popular support.
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The one on death penalty is pretty good.
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Thought this was done well and the political narrative was pretty accurate. Was worried was going to veer off into romantic notions that a lot of foreigners have , but stayed on track as a good outline of actual situation.
Remember listening to Joe Rogan a while ago and someone recommended he had Audrey Tang on to talk about media infiltration, he said he would love to. That could be a good opportunity to explain Taiwan’s case to mainstream demographic
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It’s not an easy line to walk. Unfortunately, the last few years of US politics has made everything “you said this, therefore i must disagree with you”. When I tell my most progressive friends that absolutely NO ONE that grew up in China should be trusted, they try to remind me that “people are not their government”. This is true in most places (sadly, considering how many democracies do not represent their people), but it is not true in China. Absolutely EVERYONE in China IS a threat to humanity. The problem is that this is due to CCP brainwashing, not some genetic issue. So you say “Chinese people cannot be trusted” and white supremacists decide to attack all the Asians they see in the US, regardless of their ethnicity or how many generations their family has been in the US. Again, it’s not a “panda hugger” issue. It’s a problem with messaging that isn’t getting out. Blaming China for COVID became an excuse for attacks against Asians. I’d have loved to have sucker punched a few Chinese people I know who live in the US who have nothing nice to say about the US, but that doesn’t mean all Asians deserve that, only the CCP trolls, which you can’t figure out just by looking at. The fact that the GOP, gleefully locking up children at the US-Mexico boarder, broke the news that a MUSLIM minority group wasn’t being treated nicely in China REALLY didn’t help with messaging. If everyone wasn’t so insistent on divisive politics, I’d say everyone but the CCP sleeper agents in the US would agree that China is not a good place. Sadly, that’s not how politics in the US works. Everything has to be “us vs them”. So there’s no United front when there could easily be one. And the CCP knows that
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Seriously?
I think you should maybe reassess a little there. I’m not sure how to respond to that but possibly ruminate on what your friends are saying a bit.
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There are a lot of people in China that disagree with the CCP, perhaps not openly and publicly, but I am sure they are there. There are probably a lot of people even in the CCP who don’t agree with the official party line.
Yes, but dare they say anything when the time comes?
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I’m sorry, this is just ridiculous.
You think Tibetans and Uyghurs facing the brunt of the state apparatus are the threats? Or dissident Han like Ai Weiwei? Come on there are lots of obvious exceptions to this very sweeping statement.
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The CIA has a fucking abysmal record of arresting and ruining the lives of innocent Chinese and Chinese Americans working in the US. Sometimes these people end up radicalized and working for the CCP as a result of the treatment from the US government.
Basically if you cant distinguish yourself from a totalitarian state and start to behave like one, then where is the moral highground to criticise China?Considering every Chinese as a sleeper cell for the CCP is wrong and also a dangerous road to go down.
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what time?
Do you have proof of this.