Okay this is gonna probably make absolutely zero sense, but I’m gonna try and explain:
(This might cause some brain damage and you might lose a few braincells from reading this)
For context, most of my family are US Citizens, we were all born in China.
My mom (and my dad, somewhat) is just so big on “Tough on crime”, whenever there were alleged lootings during protests, my parents would be okay with them getting shot to death. Constantly blame “Democrats” for crime and the “migrant crisis”. Also love their Wechat and constantly play (Chinese) nationalistic songs and other propaganda on the fucking speaker. Also, if you are dealing with severe depression, and temporarily can’t work, they call you a “廢柴”, basically the cantonese term equivalent of the term “useless eater”.
My brother is into some crazy conspiracy theory that the Chinese Government is in a conspiracy to replace Han Chinese with, not only Chinese ethnic minorities, but African Migrants (like wtf dude), basically the equivalent of the “white replacement conspiracy theory” but in China instead (yea it sounds insane, doesn’t it? Like… buddy, China doesn’t even give permanent residency to foreigners, what the fuck is this insane conspiracy theory? Also, he’s a US Citizen, why the fuck does he care?). Simultaneously, he opposes racism from white people in the US (… some crazy hypocrisy, isn’t it? 🤨).
Tell me this isn’t just me with the most insane family in the world.
China totally does, if you’re either employed for 3+ years with a master’s degree and annual salary above 500-800k RMB (depending on the province) or with a bachelor’s and 5+ years work experience (same income requirements), OR have a PhD and are employed by a company listed on a Chinese (not HK) stock exchange or a government owned company/entity in a higher R&D function (no income requirements), OR are married to a Chinese and have been working for 7+ years in China (no income or education requirements).
Source: Used to live in China, qualified for 2/3 pathways and my company kept pushing me to accept residency (which I refused to be able to withdraw my social security accounts upon my planned departure).
But I digress.
Due to my Chinese wife I have quite a few touching points with “offshore Chinese” as she calls them, and there are quite a few insane ones among the diaspora. The “glory to China, but I wouldn’t ever live there again” types, mostly.
And yeah those wechat hymns and crap from douyin is omnipresent. We avoid those people like the plague, but every once in a while some of them show up to events hosted by saner people and spew their bullshit.