I spent 30 years living as a liberal and like every liberal I hated China. I was this annoying "democracy tho" and "Uyghur tho" type. Now that I'm a communist I really wish to go to China as a tourist, maybe even live there for a while. As a liberal, I reposted a lot of BBC-level propaganda about China on facebook like 5 years ago. Is there any speech I can be punished for in China even though I don't support this reposted stuff anymore? Did anyone here go to China after being a liberal?
The upside is that China is a normal country with normal people in it. It's not one big prison or monitoring hellscape or whatever nonsense liberals believe.
The downside is that China is a normal country with normal people in it. Expect to find people just living their lives and hanging out. Expect to find diverse political opinions, most of which center around a vaguely leftish nationalism. You don't need to be worried about acting incorrectly unless you start physical fights or something.
Bro/broette/br-non-bronary, I was the same a few years ago, and I’m in China right now and have had the time of my life. Learn more Chinese than you think you need. I did 6 months of daily practice and I struggle greatly talking to people.
The visa requirements were vastly loosened like a week after I got mine, I hear it is pretty easy these days, but you still have to either go to a consulate or pay a service to go for you.
Money, I can’t help with, but paying for things here I use my western card with Alipay. I’d recommend having some cash for places that don’t take western cards, or trying to set up WeChat pay, but I never got around to it.
I say skip Duolingo, and use HelloChinese, the biggest thing I struggle with is hearing what people say, especially when they have an accent that doesn’t match what Duolingo has. HelloChinese has live actors for their speech, and that seems to help a lot. There’s other apps and things, but I’m not too familiar with most of them.
I’m honestly planning on getting a private tutor when I go back home to really drill my listening and talking skills, because as it is I’m basically mute even though I can read pretty well I think for how long I’ve been practicing.
As long as you're not associated with a terrorist group like ETIM you'll be fine. China cares first and foremost that you follow their laws while you're in China. The US and UK are much more paranoid about background checks of your online activity, it's them you should be worried about if you ever want to go there, they may even outright hack and scan your phone when you go through security if you're from a country they don't like or just look "suspicious", and we all know what counts as "looking suspicious"...
Is there any speech I can be punished for in China even though I don't support this reposted stuff anymore?
Did anyone here go to China after being a liberal?
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I've got some terrible news for you
The CCP will lock you up the minute you step foot off the plane. They don't have like we do here. Keep to the democratic side of the world, kid. Go to Japan or SK where the Freedom Index ™️ isn't in the dumpster and you can still tell your friends you spent some time in the Orient.
Okay I may have memed a little hard for the comradeship com. seriously though for all intents and purposes, China is just a country that has dumbasses like me travel to it all the time. A country with the:
oldest civilization in the world
biggest cities in the world
most advanced technology in the world
best intranational transit system in the world
best food in the world
Simply put it would be a mistake to deprive yourself of experiencing such an incredible place