others have said a lot, but i just wanted to add

I’ve tried talking to a therapist about it but they just suggested that I try to stop identifying as Chinese and start identifying as American.

is ridiculous to the point of satire. It feels like something someone would satirically say rather than unironic advice from a therapist.

They are mutually exclusive. For an example of how China tackles religion: https://redsails.org/on-the-question-of-religion/

I wish you the happiest of birthdays comrade. Long live the revolution

Just finished finals, will have to wait to see how I did but I’m pretty proud of how it went.

This is actually quite interesting and makes a lot of sense. I’m a high schooler so a lot of the spaces I’m on are quite young and that kinda explains the different vibe of this platform.

Hmm for me a pretty recent 180 i took was on Deng Xiaoping. I was a commie but I really wasn’t super educated on the state of AES(even though i am part of the chinese diaspora) and was always under the impression that it was capitalism. That deng xiaoping turned china capitalist. Probably not really as big of an 180 as some other people here but really learning about china was really inspiring and restored my hope in the world ig. I feel way more patriotic towards china right than amerikkka.

Thinking of possibly doing my master’s in china after my undergrad.

TFU

thanks! Another reason to finally get around to reading imperialism i guess. Been meaning to for a while.

Can you expand on this? I haven’t read too much theory so i’m guessing this is something in capital?