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It's funny that you comment on the story of someone being jailed for being an activist with essentially "shut up it's none of your business"

The idea of taking care of your own backyard seems pretty similar to the old Soviet Union deflection whenever they were met with criticism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Many countries have issues, people should be able to criticise even if their own situations aren't perfect.

You talk about the majority position. But what about these minorities? Do they feel the same way?

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No, I am not talking about someone being jailed for being activist. On that front, HK has its own laws and I respect that, the same way I respects US law and law in mainland China. I hope you would also respect the HK law being applied to HK residents.

I am specifically replying to the comment where the person wants to "help" China.

> You talk about the majority position. But what about these minorities? Do they feel the same way?

Many countries don't have the obsession over multiculturalism that America seems to have. Their priority isn't to have a diverse population, but rather is to raise the quality of life for as many people as possible as quickly as possible, hence the focus on the majority of the population. A homogeneous culture has many benefits during growth, like lower interpersonal conflict. Concepts like democracy and freedom mean very little if the quality of life is low.

Why is this being downvoted?

Multiculturalism is taught since grade school in America and is seen as the only way to structure a society by most in the country. I actually often get called a racist when I mention to other people that it isn't the only way.

edit: I do find it interesting that this comment was downvoted. For those of you downvoting me, could you please explain why? Was my critique on multiculturalism not the reason my post above was downvoted?

because it's a defense of an authoritarian regime?

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