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I cannot believe someone posted this on HN.

Yup, hating China is cool these days... people that have never been there nor understand the language or the culture are the ones that share all of this non-sense.

There is plenty of legitimate criticism to be made of the resurgence of Chinese nationalism - just as there is for American and Russian nationalism.

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

And, we criticize American and Russian nationalism here. Why can't we criticize Chinese nationalism?

(And, yes, there is danger of painting with too broad a brush, no matter which nation's nationalism we are criticizing. Not everyone there is a nationalist, for any value of "there".)

Since when is criticizing a national government or it's policies == hating an entire country? Not to mention the author was born and raised in China... I would also be careful in raising the assumption that most people reading FP (or for that matter HN) have never been to or lived in China.

Edit: typo

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