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The use of "conservative" here doesn't seem to refer to political alignment. It is common to talk about "conservative business culture" and "conservative dress" to refer to cultural factors — exactly around things like expecting suits and ties. The parent post does not appear to be talking about politics.

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Fair enough. Maybe be more specific next time in this highly politicized world?

In a thread on about a chinese vlogger and techie, in a comment about a german company, maybe your perspective could be a bit more cosmopolitan?

Because the general idea of conservatism doesn’t exist in either of these countries? Try again.

There is no general idea of conservatism though. What's conservative in China, or Germany, or the US, it's radically different.

There are only specific cultural understandings, each of which almost always map poorly when applied cross culturally.

> There is no general idea of conservatism though.

That’s just untrue and shows a misunderstanding of what conservatism is, which is about small gov and a return to the roots of said gov. While individual beliefs of how this should be achieved will very between the different nations, the general concept is the same.

See, that's the point. That's only _American_ conservatism. It's not what a CDU represents in Germany, nor what Die Mitte represents in Switzerland - both of which are decidedly conservative parties.

And Chinese politics seems to be even more difficult to talk about than Europe, and that's not even accounting for the fact it doesn't have democratic elections and has a one party system.

From the little I understand, it's complex and dynamic and opaque to the point that current scholars and US government entities studying China have difficulty explaining it; I'm not even going to try.

Look at Hong Kong, not just mainland China

The CDU isn’t a conservative group, they’re listed as liberal-conservative, or center-right. So not the same.

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