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Most Chinese have probably never given a thought as to whether they are pro science or not. That seems to be more an American preoccupation. My Chinese relatives have all sorts if unscientific beliefs based around food and folk superstitions, and they are highly educated.

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This might be well true, but they are also likely to believe science as well. It's just the two live in an easy parallel where one isn't necessarily valued over the other-- good or bad.

In the US the camps are FIRMLY pro or against science or many other topics, so things get alot more polarized.

I don't think US camps are anti-science as much they are against a small subset of science which disagrees with their religious beliefs. There are no anti-relativity or anti-magnetism groups as far as I know.

In China there are plenty of anti-vaxxers as well as a large number who would balk at anything implying being gay is biologically normal. They can't really form groups for this sort of thing, obviously, so you don't hear about it as much.

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