The data is coming from the world's largest democracy perception study, published by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (a Danish-based non-profit organisation).
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Yes, and after time on RedNote, I believe it's because of them simply believing what western media says about it, but since they're not also living in it, they don't get to also see the negatives.
You’re misunderstanding. The infographic is saying that Chinese people consider China a democracy at a higher rate than Westerners consider their own countries democracies.
In my experience though you’re not entirely wrong; lots of Chinese still romanticise the west in many respects, though I also know many who’ve lived abroad and realised that it’s not as rosy as they had imagined.
I met a Chinese exchange student at my local college Palestine encampment last year. He was finishing up his masters and was about to go back to China after having been here a few years. He said in China he was a pro-west liberal who thought Marxism was outdated and the party was silly, but after seeing America in such detail he became a dedicated Marxist-Leninist and anti-imperialist who wore a hammer and sickle medallion everywhere and was planning to join the party when he returned. I hope he followed through.
Sweet arc. Reminds me of the story Parenti tells about ppl in the soviet bloc hoping that with the fall of the USSR, that they would gain the consumer cornucopia of the west, but get to keep all the social services, job security, and quality of life they had gained through socialism (they didn't gain the first, and lost the 2nd).
This comrade got to see first hand the US's horrible inequality and poverty, and that the chinese marxists were correct.
Yeah, I majorly misunderstood the graphic, thank you