Ask Lemmy

People lack nuance.

Its basically the opposite of Cuban Americans, who lived in a self-proclaimed "communist" regime and therefore hates anything remotely associated with "the left", and thinks conservatism is somehow "pro-freedom".

Tankies on the internet are mostly westerners who, because they disagree with the way their country does things, decides to hate everything about their country and "the west" in favor of the "other side"

It's Campism

As a Chinese-American, I see through the bullshit of both China and the US, the different flavors of nationalism, I have my own experience in the first decade of my life there, as well as my relatives' direct testimonies, including two of them who are my parents who, even tho has biases in worldview, generally has truthful information, and also my aunts who are still in China and has regular contact with my parents, and the various friends of my parent who frequently travel to and from China, that, along with my experience growing up in the US, I have a more knowledged worldview than either a Mainland Chinese who spent their entire life in China, or a Westerner who've never lived life in China from the PoV of a local.

I know that both countries have their issues, but I do know that, it's a consensus amongst the Chinese Diaspora (those that I know, anyways) that western countries are typically better than whatever "communist" (which isn't even communist, they are State Capitalist) thing they got going on in China. The west isn't perfect, xenophobia and racism does exist, as always when you mix people from different backgrounds, but if you get over that hurdle, find somewhere relatively liberal/progressive, things are usually better. And also I know enough about what the acual economic system in the "communist" country is actually like, and not become an idiot that supports far-right "anti-communists" xenophobes, like... wtf people, stop siding against your own right to live in the country.

Most people don't get the opportunity to live in both worlds, and lack of information is how people form those extremist views, either completely believes that their country is always right all the time, or completely believes their country is always wrong all the time and that therefore the other side is right. Reality is much more nuanced.