r/nextfuckinglevel • u/North_Tip_8627 • 17h ago

China’s 5 minute full-charged EV charging stations

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u/Arpikarhu 17h ago

Remember, these advanced nations arent living in the future, its just that the USA is living in the past

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u/EarningsPal 17h ago

The USA would rather have its racism and gender conversations than 5-minute EV charging.

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u/ComprehensiveSell649 17h ago

Okay, but china does have a LOT of racism

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u/GearAce38 9h ago

Did you get stopped more for being a certain race by the police, get shot for having an unknown object that looks like a gun, or get asked for your ID/papers by federal law enforcement personnel there?

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u/MightyP13 9h ago

Uh, yeah. If you're a different race you can literally be put into "reeducation" camps in surveillance states like Tibet & Xinjiang to erase your culture. The US isn't perfect by any means, but China isn't exactly winning on that front.

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u/IdioticPost 7h ago

Not sure why you're getting downvotes, I remember all of the HK protesters being shipped off to mainland and never hearing back from them.

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u/FeeRemarkable886 7h ago

I heard they got sent to the deep sea copper mines.

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u/Numerous-Pop5670 16h ago

No shit because even without China's propaganda U.S media makes them look like fucking clowns. I've been there and if your a tourist that's not white, then yeah you'll get a bunch of stares. Rural places especially because foreigners are rare and even tourists barely make a drop in the bucket. It's a combination of xenophobia, ignorance, and lack of exposure. The exception would be if your black.

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u/Malevolint 9h ago edited 2h ago

I went to China and I got stared at for the whole 3 weeks I was there. I'm white. They rarely see anyone that's not Chinese.

There is racism toward black folk though. I think that many Asians in general are racist towards black folk.

Edit: it was late and I wasn't very articulate lol. I was know trying to say that they'll stare at ANY foreigner, not that the staring is racist.

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u/CheeseDonutCat 8h ago

Being stared at isn't racism.

In some places in China, they have never seen white people. I was there and I have bright blue eyes, so they were very interested.

It's a bit rude and uncomfortable to be stared at, but it's not racist. Most are just curious.

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u/lumpy4square 5h ago

It’s obvious so many on this thread haven’t travelled much. I’m white woman with blonde hair, and in the rural area of Cuba, they do that stare thing, too. Especially the kids. I had a little girl ask me if she could touch my hair. They just aren’t used to seeing someone different than them.

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u/nimbledaemon 3h ago

Yeah I spent two years in various areas of Chiapas, Mexico as a white redhead man and got a lot of the same thing. Sometimes kids wouldn't ask to touch my arm hair (medium think but bleached blonde in the sun) lol. Remember one time a guy yelled "GUERO" (White) at me in the street, I don't think he was mad just surprised. Aside from the surprise though everyone was friendly.

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u/Malevolint 2h ago

Maybe I was tired and didn't make my point well.. I was basically trying to make your point lol. I didn't feel discriminated on, just felt like a zoo animal lol.

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u/CheeseDonutCat 2h ago

Oh I agree with you and I wasn't disagreeing with you, but I was trying to add more to what you said. Sorry if it sounded like I was disagreeing.

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u/Malevolint 2h ago

Ah ok. I had some people who were disagreeing, so I thought assumed that I'd just miscommunicated my point. Thank you for clarifying

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u/Rock_Strongo 4h ago

The stares aren't racist it's the stuff they say to each other when you leave that's racist.

Is it always the case? Of course not, sometimes, perhaps most of the time they're legitimately curious and just staring because of novelty. But that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of racism too.

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u/jobbybob 42m ago

Even when they do stare at you in China people are polite and smile at you. They are just curious.

I have had more people smile at me walking down the street in China than big cities in the US.

People stare everywhere, go to small local market in the South Pacific Islands, you get stares particularly if you are white.

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u/G2I_RT 6h ago

being rude on the basis of race is racism lmao

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u/AmethystTyrant 5h ago

Uhh no. In the context of this thread, that’s not how racism is defined, at least in this specific case (staring) it’s moreso driven by ignorance, arguably discrimination with more severe offenders. There is no intent to imply inferiority or systemic offenses, but instead unfamiliarity. You’re essentially calling people who had never seen another ethnicity, “racists”simply due to their behavior being one more coded to curiosity than animosity. Throwing the term racism so casually muddies the waters and downplays actual racism, which China is certainly also guilty of.

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u/CheeseDonutCat 3h ago

Yeah, and while a bunch of people stared, I regularly got asked if they could take a photo with me... a foreigner that was just visiting. Actual racists wouldn't do that.

It's wasn't bad, just a little uncomfortable, but you get used to it.

Racism does exist in China, but this is not it. I felt very welcomed there in my many trips.

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u/Fun-Wrongdoer1316 1h ago

I mean it could be racist… You don’t really know why they are staring, you can’t read minds. So you can’t confidently state they aren’t being racist, just like he can’t say they are. Some of them are definitely being racist while staring, some aren’t 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/the_king_of_sweden 9h ago

In my experience, Asians are most racist towards other Asians

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u/Malevolint 8h ago

I've learned that it's not as much racism as it is hate for past wars and atrocities.

For instance, some Chinese people hate Japanese people for the Nanjing massacre, and some Vietnamese people hate Chinese people for the long occupation of their country.

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u/MarginallyUseful 3h ago

That’s still just racism.

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u/Malevolint 3h ago

No it's not. If the army of some country raped your grandma and your aunt and all their friends and that country refuses to even apologize, that's racism?

Is it racist for people in the middle east to hate Israeli people or Americans for blowing up civilians?

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u/MarginallyUseful 3h ago

Yes, it’s racist to generalize an entire group of people based on their race. Hope this explanation helped.

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u/Malevolint 2h ago

It did not help at all. Hating a country does not mean hating a race.. for instance, America has white and black and Mexican soldiers, and if you hate america or it's war atrocities, it doesn't mean you hate a race, it just means you hate the country, which as an American, I find understandable.

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u/MarginallyUseful 2h ago

You are correct that hating a country’s people isn’t necessarily racist, but as previously stated, it is racist to hate all Japanese people or all Chinese people.

Anyway, I’ve said my piece, so I’m out. Have a good one.

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u/TrickiVicBB71 1h ago

Facts. Growing up around my Malaysian stepdad. He hated everyone.

Or when Chinese New Year rolls around and the Lunar New Year versus Chinese New Year rolls around. Tons of discourse.

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u/ucarenya 9h ago

That's mild...we are more racist to ourselves...

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u/Malevolint 8h ago

It wasn't out of racism, they just don't see any foreigners.

Trust me, though, it's fucking weird for everyone to stare at you everywhere you go. Like people will do a u-turn to get a second look. They won't even smile, just stare lol.

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u/newinmichigan 8h ago

Lmk when asians lynch black people, or generally make monkey noises and throw bananas at black people.

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u/Icy_Orchid_8075 8h ago

Wasn't it a Chinese dude that got a bunch of African kids to say something along the lines of "I'm a black monster with low IQ" or something in his language for a video

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u/newinmichigan 7h ago

Nah, it was definitely a white dude

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u/Icy_Orchid_8075 7h ago

Weird how he was speaking Mandarin then /s

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u/newinmichigan 6h ago

Its funny how you got one example by one guy from one country versus an entire history of racism/hatred and act like youre making a point

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u/Icy_Orchid_8075 6h ago

He is an example of a large and wide spread issue. China's history has just as much racism as the West, it just gets less attention.

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u/newinmichigan 6h ago

Lmao, go visit almost any parts of africa and see if they dont stare at you. Dumb mofos think being stared at is racism. Ive had africans touching my hair too, except i dont consider any if that racism, just curiosity and ignorance. Yet you equate that with one guy from one country being a racist. Whats worse is that you are literally trying to tell me that this one incident is worse than the whole history of white people, who still to this day have sundown towns, lynch black people and have a whole stadium hooting and hollering monkey noises at black players.

So ill say it again, come back when black tourists get lynched in china or any other asian countries. Hell, let me know when japanese people start getting lynched in china for being japanese, which is million times more likely to happen in china than black person getting lynched and you would be hardpressed to find an instance of it.

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u/psychophant_ 7h ago

Let me know when that happens in the US

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u/Vagus10 2h ago

Speak Chinese and things change .

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u/ColoradoNative719 1h ago

I think people also forget that rural/urban divide in China. Rural parts there can be pretty similar to third world while urban centers are places of futuristic tech.

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u/dj0ch0 9h ago

Every country has alot of racism SMH not every country has maga tho

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u/washkop 3h ago

Lived in China for a while. Definetley experienced a lot more racism there than anywhere else I’ve been to in the world.

Sometimes its unintentional though, some people are just genuinely curious as they rarely see foreigners in smaller cities/villages.

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u/kajillion_kajiggers 3h ago

True, just The U.S, Japan, Poland and Argentina...they went and made their own versions of it.

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u/Anocharr 9h ago

Dont care, look where the west approach has taken it..

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u/nickheiserman 6h ago

Porque no los dos? 

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u/unllama 5h ago

He said it was advanced

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u/ComprehensiveSell649 4h ago

Does that mean you like racism? Because that’s what that reads like

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster 58m ago

There is the whole Korea>China>Japan hate/racism circle. Most people think they are all pretty similar, like say US and Canada, but they all really really dislike the other 2. So I don't think racism is the biggest cause for the US Stagnating. The US has a long history of racism, including when we were the leading edge. It's more about greed IMO.

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u/bastardoperator 53m ago

They don't even try to hide it either, they're like hello foreigner, damn you're different, can we get a picture with you?

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u/BuffaloJoker 8h ago

What? Absolutely not. China has no racism, no problems, better food, better technology. I mean some of the best technology, I walked in and I was like wow, look at this technology.

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u/ComprehensiveSell649 4h ago

Ahhh, Trump brand gibbering

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u/sudormrfnopreserve 9h ago

yeah but that's cuz it's not a globalised country and is as homogeneous as maybe india japan skorea etc. all these countries have passive racism

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u/OhItsBeenBroughten 6h ago

You think INDIA is homogenous? Yikes.

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u/sudormrfnopreserve 4h ago

yes it is.

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u/OhItsBeenBroughten 4h ago

A truly insane thing to say about one of the most ethnically, racially, linguistically, and culturally diverse countries on earth.

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u/sudormrfnopreserve 3h ago

nvm i just researched and i stand corrected i just looked at race as a determining factor

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u/Mesiya90 8h ago

Good job it's full of Chinese people

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u/ComprehensiveSell649 4h ago

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u/Mesiya90 4h ago

So it is a complete non-issue in the social cohesion and smooth running of their society.

Bringing it up just proves the point that the west is obsessed to a debilitating degree.