Do not disagree with you, re: art/high culture
to date, but they're making inroads there too e.g. sculpture, modern art, performing art: elite classical music, etc
You'll see this kind of thing change as China seeks to move its state-capitalist model away from heavily export centric primary/secondary production towards a more balanced/wholistic modern one that encourages, and capitalises on, growth in domestic demand e.g. encouraging the growth of a middle class and related diversification of industries, including tertiary sector activity in arts and entertainment; this is not least because the leadership would like to see an Eastern/Chinese/socialist style emerge,
to rival the lures of Western offerings and mitigate against so many of its brightest/most creative minds from venturing elsewhereMilitarily, directly, one would hope not but China has fought the West/US in proxy wars (Korean/Vietnam Wars), and both committed human rights violations, and violations of sovereignty, within its immediate region and extended its influences outside its immediate region such that opportunities for 'entanglement' are
increased. It has also vastly expanded military expenditure and the 'tiger' analogy is apt in terms of the grumpy/easily riled nature of its military leadership, who most certainly have ‘teeth’
You only have to see how they conducted themselves in the China seas e.g. the Johnson South Reef Skirmish etc, to see how territory/resource hungry they are and the violent lengths they are prepared to go to in order to satisfy this. It also has a political leadership that are very wary/intolerant of internal dissent (Tiananmen Square) and ever keen to send a strong message to TROTW not to medal in their internal affairs e.g. if they have to put down any hint of internal uprising (thank God the Hong Kong protests were handled relatively lightly, last year)
In a few generations time white people will be in the minority in this country and folks will mostly be mixed race methinks so I can see it disappearing here (eventually – related unspoken/subconscious 'norms' will take a while to shake, even in the psyche of non-whites), if not necessarily in other primarily ‘white’ nationsI would rather a well educated, capable, black woman, who happens to be affluent/privately educated, represented me in parliament than a less well educated and capable white man, who happens to be from a more disadvantaged background. If gender/race genuinely
doesn't matter, and
we're all equal, then why do people whine about this stuff and encourage positive discrimination?
Of course you have a point in the things that you say but we remain privileged, within our society, if not always particularly well served by our political representatives, the authorities, and 'justice', in some (narrow) senses
Two wrongs, 'n' all that
Multiculturalism was encouraged/allowed in a myopic/negligent attempt to make up for policy/market failures, and perhaps also out of some misplaced sense of ex-colonial/post-war affinity/guilt and a rosy (ideologue) view of melting pot humanitarianism, wonder and cohesion
All good points
I'm not sure I follow, how does our identity limit our perspective? Surely it does the
opposite as our identity is one of accountability, guilt and related introspection concerning that larger social reality. We don't generally live in a bubble, unless you are talking about the Chelsea/home county elites