This text is extremely disturbing to say the least.
China’s Youth Are Trapped in the Cult of Nationalism
I know that some of us have already made apt comparisons between China and Imperial Japan in the way they build up their power and use whatever propaganda to say that xyz group is the enemy and so forth. However, this one is both deeper and much uglier when I read this.
Think for a second here. It shares similarities with the way the Nazis rose by first getting to power, then bending the rules to maintain their power, then passing laws/bills that pushes minorities into concentration camps like it happened for Jews, Gypsies, and other political opponents. Also we see the use of social media like the US alt-right except that it it the mainstream discourse rather than fringes. Last but not least, the crap about China being the nation where the Han ethnic group is the dominant one is fed to schoolchildren from an early age.
Han supremacy is a term that really struck because it summed up a lot, and I think this is something that must be talked more in the future. When they say that any criticism of China is an attack on the master (Han) race, I feel vibes about Netanhyahu's Israel shouting that criticism of their country and policies is antisemitism against "all Jewish people". But that is how similar the spinning is in the talk on the world stage.
In short, the social context with Chinese people is one major clusterfuck that blends some of the worst things we have seen in history since the 20th century, and it could get far worse until things get any better.