• liquidparasyte@pawb.social
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      4 months ago

      Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?

      If it’s not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global “the Chinese” or doing silly shit like “China scientists” everyone’s grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.

    • DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      Seriously, for me a “China scientist” is someone doing research on China, like a space scientist would do research on astronomy and similar. But I’m not a native English speaker, so, idk