MicroWave@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoChina’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’www.wsj.comexternal-linkmessage-square224fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down124file-text
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Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family
minus-squarecalypsopub@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down10·11 months agoI have a theory that part of this is due to the dying out of religion as a way to keep the masses in line.
minus-squareBartsbigbugbag@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-211 months agoChina is a communist country, they purposefully repressed religion for quite some time, though that has eased up a lot these days. If that was why, it would have happened decades ago when people stopped being religious.
I have a theory that part of this is due to the dying out of religion as a way to keep the masses in line.
China is a communist country, they purposefully repressed religion for quite some time, though that has eased up a lot these days. If that was why, it would have happened decades ago when people stopped being religious.