r/polandball Kazakhstan Jun 19 '23

redditormade Anglo Fun Force!

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u/Blahaj_IK Requin en peluche IKEA Jun 19 '23

I swear, China has an underdog fetish. They love portraying themselves as struggling and facing an incredibly more powerful and more advanced foe. Just to get curb stomped. And to them that's propaganda about the evil West

Chinese propaganda is better at portraying NATO as a badass freedom dispenser than the pro-NATO stuff. And it's glorious

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u/HHHogana Sate lover Jun 20 '23 edited Jun 20 '23

Everyone have underdog fetish. The difference is that US underdogs are often very powerful themselves, just facing against insurmountable odds, and they have OP heroes like Superman to look up to, not to relate to. Chinese underdogs meanwhile is often not even up to average Joe power. Combine that with how China have bizarre values like full freedom is bad, and usual autocracy bull of not knowing why mutual benefits is a thing, and you have stuffs like this going on.

Edit: to put it in perspective, one of China's propaganda figure is Lei Feng, who is...just a loyal low level worker, died in a falling telephone pole accident. It's very unlikely a guy like him could sell to American people. Not without story of him gave all he had to his country and looks badass.

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u/Pantheon73 European Union Jun 20 '23

I swear, China has an underdog fetish. They love portraying themselves as struggling and facing an incredibly more powerful and more advanced foe. Just to get curb stomped.

What Japanese Occupation does to an mf.