Originally published via PJ Media:
If you've ever encountered the hordes of international Chinese tourists (they've overtaken Bangkok in recent years thanks to explosive middle-class growth in the billion-plus population), you will have noted their horrendous personal habits and general lack of civility.
They spit. They grunt. They slurp. They cut in line (in the rare event that there actually is a discernible line at a grocery store checkout or ticket line). They smoke in non-smoking areas, including on the toilet. They also have a strange habit of foisting themselves on the toilet rim with their feet and squatting to defecate, which makes a mess.
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Walked into a Chiang Mai mall bathroom once. There was a Chinese tourist squating over the sink, standing on top of the counter, taking a shit while in the process of lighting a cigarette. In a spot with nice Japanese toilets he could have used. It's so hard not to hate them.
This was a vindicating read. For so long, I was simply shouted down as being mindlessly bigoted because of how deeply ugly I found this culture.
It is worth pointing out, though, if we're pining for China's Good Old Days, that the Cultural Revolution was hardly innovative. Chinese history is basically thousand-year periods of brutal repression and mass extermination of civilians by a highly bureaucratic and deeply corrupt central government valuing grotesque displays of materialism and displays of brutality.
No Asian nation comes close to paralleling China's historical record of public misery and terror nor the longevity of its success in doing so.
The Cultural Revolution was simply a modernization of "tyranny with Chinese characteristics."