[Chaebixi]

> What a nightmarish reality to live in. You can’t trust your own parents, friends, neighbors, etc.

I think you missed my point. That's inaccurate and not what I intended to communicate.

My point was that Chinese can complain about their country among themselves, but there are social taboos against doing the same thing among foreigners. The implication is that when a foreigner asks a Chinese person what they really think about their country, they'll probably get a whitewashed version rather than their true feelings.