> Have you talked to any young people in the West lately? Do you even know WTF is going on in your own countries?
Okay, I'm not super skilled on my fallacies, but this seems like a tu quoque, no? Western youth disillusionment doesn't preclude Chinese youth disillusionment, unless you see it as a zero sum competition.
I personally know people (20s to mid 30s) who are simply unhappy that they did everything they were told and couldn't get jobs in their field, and can't afford a house (so they rent one and which pays for somebody else's mortgage).
> Young people in the West who are unhappy are mostly mentally ill
Dude. Young people in the west have PLENTY to be very unhappy about, without being mentally ill. The completely fucked housing market for example (here in Western Europe at least), or the complete lack of drastic actions to reduce climate change.
Distinction without a difference. Just because we give our unhappy youth's misery a name and send them home with a bottle of pills doesn't mean they're not unhappy.
dustincoates|2 years ago
Okay, I'm not super skilled on my fallacies, but this seems like a tu quoque, no? Western youth disillusionment doesn't preclude Chinese youth disillusionment, unless you see it as a zero sum competition.
slibhb|2 years ago
data-ottawa|2 years ago
I personally know people (20s to mid 30s) who are simply unhappy that they did everything they were told and couldn't get jobs in their field, and can't afford a house (so they rent one and which pays for somebody else's mortgage).
Avalaxy|2 years ago
Dude. Young people in the west have PLENTY to be very unhappy about, without being mentally ill. The completely fucked housing market for example (here in Western Europe at least), or the complete lack of drastic actions to reduce climate change.
DrFlipper|2 years ago