this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
23 points (63.5% liked)

Ask Lemmy

27584 readers
1492 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected] or [email protected]


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I mean like:

  • Chinese (Edit: Mandarin Chinese) will become the lingua franca of the world
  • The Internation Aviation Language will (probably) become Chinese (replacing Aviation English)
  • Lunar New year becomes a popular holiday (like Chrismas is currently popular worldwide)
  • The Internet will use mostly Chinese Chracter
  • And instead of 26 Latin based characters, you'll have to learn thousands of characters, imagine that πŸ˜… (or just use a translator tool πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ)
  • There would be a China version of Hollywood, taking over the original Hollywood
  • Fengshui becomes a thing that the world starts to care about
  • UN Headquarters now located in Shanghai (I'm guessing this is the most "international" city in China, right?)
  • Boeing is dead, some Chinese airplane manufacturer now dominates, competing with Airbus.
  • Baidu is default search engine (now with less censorship due to democrarization)
  • Harmony OS (Huawei's Android fork) become the new "Apple", iPhone is now insignificant, ranking below Motorola in terms of market share.
  • Either Windows get brought by some Chinese Bussiness person, or there China makes a Linux distribution that starts off as Open Source with some proprietary components (like how Android is), then eventually becoming Closed Source once they overtake Windows. Lets call it PandaOS (I'm not creative with names 'mmkay)
  • etc...

Sounds like an interesting world πŸ€”

What do you think?

(page 2) 30 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The only issue I see with your plan is keeping the Chinese writing system. Alphabets are superior, even if you write Chinese with them.

Otherwise as long as my ideas about how the world should function get put into practice, I don't care who does it. By chance of history US was the one who brought quite a few good ideas into the world, mostly in the second half of the 20th century. But there's nothing fundamentally American about having good ideas.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

it'll take a huge and lucky shift to have this happen, but still interesting on your choices of pop culture changes.

anyways, i believe a more short term thing is each region will have economic areas of influence and may or may not have bits and pieces of what you described here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think the main thing which I would have problems with would be the collectivism and confucionism which I really can't stand. I don't think it's necessary to replace English, it's not American anyway. The rest sounds ok to me, as long as they don't kill my normal Linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

collectivism

I mean, Covid would probably be handled better. Look at the democratic Asian countries, they did much better than the US.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I get what you're saying here, But there are like 3-5 democratic countries in Asia, and even they didn't fair the best with covid. I think it's the US that was exceptionally bad, not the countries that handled it greatly.

As for the rest i'd rather live in a flawed liberal democracy than an efficient autocratic dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Not worth it in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What do you dislike about collectivism?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I can't stand that everyone is forced by sociaty to be the same.

I'm not like you, I have my own thinking, my own style, by own taste in music, my own taste in food, etc. etc.

I really like diversity. Let's look at the music from mainly collectivist countries like China or Korea. There is K-pop and uhm I guess that's all I know (and I live in Korea). Then let's compare it to the a individualistic country I lived before like Sweden:

  • Electronic Body Music
  • Metal (with all it's subgenres)
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Electronic Dance Music

And each of them have their own subculture. Yeah you get the point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Wait, you think collectivism is when everyone is forced to listen to the same music? And eat the same things? And dress the same way?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Those seem to be some of the long term results of the parts of conformism like conformity, group priority and social harmony.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

Just a "Lol" no more explanation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

I mean having to learn Chinese would be pain in the ass but probably good for me and my country's main character syndrome is annoying as hell so sure

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Considering they use Uyghur slave labour for Xinjiang cotton, the answer is a no from me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Man cotton just attracts slaves across every part of the globe. Good thing america diddnt have slaves picking cotton at any point in history /s

But seriously ukraine used slave child labour. Cotton for some reason requires slaves I have no idea why.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

That depends on how they act. China right now is on a path where I'd oppose them replacing the US. However the EU has the ability to replace the US as the global superpower - they don't because despite some significant differences overall the US and EU get along well and so they don't see any point. By cooperating the EU gains the things they want from being a global superpower without the disadvantages. Part of that cooperation is the EU is in NATO (mostly?) and so they are paying some of the military costs of the US being a global super power.

The US isn't perfect by any means, but we have done much better in many ways vs previous global superpowers. Right now I'd predict China would be worse so I oppose it. However who knows how things will change in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be okay with any country being global super power except maybe Albania.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

dont forget kuwait 😑

[–] [email protected] -4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They’ve had a bunch of mass attacks by knife and vehicles. Guess what the CCP does?

Improve quality of life? No. Make chef knives harder to obtain? Yes Profile childless men and monitor them? Yes

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, Chinese is only slightly harder to learn than English

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

China will never be democratic. English is there because it's easy. There is no default search engine (but there would be one if "democratic" China controlled everything...), same for your Linux crap, who would install this without being forced when there are already a thousand better alternatives.

Sounds boring, you described what would happen if a dictatorship ruled the world (and no whataboutism with the USA, I'm also immune to what they are doing).

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: β€Ή prev next β€Ί