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[โ€“] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You grow up in those countries, you'd soon learn to keep quiet.

My family was all born in mainland China, we live in the US right now, my parents keeps telling me to stop criticizing the government, as in neither the governments of of PRC and USA. Because in their mind:
dissent = trouble
shut up = safe

Which I mean, to be fair, seeing how PRC allegedly has overseas operatives and also the US's current autocratization, they might actually have a point.

I don't agree with that idea, but I get where they're coming from. They lived through the Cutural revolution stuff. My dad was a kid during those times, my mom was born near the end of it, but she heard direct first hand accounts from my maternal grandparents. So... those fears gets passed on. My mom told me many times to not post anti-government views on the internet... even here in the US... ๐Ÿ‘€

[โ€“] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

dissent = trouble shut up = safe

That's true in the US, anyone who thinks they have free speech hasn't said anything that anyone cared about, and were asleep the entirety of 2020 and hasn't turned on the news now that Trump's ICE are so wildly incompetent they don't even bother to obfuscate what they're doing.

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

[โ€“] Mika@piefed.ca 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I know what you mean. My parents (both Ukrainian) were telling me to lower my profile and don't post anything political cause we don't know where are we heading. They did enjoy their freedom to criticize gov at home & with the family members though, but in a very characteristic Ukrainian trait - all the politicians bad, they all steal etc.

My wife's granny from Belarus, she switched to very quiet whisper every time she was talking about politics. Even in Ukraine, where people faced no consequences. Because walls have ears.

And re genetic memory, I know what you mean cause even people that didn't experience Holodomor had very different attitude towards food, having stashes & wasting food was basically unthinkable.