r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ActualInstance2195 • 3d ago

Video Fascinating growth made by China!

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u/KarelKat 3d ago

*China is less religious today because of the cultural revolution.

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u/Mysterious_Fun4403 3d ago

It’s not just religion. Corruption, caste based politics.

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u/nicannkay 3d ago

Oh the corruption is still in China make no mistake. They aren’t showing the poor who work like as slaves in factories.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 3d ago

It’s funny people will make a huge deal about workers in America not making a living wage but these same people buy tons of shit from countries that are basically built on slave labor.

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u/Fun_University_8380 3d ago

It's more like most people don't uncritically buy the state department propaganda that these countries are using slave labor

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u/Sure_Station9370 2d ago

Wait you don’t think China has sweatshops? What reality do you live in lmao.

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u/wacdonalds 2d ago

The sweatshops are Amazon warehouses

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u/exbiiuser02 2d ago

They live in ImagiNation

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u/TicketFew9183 2d ago

Most countries have sweatshops so it’s nothing crazy.

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u/IssaJuhn 2d ago

……. America was literally built on slave/low cost labor…. This is the pot calling the kettle black.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 2d ago

That was 160 years ago.

I’m talking about today.

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u/IssaJuhn 2d ago

Doesn’t matter if the pot is 160 years old and the kettle is brand new. Both are fucking black.

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u/Objective_Drama_1004 2d ago

Also being devastated by centuries of brutal colonialism

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u/ayymadd 3d ago

Weren't they already despising and rejecting religion way before (like from the late 40s when the Communists took over)?

Confucianism was brought to heel in a similar manner to the Orthodox Church in Soviet domains IIRC.

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u/KarelKat 3d ago

Fair. My comment wasn't nuanced and played on the CR. What I was trying to say is more that this isn't just some innate thing of one people being fundamentally less religious than another and that there is context for why that is. One society went through a massive change to become what we see and another could also.

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u/UrbanCyclerPT 1d ago

yes, it is a type of thing that takes some generations. India won't be able to get rid of religion with a snap. It will take time.

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u/Early_Body_8306 2d ago

Wow, rare smart opinion on reddit

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u/radioinactivity 3d ago

Sounds like the cultural revolution did something good then

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u/longiner 2d ago

Once you hit rock bottom, there's no other direction than up.

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u/Sorry_Sort6059 2d ago

The Cultural Revolution lasted only 10 years, so how could it make religion disappear? Objectively speaking, Chinese people originally didn't believe in religion much; they mainly believed in Confucianism, but Confucianism is not a religion, it's more like an ideology.

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u/D3ly0 2d ago

*Largest genocide in human history

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u/reginhard 2d ago

It really doesn't has anything to do with cultural revolution. If you look at HK Taiwan Macau and Chinese communities in South East Asia you'll know. Religion didn't really play a very important role in everyday life in the past.