That not really being something that’s a “Chinese” characteristic, its more like government’s famines decades earlier causing the people to become desparate and hoard ever resource they could find, and also for children, the one child policy got the kids so used to being the center of attention (like my older brother being jealous of me becaus he expected to be the only child), but redditors are implying that this is a “Chinese” thing, instead of empathizing with the horrible situation that China was in after both a victim of foreign colonialism and invasions in the 19th and 20th century and also government fucking up redevelopement of the country, instead of going for the “hmm yea unfortunate situation for mainland Chinese, the environment they grew up in sucks, can’t blame them, I hope they eventually become better” which would be a valid, non-racist view, but nope redditors instead just went for the “Chinese really bad” angle instead, like impluing this is someone a thing deeply encoded in genetics/culture (which it isn’t).

I know I probably can’t analyze the comments in an unbiased way, but that’s what I feel like this is implying from tone of those comments. Perhaps I’ve just faced with too much racism in school and I’m just using pattern recognition by now. Because when I was in school, kids would say to me “Do Chinese people eat Cats and Dogs?” like not even in a way that recognize all the famines, but in the way that implies as if people are somehow “evil” and just somehow loves eating domesticated animals; yes I recognize there are some people do bad thing with animals, but that’s far from a majority, and definitely much, much less frequent in modern day where famines are no longer a thing (and thus would not need to consune domesticated animals for food), and I, right now, have a cat and that’s definitely not food to me, my cats is my friend. But my peers in school would love to paint is as if everyone in China is “eating Cats and Dogs”, which isn’t true. So I feel like some of the reddit comments describing Chinese people are essentially being used this way to invoke racist views in the readers

And also, 2020, covid, trump fucking said “China virus” with the full intent of it being used in a racist way. And then some redditors said the term “China virus” as used by trump was “not racist” so I kinda just lost faith in reddit and I feel like a lot of the users have subconcious racist views

So yea, I probably am not the most unbiased when it comes to assessing whether or nor a comment is racist, since I’ve experience so much racist things that my brain have gotten a bit pessemistic about thing. I hope that’s not the intent of these reddit comments, but its really giving me bad vibes tbh.