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If China becomes democratic, would you be okay with China replacing the US as a global superpower? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 😅 (or just use a translator tool 🤷‍♂️)
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 🤔

What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

When you say “Chinese” becomes lingua franca, do you mean Mandarin? Cantonese? Yue? Hakka? Other? If Mandarin, do you mean Jilu? Jiaolio? Other?

Mandarin Chinese. (I had this in mind when I was typing it, but then forgot to type it 😅)

Lots of Chinese people aren’t into fengshui. That’s kind of a bizarre stereotype for you to pick out of everything mentioned.

Idk, my parents are very into it, so I just assumed its a standard thing. The friends that my mom talk to seems to discuss superstitions a lot. My parents wouldn't buy a house with the number 4 on the street address.

(For Context: My family and I were born in PRC)

I meant more like "Chinese Superstition" rather than just "fengshui", but the "fengshui" term was more widespread so I just used that instead.

What I actually hope is the idea of a single global superpower dies completely. It’s not even the current reality for the US; it’s just propaganda.

Yea I don't like superpowers either, but this is more like a "If you had to pick" type of question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Maybe it's a generational thing, or geographic thing?

My wife was born in a village near Xi'an, and lived there for ~22 years

She isn't into fengshui, and doesn't adhere to any major superstitions (I guess other than you have to keep your belly button warm 😂)