When he announced his running prior to 2016, I thought it was a joke.
The apprentice guy? I was born in 92 and really just hardly aware of him except for the apprentice, of which I only watched a few of the celebrity apprentice episodes because it had celebrities on that I liked such as Gilbert Gottfried and Penn Jillette.
So I didn't really care for Trump for two reasons.
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I associated him with reality TV and I did and still do despise reality TV. I saw it and still see it as one of those things that decayed the American culture.
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When he was the subject of a comedy central roast around the time he announced he was running, he didn't seem like he could take a joke.
I've since seen that Trump's not the type of guy who does big hearty showy laughs. If he's amused by something he'll just sort of smile. But at the time, I didn't think he had a sense of humor about himself, and I've always been someone who's wary of people who can't take jokes about themselves.
But what changed for me officially was when I saw a video of his, one of his campaign videos addressing the problem of political correctness in the culture and stifling free speech.
That alone was enough to ensure I was behind him 100%. I never saw any other "conservative" politician boldly address this issue or even address it at all really.
Mostly it was just us on the internet fighting the culture war who bothered to address and fight political correctness. Where was John McCain's take down of PC culture? Where was Mitt Romney's takedown of PC culture? But here, the guy who I thought was just doing this for attention as a reality TV guy, is the only one to flat-out say, political correctness is a problem and needs to be addressed.
So that video made me a Trump supporter. Then seeing how the mainstream media treated the man made me see things even clearer.
Case in point. The Chinese in Malaysia have a very strong Chinese identity because the Malaysian muslims ostrosized them but the malaysian muslims in Malaysia never tried to genocide them.
The Chinese in Indonesia are more assimulated because the muslim Indonesians there tried to genocide the Chinese
The Chinese in Thailand are more assimulated because they didnt get ostrosized at all and pagans can more easily assimulate with pagans.
The reason why jews lasted so long is because Christians ostrosized them without genociding them. which made them more strongly huddle together without disappearing.
In China they were less ostrosized and it was easier for jews to assimulate with pagans than it was for them to assimulate with Christians hence why the Keifang jews in China almost disappeared after a few hundred years before the jews from Europe contacted them and tried to revive them.
it wasn't because of "God's divine intervention"
Your example uses some Chinese groups in other places. China has been an empire for thousands of years and is the single most populated nation on earth.
Any foreign Chinese could have contemporary sources to turn to keep a Chinese identity.
Israel was not a nation for nearly 2000 years and yet the Jews remained.
And Israel, this tiny little nation being the central place of the end times…..these two factors make comparing some Chinese expats with Jews like comparing a puddle to the Atlantic Ocean.