From an epistemological point of view, this thing should distinguish the situation, look at the age, see where it comes from, generally speaking, a fixed image is formed before the age of 30, and it is difficult to change after that, and foreigners from poor countries will be relatively easier to change.
Moreover, most Chinese their views on China are incomplete and incorrect.
It is difficult to understand a country, a country as big as China, it is difficult to understand across provinces, you put the facts in his face, pull it to see it with his own eyes may not be able to change, let alone transnational?
I have met many people who have formed a fixed image of Tibet, come to Tibet and see the facts with their own eyes, the reality is all around him, and they can still turn a blind eye. After going back, you can actually reinforce the inherent image of the error, reality? What is reality?
I told him that altitude sickness was just a normal physiological reaction, a process in which the human body adapts to the plateau environment, and people are beaten to death without believing it, and even wrote a "suicide note", in the circle of friends. I came to Lhasa without incident, I lay down all afternoon, I jumped alive at night, and the next day I drove over the 5,300-meter mountain pass without accident. After this man returned from Tibet, he bragged in the circle of friends the next day, saying how he died nine times, how Gao Yi made his life hang by a thread, and how he escaped death.
Please, you were paralyzed in the co-pilot for three days and slept, okay?
It can be seen that "reality" can be changed according to needs, and what is needed, reality must look like.
Foreigners also have this.
I have seen a pair of old men and women, why did they come to Tibet? People came to find the "divine doctor".
The old lady seems to have some terrible disease, in short, it is not curable, so she wants to come to the mysterious "Shangri-La" to find hope. I know that now Shangri-La is the capital of Diqing Prefecture, no need to give me "popular science", you have this inherent impression, I have been mixing and mixing in Tibetan areas for more than ten years, can I not know Shangri-La? When the old couple came, the capital of Diqing Prefecture was still called Zhongdian, and later it was called Shangri-La, and the authentic Shangri-La was still in Tibet.
Just ask me where the best hospital in Tibet is.
Where, the General Hospital of the Military District?
When I arrived at the gate of the General Hospital of the Military Region, I was told that this was not the best hospital in Tibet. I thought to myself, are you messing around in Tibet or am I messing around in Tibet? The general hospital is not the best, where is that?
The old man said that it was not modern medicine, it was that kind.
I see, then hide the hospital?
The old man looked at the gate, entered happily, and after a while came out angrily, I asked what this is?
The old man was angry, said that this is not either, and opened a CT for his wife! He didn't want this, and this kind of cure has been tried countless times in the United States.
I understood at once, yes! People in the United States can't be cured, why would they come to your Tibet to treat their diseases? What people want is not this, people want "divine doctors".
I asked him, where did you know that there was a healer here?
He said, "The Tibetan Book of Life and Death."
That's not easy...
To put it bluntly, the old man and the old lady just want a sustenance to face death calmly, and what he wants is not "reality", but some kind of excuse to escape death, some kind of support in the face of inevitable death, some kind of comfort.
So I found them an old monk.
Let it be...
Relatively young, from poor countries, but with a higher level of education, it is easy to form a correct overall perception.
There is an international student from Nepal who understands very thoroughly, and the three views are still changing drastically, and he is willing to accept new concepts. Although his family is a landowner, he has the determination and ideal to change Nepal, and he has unrealistic illusions about China's revolution and reform and opening up, which is too idealistic.
Everyone knows that the Nepalese revolution is in many places to learn from China's experience, and there are also rigid applications, this young man is not deeply involved in the world, of course, he has a very idealized idea to observe and understand China. His father was an old landowner, and his ideals for revolution came from his uncle. His uncle is also a two-knife man, an old guerrilla member of the CPN(M) who is now mainly engaged in women's liberation work, and does not understand much theoretical things. His uncle knew me and asked me to take care of him. I can imagine how much this idealized young man will be affected, and I even worry that he will become disgusted and cynical from now on.
When he came, the Zhangmu port was still open, and he came in and rushed above 318 for more than a day, and his eyes were already the light that only came when he entered the holy land, and when he arrived in Lhasa, he almost turned around on the spot and returned to China to lead the revolution.
This kind of immediately go back and read the sutra to you crookedly.
I said that you are only the first stop, you don't stop for a second, you don't look at these things in Lhasa, anyway, you ran for so long on the road, the hotel went to sleep, tomorrow morning catch the earliest flight directly to the north to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Lhasa don't look at it.
He asked why.
I said that China is not what you think, the Chinese revolution is not what you think, reform and opening up is not, and Lhasa is not. If you can accept it, you will come more violently, you start from the highest level in China, and take a look before school starts, so that it is more comprehensive, and all kinds of phenomena are seen more. Then go to school to pass the language barrier, study for a few years, and then use the holidays to run around.
Three years later, the young man is already a China expert, and every province in China has been to at least once, and he has understood both the ideal side and the realistic side, has seen both the developed side of the eastern coast and the backwardness of the western interior, knows both the socialist side and the reality of the market economy, the relationship with the world, the relationship with Nepal, and the relationship with the past, present, and future, not to mention that he knows everything about it, at least he is more proficient than the vast majority of Chinese.
Chinese learned well, the problem of reading and writing is not big, and it is a bit difficult to speak, and it is also mixed with various domestic forums and APP.
I asked him, what do you think of the "revolutionary young generals" on the Chinese Internet who only shout slogans?
He politely but awkwardly squeezed a sneer out of between his teeth.
I knew he was pretty much there.
Tibet is actually the last stop of his entire journey to China, and as the most remote and backward province with vast sparsely populated areas, Tibet is actually the final "completion" of his entire three views. He chartered a car, carpooled, hitchhiked, and followed a group by himself, and ran Tibet all over Tibet, understanding ethnic and religious policies, understanding the development of remote areas, and understanding the attitude of local people towards development and traditional contradictions, which can be regarded as a complete complement to China's comprehensive understanding.
To put it bluntly, ideals and reality seem to have an insurmountable gap, but they are actually closely linked.
If you can't shine into the ideal of reality, it's all a fart.
The effort required for an ideal to translate into reality is unimaginable.
This is the preciousness of human beings.
Young people tend to be more ambitious, but they also lack the tempering of reality, so they are more willing to try to understand the world, and then be hammered in the process of understanding.
Either hammer to waste.
Or it will be made into steel.
Wasted people have their own kinds, there are many ways to escape reality, you want to escape reality, how can you make up a reason for it. For example, I have seen the performance of a certain big V in Zhihu, in short, it means one thing: you just get everything done for me, and then I shout slogans. This is not necessarily a "questioner", but a "slogan expert", especially good at making up all kinds of popular slogans, thinking that if you shout slogans, things will be fine by themselves. There are also those who have been hammered by reality abroad, and it is difficult to talk about "improvement" when traveling to China, what he needs is not to change, but to be at ease.
Most of the people who have been refined into steel are like a bird: you just come, I am afraid that I will lose.