Ancestors

Written by Chu 朱 on 2025-02-01 at 01:17

Hey Chinese Americans,

You know all those stories your grandparents told you about during the cultural revolution? Like how your neighbour's uncle got arrested for listening to the radio and and so and so snitched on this person or that person?

If you're lucky enough to have grandparents/aunts uncles old enough to remember any of this, ask them about life then. Ask them how they survived. Ask them what kinds of things they did.

All those lessons are about to become very useful. I heard my grandma tell the same stories and got bored of them. I sure wish I listened when I had the chance and took the lessons in.

There are fewer and fewer who remember those days but there are still some. Ask for their stories. You won't regret asking.

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Toot

Written by Infoseepage on 2025-02-01 at 06:58

@chu One thing I see coming up a lot is this idea is that you can just keep your head down and that this awful time will somehow pass and then there will be some magical return to normalcy. People are taking their inspiration from the past.

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Descendants

Written by Infoseepage on 2025-02-01 at 06:59

@chu The past offers many useful lessons, but understand that this is a different time, when many people's political inclinations are strongly marked in many databases, in which those in power have both meta data and perhaps META data on everyone. Understand, they know where everyone lives and who they talk to and what they say when they did. People have been bugging themselves for decades. Hiding is not an option.

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