China: Self-Victimization Ideology · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

The former Singapore president Lee Kuan Yew recently suggested that when China's middle class grows in size, the educated people would stop perceiving themselves as victims of the West. Xueyong pointed out that in the recent Olympic torch relay protest, the overseas Chinese students continued the East vs. West dichotomy [zh]. The self-victimization thinking is more ideological than developmental.