Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Two things come to mind when Ciro Santilli thinks about his sinohpilia.

There is a strong "Ciro Santilli's knowledge hoarding" side to it. Ciro has decided that he has to know EVERYTHING about China. It's culture. It's people. It's art. And so once that has been decided, it becomes inevitable.

But of course, there is also the "which part of Ciro's inner being led to that hoarding decision" part of things. Mishima's quote often comes to mind:

Exoticism is undoubtedly part of it.

Maybe it has something to do with growing up observing 5th+ generation Japanese Brazilians immigrants, well, being Asians and crushing it academically. But also being quiet people, and sometimes misfits. I.e., nerds.

Maybe there is also something to do with the influence Japanese anime, highly popular during Ciro's childhood in Brazil. Ciro, unlike many of his friends, left that relatively early, as he got into the deeper pleasures of natural sciences and then more traditional Asian culture. But still.

And finally perhaps the correlation between sofware engineers and Asian fetish and the correlation between software engineers and Buddhism.

Related on github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much

Literally: West of the Mountain.

As of 2020 (TODO starting when) the Chinese government officially recognizes 55 minorities.

These minorities actually had different legal statuses, e.g. they were exempt from the One Child Policy.

Japanese Brazilians are either model children, or they're good for nothings. There is no intermediate.

For some reason Chinese people (and their sphere of influence such as Japan) are obsessed by numbered lists, e.g. stuff like Four Beauties, Four Treasures of the Study and so on!

The concept does exist in the West (e.g. The Seven Wonders of the World), but clearly the Sinosphere is much more obsesse by it!