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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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I get that 'donghua' is animated motion picture, and 'manhua' is picture books

Wikipedia says 'danmei' is gay-themed novels, but other people seem to say it for any sort of Chinese web novel? Confused.

What's a cultivation genre good web novel to get started?

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[โ€“] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation was fun.

[โ€“] itsraining@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been enjoying reading Cultivation Chat Group. It is a cultivation novel but it also kind of mocks the genre in a friendly way.

Because reading from a website may not be that comfortable you can consider an app such as QuickNovel (available on F-Droid) or similar to download and read the chapters offline and save progress locally.

[โ€“] griefstricken@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yooo fdroid app you are speaking my language. Also they have a wuxia themed chinese flashcarding app on there

[โ€“] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Martial World is a long webnovel that I actually think encapsulates a lot of features of the cultivation genre, though it does have its share of brainworms and anime bullshit, like the main character having multiple wives and a few problematic scenes involving them. It does spill a lot of digital ink on the progression of the main character through cultivation realms, which is the shit I live for. It's the long-running shounen version of the genre, imo (while I have some titles under my belt, I don't know too awful many).

I haven't read Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation as mentioned, but I did watch the donghua and found it quite good, though I don't remember anything about it's progression system. A great option for a more drama-oriented entry. BL (I also only know danmei as BL).

I remember really liking The Dragon, which is GL, though it may also be more a fun and dramatic romance set in a cultivation setting than a cultivation novel.

[โ€“] DragonSlayer999@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Girl's Love so lesbian. Yuri, baihe, etc. BL is Boy's Love. Yaoi, Danmei.