I mean like:

  • Chinese (Edit: Mandarin Chinese) will become the lingua franca of the world
  • The Internation Aviation Language will (probably) become Chinese (replacing Aviation English)
  • Lunar New year becomes a popular holiday (like Chrismas is currently popular worldwide)
  • The Internet will use mostly Chinese Chracter
  • And instead of 26 Latin based characters, you’ll have to learn thousands of characters, imagine that 😅 (or just use a translator tool 🤷‍♂️)
  • There would be a China version of Hollywood, taking over the original Hollywood
  • Fengshui becomes a thing that the world starts to care about
  • UN Headquarters now located in Shanghai (I’m guessing this is the most “international” city in China, right?)
  • Boeing is dead, some Chinese airplane manufacturer now dominates, competing with Airbus.
  • Baidu is default search engine (now with less censorship due to democrarization)
  • Harmony OS (Huawei’s Android fork) become the new “Apple”, iPhone is now insignificant, ranking below Motorola in terms of market share.
  • Either Windows get brought by some Chinese Bussiness person, or there China makes a Linux distribution that starts off as Open Source with some proprietary components (like how Android is), then eventually becoming Closed Source once they overtake Windows. Lets call it PandaOS (I’m not creative with names 'mmkay)
  • etc…

Sounds like an interesting world 🤔

What do you think?

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    7·
    5 hours ago

    I think the main thing which I would have problems with would be the collectivism and confucionism which I really can’t stand. I don’t think it’s necessary to replace English, it’s not American anyway. The rest sounds ok to me, as long as they don’t kill my normal Linux.

      • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
        63·
        5 hours ago

        I can’t stand that everyone is forced by sociaty to be the same.

        I’m not like you, I have my own thinking, my own style, by own taste in music, my own taste in food, etc. etc.

        I really like diversity. Let’s look at the music from mainly collectivist countries like China or Korea. There is K-pop and uhm I guess that’s all I know (and I live in Korea). Then let’s compare it to the a individualistic country I lived before like Sweden:

        • Electronic Body Music
        • Metal (with all it’s subgenres)
        • Rock
        • Pop
        • Electronic Dance Music

        And each of them have their own subculture. Yeah you get the point.

      • fxomt@lemm.ee
        4·
        4 hours ago

        I get what you’re saying here, But there are like 3-5 democratic countries in Asia, and even they didn’t fair the best with covid. I think it’s the US that was exceptionally bad, not the countries that handled it greatly.

        As for the rest i’d rather live in a flawed liberal democracy than an efficient autocratic dictatorship.