This was an interesting perspective on privacy in different cultures. Why was it removed for “bigotry?”

For example, in China the crime rate is incredibly low.

I think a correction is in order: petty crime such as what you have described is indeed low, but organized crime is through the roof. Far higher than in countries considered ‘the west’. Scammers mainly. So much so they’ve had to expand to neighbouring countries in the south/southeast to expand their ‘market reach’.

I agree about the difference in China with how they feel about privacy and surveillance. I’ve long respected they’re completely different. They’re motivations and reasonings, their history. Its just really different. But I do disagree with using China as a reason we should accept it and approach it the same. Our Governments are fucking WILDLY different. Entirely different motivations. As such we have to defend ourselves differently.

The more time I live on this earth, the more I see so many aspects of it is that “different strokes for different folks” apply to. So much conflict has been started because people wanting to force some ideal/correct/only way of doing things on another.