Watch the video below and then read this blog after.

I know about this too. Not because someone from here told me. We never talk about politics here. It's based on my research, observation and experience in this country as well, but this lady said it so much better. When I came to the US, I could tell no one was happy that I am doing well and ask how I am, considering I have got Long Covid, even from my own family. Instead, I was confronted with these arguments, but I was able to answer well, and I believe I had won most arguments. Ignorance might be bliss but it is also just blatant stupidity that does not get its sources from different points of view. In the end, when they don't get to win an argument, they resort to a very racist or self-righteous religious or who is better remark. And that, my friend, is what the real root of the hate is. Nothing to do really with politics but racism, envy and religious self-righteousness, I am sorry to say it since I was born a Christian, of Christianity.

The truth of the matter is when I first decided to move to China, someone close to me was so against it. She was saying all these negative things not just about its government but its people, but of course, I am an independent thinker. I have to see it for myself, and a lot of things she said. Of course, some people or majority of people still believe their own truths as long as it serves their own point of view, their own sensibility. You can never win an argument against them. You can show them a red apple, but they will argue that it is pink when it's obviously red. Why? Because their mind is already deep rooted on their mind that it is red. Maybe that's how they grew up to believe.

I am not into politics nor about how some types of people behave or go about their lives, their religions or cultures, but when I went to the US, I was put in that situation in which I had to deal with it.

The way I see it. Live your life. Try to become better than you were the day before. Care about what you have some control of and not about something you have no control of. Have empathy and respectful towards other people, even those who don't share the same faith as you do, the same values as you do.