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Conservative socially does not have much to do with religion. Chinese will often claim they “aren’t as open as” westerners for some definition of open. Most of my Chinese gay colleagues in china were in the closet, there was just no way you could be open about that, even in an american company. Otherwise, the cultures are very different, which can’t be discounted. Oddly enough, many things in china would be considered too open for Americans, so it isn’t clear cut at all.

>>seanmc+(OP)
Right, making it doubly confusing to use a culturaly bound one dimensional adjective to describe differences between people of wholly different cultures. It’s not a meaningful comparison.

Edit: I suppose my confusion is incorrect...?

>>seanmc+(OP)
> Conservative socially does not have much to do with religion

It does in the US. Absolutely does.

>>lurr+63
It does in certain regions. In others, not so much.

>>lurr+63
Okay, so it does in the US, generally speaking, but doesn't have much to do with why Chinese immigrants tend to hold certain views that are considered conservative in America as the vast majority of recent ones are not at all religious in the first place.

>>lurr+63
This is not true. Would you consider James Damore conservative? His views certainly weren't religious.

The rise of "social justice" means that anyone who doesn't agree with those tactics is now conservative. I think you'll find many atheists in those ranks. In fact, their community was one of the first battle grounds in the current culture war.

>>lurr+63
It has a lot to do with religion but individually does not depend on it; plenty of religious people (including in the religous groups dominated by social conservatives) are not social conservatives, and plenty of social conservatives are not religious. That said, there are strong correlations...