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The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there’s just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.
The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.
That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn’t mean there aren’t a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.
The big one with China is that culturally there’s no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you’re dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.
This isn’t a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they’re from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.
Worked for millenia until the rise of capitalism
No it didn’t, we’ve had states for literally six to eight thousand years or more and capitalism for about three hundred years.
States have existed essentially since the moment the population of specific area became large enough to become a city.
Because again, as I said earlier, you can’t have completely stateless groups larger than hundreds of people, if just doesn’t work.
It wouldn’t work, there wouldn’t be nearly enough contribution to cover a military with any useful amount of force. There’s zero chance you can get tens of millions of people to donate enough money voluntarily to support such an endeavor.
Militaries are extremely expensive, especially in the modern world. In Canada for example we have about 100,000 citizens per aircraft in the airforce, and about half a million citizens per boat in the Navy.
It wouldn’t work.
In order to have a military, you’d have to have at least one or more dedicated people, those people would need to be supported with resources and given that it’s a stateless society there’s zero chance that enough people would voluntarily choose to help them to allow them to operate effectively outside of a wartime event without requiring some sort of payment from everyone and then you’re back to having a state.
If you want to use the microwave for this, pop in a plate with some water, then heat it up for 1-2 minutes, take it out with something that doesn’t absorb water (or the hot water will wick through the material to your hand and burn you) dump the water in the sink and quickly wipe with a dish towel to dry before using.
Other methods include warming it in an oven set very low, or heating it in hot water from a sink.
In a restaurant, they may just grab a plate that has just come out of the dishwasher since industrial dishwashers are really fucking hot.
I mean, Facebook already requires ID in many cases. https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185/
You’re required to prove your age in a bunch of real life scenarios too, like buying alcohol, tobacco, or a firearm.
It is a privacy issue, but the question is on the balance is the privacy concern worse than the harms being done by youth on social media?
Given that there are literally hundreds of university studies showing how bad this shit is for kids, and leaked internal documents from the social media companies themselves, I think it’s the better choice at the moment.