ImSoBasic

On the other hand, you've also said that your father raised you in a food-insecure environment, you didn't have any friends, and were extremely isolated due in part to being home-schooled. You also give your father a lot of credit for letting you decide who you wanted to live with, but that's honestly not a decision an 8-year-old is really capable of making (though it does seem to have made you feel like you yourself are at least somewhat responsible for the circumstances in which you were raised). I think it's things like this that have people wondering whether your views of your mother are unfairly prejudiced.

Sounds about right: Australian travels the world to find Aussies to drink with in every city (if not every night).

If you won't be able to get back up, then it's probably best you don't try. Failure rates on new businesses are extremely high, and "entrepreneurship" correlates extremely highly with having a strong safety net to fall back on: they can afford to fail.

https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-for-risk-they-come-from-families-with-money/

OP doesn't say much about his background, but we know he attended an international school in Shanghai. This basically tells us that at least one of his parents is a professional/executive sent there on a generous expat package. He relied on his built-in network of similarly elite classmates to be his first customers. I don't mean to take away from what he has accomplished, but those are all substantial advantages that it sounds like you won't be able to leverage.

I imagine a Karen is actually typically a white man, except we tend not to see anything wrong with white men acting that way.

Is there really a misconception about this? I think it's very widely understood that Chinese are intensely protective of their country and its reputation (as are lots of other nationalities, and Americans in particular).

But what I think is rather different (especially from a New World perspective) is how widely Chinese are (and are expected to) identify with their ancestry, and not with where they live. I think that many Chinese-Americans, for example, identify with China more than Russian-Americans identify with Russia (and this is even more pronounced for ethnic Chinese in SE Asia and other countries). And for many in China, I have the impression they also think it normal — and even expected — for those foreign Chinese to identify with China and defend her interests. The fact that China basically doesn't accept any immigrants or naturalize any foreigners as citizens rather accentuates this viewpoint, as it makes it more difficult to viscerally understand how people can naturalize and become citizens of another country, and be loyal to that country.