Chinese Nationalism

I am really getting annoyed at people thinking that the Chinese government has been pumping up "nationalism." I mean, I'm sure they pump it up as much as the American government does, but patriotism is fueled as much by the people as the governments, and this is true for any country. I don't even know if there has really been a surge of patriotism in China or just a surge of anti-West sentiments so now Western countries are like, oh there's a surge of nationalism.

It's so ridiculous. Western people don't even consider why Chinese people might be patriotic. It can't possibly have anything to do with how much their lives have improved in the past 20 years. It can't possibly be because they are impressed with how far China has come and the relative stability they've enjoyed. It seems that Western news and Western people think, Chinese are more nationalistic because the government told them to be. What a pea-brained explanation. I was telling a friend about how Chinese people were pissed about America bombing the Chinese embassy in Kosovo, and how they took to the streets. And the American media thought it was staged by the government, and he was more inclined to believe that than to believe that Chinese people were actually pissed enough to go out and stage a protest. RIDICULOUS I'll have you know that Chinese people are very protest-happy, much more so than America with its so-called political freedoms and free speech. Chinese people in the mainland went from movement after movement after movement, and there is a lot of social infrastructure not like how in the US, everyone is sort of on their own except for maybe Church. And now with the internet, there is even more social infrastructure. There is also a lot of manpower, which always helps. In China, patriotism and protests/demonstrations are linked, but it's not linked in America. In America, patriotism is linked with baseball and military service, do you put your hand over your heart, do you wear your flag pin. People are so dense.