Again I'm reminded of the tweet where a Chinese reporter compared a terror attack in China to someone shooting up a subway train in Dallas. All the usual smuglords came out in force to tell the reporter that "Dallas doesn't have a subway, you CEE CEE PEE shill
" not realizing what an absolute self own that is.LMAO
Dallas does have light rail and a bus system (both managed by Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
tbf the reason you've never heard of it is for the same reason you were taught next to nothing about geography, history, and other cultures. If you don't know anything about anything then it's so easy to convince you that we're the good guys and all the wars are just and necessary
You're right that Americans are under-educated in those areas. However, China has something like a hundred "big cities" (let's say roughly Philadelphia-sized). Only a real geography buff would be able to identify all of them! If Americans knew just ten of them, that would be great.
If you don't know most of the different provinces of China and India, then you don't know anything about the world
I'm kind of a geography buff and i still can't even name ten. Same for India. And i'm not American but our education also severely neglected to teach us basically anything about the world outside of Europe and the US. The most we learned about the rest of the world was countries and their capitals. And history was even worse. It went Ancient Egypt > Greeks > Romans > Charlemagne > Holy Roman Empire > French revolution > Napoleon > Bismarck/German unification > World War > Weimar Germany > World War again > German reunification.
There are these videos in yt of people just randomly driving in various cities or countryside and chongqing is jaw dropping.
There are also videos of people randomly driving across rural America and the conditions people live under are eye-opening. Crumbling roads, crumbling houses, crumbling businesses, and everything's miles away with a sole Dollar General as the town's grocer.
But, you see, it has oppression particles in the air. Checkmate, tankie.
Consider that American cities aren't places for people to live. Their primary purpose is to make real estate companies money. American roads don't exist to be used, they're so car dealership owners exert undue political influence.
Chinese cities are built for people to live in
I recommend visiting one of the major cities. Doesn't have to be Shanghai or Beijing as it gets a bit bougie. Chengdu also has some really awesome city planning and high concept architecture!
not to mention chengdu is THE gay capital of china from what i've read online
You
don'twant to know what goes on in those skyscrapers!
u have to plan a trip for each region at this point 😂
as it gets a bit bougie
That's rather unfortunate
Case in point: Guiyang Night Walk, The Capital Of The Poorest Province In China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QsZVk8Am_E
Poorest Chad Chinese City vs Wealthy Virgin Amerikkkan Shithole
Jfc that is poorest province?!
TBF, it is the capital of the province, the most well developed part of it. Part of the problem with unequal development in China has been that the cities have been heavily developed like this, while the countryside has lagged behind. Thankfully, that seems to be changing now and the CPC's current goal seems to be to reduce unequal development as much as possible, so we might start to see small towns looking this well developed in about 10-20 years.
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That bookstore at the beginning got me almost to tears ngl, not only it's the best damn looking bookstore i ever seen but i bet it isn't filled to the brim with anticommunist rot unlike every single one in Poland.
Also, how are the book prices in China? In Poland they literally went 50-100% up over last year, and they weren't cheap to begin with.
Based China
New York and Los Angeles would barely count as tier 3 China cities.
How do Chinese city tiers work? What are the criteria?
It's very unofficial, and mostly coming from a few publications within the PRC that each use their own criteria for ranking: wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_city_tier_system
I think the bottom picture on the right is concept art from Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. One of my favorite games ever.
Upper right image in the back instantly invokes this music for me.
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We never left the twentieth century because it was too profitable to some ghouls.
