Message from @Legna

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2020-04-06 09:05:08 UTC  

I was only living in China. Where else do they do that?

2020-04-06 09:05:10 UTC  

greece, cyprus, turkey

2020-04-06 09:05:15 UTC  

Oh lol

2020-04-06 09:05:39 UTC  

don't get me wrong, it's filthy, but i don't think it's entirely cultural

2020-04-06 09:08:57 UTC  

It’s one of many odd things I saw out there. Like some poor bloke walking I. The middle of the road in literally rags while flashy cars drove around him, people spitting every 5 seconds and people smoking in hospitals (everywhere in fact). Drying out food on the floor, being extremely rude. Was a very cool experience that’s for sure lol

2020-04-06 09:09:29 UTC  

they didn't have the same industrialisation process there over time

2020-04-06 09:09:33 UTC  

their change has been rapid

2020-04-06 09:09:39 UTC  

and extremely uneven

2020-04-06 09:09:40 UTC  

Too rapid.

2020-04-06 09:09:52 UTC  

yes, that's why these weird anomolies still exist

2020-04-06 09:10:20 UTC  

in a perfect world you'd want them to develop gradually thus retain the character of the culture but modernising and dropping the stupid stuff

2020-04-06 09:10:26 UTC  

but we don't live in a perfect world, it is how it si

2020-04-06 09:10:57 UTC  

I came back home and then went back 2 years later and they had literally built a new part of the city

2020-04-06 09:11:16 UTC  

there are allegedly new cities mostly empty

2020-04-06 09:11:33 UTC  

I’ve heard that! These were not though

2020-04-06 09:11:50 UTC  

think it's overcapacity due to their modernisation method

2020-04-06 09:12:13 UTC  

and since it's central govmt controlled, they have to keep the accelerator down even if it means overproducing

2020-04-06 09:12:27 UTC  

i'm guessing thats why, alongside the strategic element, they're building across africa too

2020-04-06 09:12:36 UTC  

with little prospect of recouping, financially

2020-04-06 09:12:48 UTC  

"what can we do with this overcapcity that could be useful to us"

2020-04-06 09:13:52 UTC  

Zhaoqing was a pretty bustling place tbh

2020-04-06 09:14:17 UTC  

would be, you've injecting some of the elements of capitalism on a society that can really use it

2020-04-06 09:14:30 UTC  

in an underdeveloped society

2020-04-06 09:14:37 UTC  

so there's a use and a thirst for it

2020-04-06 09:14:57 UTC  

Yeah you can see that when you’re being looked at like an alien lol

2020-04-06 09:15:18 UTC  

that's because western phases of this part of development are beyond living memory now

2020-04-06 09:16:03 UTC  

I dunno it wasn’t that long ago. Gen x would have remembered the grey suits and bicycles

2020-04-06 09:16:30 UTC  

A lot of people forget that for a great many people, the notion of moving to a town for steady low paid work would afford them the security and living standards barely dreamed of before

2020-04-06 09:16:36 UTC  

But I think you are right that they’re memories of that time has probably been erased for many

2020-04-06 09:18:02 UTC  

Was interesting people’s opinions of you would change depending on the politics of the day! Some would lose interest in you if you were not as well off as they assumed etc...

2020-04-06 09:18:29 UTC  

I don’t think I will go back, despite many friends still living there.

2020-04-06 09:18:36 UTC  

for many in a time of agrarian subsistence, you were one moderately bad bit of luck, or one fairly modest disaster away from starving to death

2020-04-06 09:19:00 UTC  

it's a time when competence and trust were highly valued, and why you ended up with fierce loyalties, such as clans, barons etc

2020-04-06 09:21:47 UTC  

Yeah not much of that now. Was introduced to a few officials who were dedicated and ran hotels for the local visiting government types. It was always a parade of “look at all these expensive things we have” almost like “this is what our blind devotion gets us”

2020-04-06 09:22:35 UTC  

There was a time when all hotels serving foreigners were like that, pretty much anywhere

2020-04-06 09:22:44 UTC  

Back in a time of respect and reputation

2020-04-06 09:22:49 UTC  

Right have a 4 year old insisting I put my phone down and look at his alphabet words lol

2020-04-06 09:46:03 UTC  

a little unkind

2020-04-06 09:50:14 UTC  

A devastating blow... for the Tories...
https://twitter.com/LBCNews/status/1247097777882050560?s=20

2020-04-06 09:50:29 UTC  

More children than GCSEs? the fuck