Message from @Legna
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their change has been rapid
and extremely uneven
Too rapid.
yes, that's why these weird anomolies still exist
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
but we don't live in a perfect world, it is how it si
I came back home and then went back 2 years later and they had literally built a new part of the city
there are allegedly new cities mostly empty
I’ve heard that! These were not though
think it's overcapacity due to their modernisation method
and since it's central govmt controlled, they have to keep the accelerator down even if it means overproducing
i'm guessing thats why, alongside the strategic element, they're building across africa too
with little prospect of recouping, financially
"what can we do with this overcapcity that could be useful to us"
Zhaoqing was a pretty bustling place tbh
would be, you've injecting some of the elements of capitalism on a society that can really use it
in an underdeveloped society
so there's a use and a thirst for it
Yeah you can see that when you’re being looked at like an alien lol
that's because western phases of this part of development are beyond living memory now
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
But I think you are right that they’re memories of that time has probably been erased for many
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...
I don’t think I will go back, despite many friends still living there.
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
it's a time when competence and trust were highly valued, and why you ended up with fierce loyalties, such as clans, barons etc
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”
There was a time when all hotels serving foreigners were like that, pretty much anywhere
Back in a time of respect and reputation
Right have a 4 year old insisting I put my phone down and look at his alphabet words lol
a little unkind
A devastating blow... for the Tories...
https://twitter.com/LBCNews/status/1247097777882050560?s=20
More children than GCSEs? the fuck
yep, she's a grandmother
she's one of those highschool fuckups who had kids while underage/barely of age
but if people were to hold that against her, they're abolishing the concept of redemption altogether
and that make me feel uncomfortable
i agree
it's a shit argument against her