Message from @Legna
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I'm snotting and scratching all over the place and have been for a couple of weeks
Been trying not to take anything for it except at it's worst
i could be running a temperature, or i could just be a fat middle aged bloke who just did some housework đ
@Cassiopeia Yeah I remember when I found out that the Chinese donât flush the toilet paper after use.
that's not just the chinese
quite common, local plumbing dependent
I was only living in China. Where else do they do that?
greece, cyprus, turkey
Oh lol
don't get me wrong, it's filthy, but i don't think it's entirely cultural
Itâs 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 thatâs for sure lol
they didn't have the same industrialisation process there over time
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
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 youâre being looked at like an alien lol
that's because western phases of this part of development are beyond living memory now
I dunno it wasnât that long ago. Gen x would have remembered the grey suits and bicycles
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 theyâre memories of that time has probably been erased for many
Was interesting peopleâs 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 donât 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 âlook at all these expensive things we haveâ almost like âthis is what our blind devotion gets usâ
There was a time when all hotels serving foreigners were like that, pretty much anywhere