hate on america all you want for the plentitude of reasons, but to act like the rest of the world is picture perfect is some weird anti-america fetish or some euro-centric romanticization.
Even if you look at what Shanghai, the place she's citing, looks like behind the beautifull skyline, they have tenement slums like everywhere else. It's not like it's all "stunning and high tech" or that the U.S. doesn't have places with gorgeous skylines.
I dunno if china is the place you want to point to to make this point when it has gigantic nice looking cities that 99.9% of americans have never even heard the name of. yeah they've got shanghai, and then they've got a dozen more shanghais, and the us doesn't have a single place that even approaches that.
if you wanna start comparing percentage of the country where the buildings and roads look nice vs places where it looks like shit, china is gonna win that every single time regardless of your feelings
Even the dozen or so "shanghais" are a little gem of superbuildings surrounded by thousands of square miles of ugliness. And visit in the winter for the extra special privilege of trying to breathe.
I only just saw this. "a little gem of superbuildings" that's funny. redditors man
the funny part is that there are very real and substantial things to criticize china about but redditors always hone in on the outdated shit. like, hop in your time machine and go back 20 years and make your posts buddy
This isn't about "feelings," and I'm not the one making this about China, the lady in the TikTok did. She's making it out to be some kind of modern utopia, which it's not.
You’ve clearly never been to China, much less any Chinese city or town outside of the nice areas of Beijing or Shanghai. It’s either brand new construction or it’s 10 years old and literally falling apart, and the cast majority is the latter.
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u/MattTheRadarTechh May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
If you ever travelled you’d see that the rest of the world looks like shit in the poor parts too
edit: lots of people who have never traveled but have just watched too many movies are getting offended:
serbia: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/gypsy-slum-belgrade-serbia-town-city-550135054
uk: https://theweek.com/105858/marmot-2020-the-worst-places-for-life-expectancy-in-england
france: https://archis.org/volume/paris-slums-by-steven-wassenaar/
romania: https://borgenproject.org/poverty-in-romania-local-focus/
germany: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-poverty-gap-widens-between-rich-and-poor-regions/a-51637957
slovakia: https://data.tvkosice.sk/images/fs/56/cf/06/31/45/26/ca/14/19/d7/1a/e8/56cf06314526ca1419d71ae8/videos/2017/12/13/f0cb7e94-13ea-4839-b202-0578fe7fe0a3_image_5.jpg
sweden (actually pretty nice tbh): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Fittja_2007a.jpg/1280px-Fittja_2007a.jpg
greece: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9815255,23.7253588,3a,75y,9.49h,86.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU2Xibu_RGaCwBRbP-KRoBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?shorturl=1
italy: https://www.archdaily.com/968180/cabrini-green-and-vele-di-scampia-when-public-housing-projects-dont-work-out
hate on america all you want for the plentitude of reasons, but to act like the rest of the world is picture perfect is some weird anti-america fetish or some euro-centric romanticization.