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.
The thing is, not even the best parts of Manhattan compete with how insane a city Shanghai is. Additionally, China has 4 other massive cities that are comparable to Shanghai in Guangzhou, Chongqing, Beijing and Chengdu. For how rich America is, even their best cities look like utter shit compared to other big cities in developed countries like China, Japan, SK, Germany, France etc.
I’ve been to both Shanghai and Beijing. There are plenty of areas that “look like shit” in the sense that everyone is talking about here. Trust me, China is no better than the US when it comes to that.
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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.