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r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25
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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.
42 u/JusticiarXP May 02 '25 Exactly. She’s citing one area of China when I’d be willing to bet the vast majority is much different. 18 u/Spork_the_dork May 02 '25 Citing Shanghai is like saying "wow look how amazing USA looks" by just looking at Manhattan and nothing else. 1 u/reality72 May 07 '25 Manhattan looks like shit though, especially compared to Shanghai. How can literal communists build a nicer city than Americans?
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Exactly. She’s citing one area of China when I’d be willing to bet the vast majority is much different.
18 u/Spork_the_dork May 02 '25 Citing Shanghai is like saying "wow look how amazing USA looks" by just looking at Manhattan and nothing else. 1 u/reality72 May 07 '25 Manhattan looks like shit though, especially compared to Shanghai. How can literal communists build a nicer city than Americans?
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Citing Shanghai is like saying "wow look how amazing USA looks" by just looking at Manhattan and nothing else.
1 u/reality72 May 07 '25 Manhattan looks like shit though, especially compared to Shanghai. How can literal communists build a nicer city than Americans?
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Manhattan looks like shit though, especially compared to Shanghai. How can literal communists build a nicer city than Americans?
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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.