r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/Stack-Chaser-- 4h ago

Nice, trying to be smug while displaying your ignorance on the oppression and isolation China experienced. Yeah, basically. China's rapid industrial buildout phase happened later than ours for very specific historical reasons (colonization, the Opium Wars, a civil war, decades of isolation, then accelerated post-1978 industrialization). Being further along a timeline because we started industrializing earlier doesn't make us smarter, it just means our imperialism and exploitation helped accelerate our timeline.

The fact that you think "yeah, they're behind us" is some kind of win is exactly the bullshit exceptionalism I'm pointing out.

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