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ScallionPancake on scored.co
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> You just don't have any reason to go outside the orchestrated tourist areas
I go see a couple tourist things and then start walking, driving, or exploring in a random direction to see what the country is really like. I never said it's heaven on earth, but it really isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is. People would be surprised if they went to China, you only see the worst of the worst in videos on the web.
> I assume these three cities were also some of their top tier cities, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzen right?
Actually Shanxi, Chengdu, Lijiang, and I flew into Beijing for a couple days so that doesn't count. I was in China for an entire month.
> It's exactly like going to Kensington avenue only and then judge all of America by that single street.
Bullshit dude, I went to three entire cities, not a single street. How do you even compare the two? Don't try to imply that entire cities are just "orchestrated tourist areas".
> For a country with as much manufacturing as China has, it's not unreasonable to assume that a majority of Chinas population are in fact factory workers.
Nobody is saying being a factory worker in China is a good thing, and yes they have a large population of workers who have rather crap living conditions.. Nobody is denying that. But if you are middle class in China, the life they can have is not as bad as you might think, and as a society they are trending upwards. There was a lot of things that I saw them doing much much much better than anywhere in the US or Europe. For example: Customer service.
I go see a couple tourist things and then start walking, driving, or exploring in a random direction to see what the country is really like. I never said it's heaven on earth, but it really isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is. People would be surprised if they went to China, you only see the worst of the worst in videos on the web.
> I assume these three cities were also some of their top tier cities, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzen right?
Actually Shanxi, Chengdu, Lijiang, and I flew into Beijing for a couple days so that doesn't count. I was in China for an entire month.
> It's exactly like going to Kensington avenue only and then judge all of America by that single street.
Bullshit dude, I went to three entire cities, not a single street. How do you even compare the two? Don't try to imply that entire cities are just "orchestrated tourist areas".
> For a country with as much manufacturing as China has, it's not unreasonable to assume that a majority of Chinas population are in fact factory workers.
Nobody is saying being a factory worker in China is a good thing, and yes they have a large population of workers who have rather crap living conditions.. Nobody is denying that. But if you are middle class in China, the life they can have is not as bad as you might think, and as a society they are trending upwards. There was a lot of things that I saw them doing much much much better than anywhere in the US or Europe. For example: Customer service.