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is taiwan:china, south korea:north korea accurate?

Except most people think of China as it is in the 80s. People still think mass bicycles. It's not that bad anymore. Actually Taiwan is probably more mass mopeds than China is mass bicycles. When you stand at a busy intersection, the first 30 seconds that goes is not all cars, it's a bunch of motoscooters that zoom past you. Then come the cars.

And Shanghai is very different. This past year versus when I went in 2001 was night and day. And to think most people still think of the country as very backwards....

Granted, China is very diverse. I've been in the countryside in 05 or something for a 2 week vacation. Yeah, that's impoverished, backwards, rural, but the country is large enough with 1+ billion people that they have enough upper class rich folk smartasses who send their kids to the US and flood the US universities with nerds and cause my genius high school status to diminish to mere average in college =/
 
Mainland China isn't even close to being as bad as North Korea. There are many human rights abuses but they don't have as their leader an insane little man who threatens his neighbors with nuclear annihilation and whose people are required by law to worship him as a god.
 
Human rights abuses yeah, and the average person is ok in China. However, if anyone's paid attention to the past 10 years, the elite rich are getting richer in China. More of them are heading for the US, but it completely took me by surprise that some friends have mansions and many apartments in China. Far richer than some members of my family in Taiwan who are in executive management and stuff...
 
DLeRium said:
Human rights abuses yeah, and the average person is ok in China. However, if anyone's paid attention to the past 10 years, the elite rich are getting richer in China. More of them are heading for the US, but it completely took me by surprise that some friends have mansions and many apartments in China. Far richer than some members of my family in Taiwan who are in executive management and stuff...
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What? Members of your family do not have multiple apartments in China for their multiple Chinese mistresses??? How do they live with themselves??
 
China: A big brother and politically oppressive to Taiwan. Aside from politics, mainland Chinese live fine for the most part

NK: A trainwreck of dictatorship with their people starving. SK & NK mind their own biz for the most part. NK won't and can't tell SK what to do and not do.

<--- S Korean.
 
BlahBlahYouToo said:
is taiwan:china, south korea:north korea accurate???
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ADDAvenger said:
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As many other people have said, no.

Why do we let this guy keep making threads? They aren't even entertaining.
 
i think the worst areas in TW isn't as bad as the worst areas in China, in terms of material life, and in terms of basic human rights.

What taiwan has over china is free speech and a much better level of human rights respect. Both governments are corrupt (just like our own) in different ways, and I' not going to pretend that democracy is really about what is best for the people, but in Taiwan you can run your mouth off all day and protest all day. In China you'll get farked hard by the government (go take a look at the many missing activists). That isn't to say it doesn't happen in China, often one can find people rally against local business and it is accepted because they rally against the business and petition the govt to come save the day, but that isn't the norm. Behind all the external beauty, it is a police state, and arrest of activists, the great firewall, and muzzling things like tiananmen (Which is also misunderstood in our own society) is very visible. Personally, if the chinese government gave all their people those basic human rights, then i wouldn't care at all; create a facade of a democracy and let the elite enrich themselves...but because they cut off those basic human rights, I get annoyed.

And what was the point of this thread? I'm sure not sure, which is probably why i went on my own tangents.

Oh and any comparison to NK:SK is going to be superficial at best. Guomindang ran to TW once they got their asses kicked in Mainland China, set up camp, and spent a long time oppressing the local population that lived on the island. Korea? I don't know...maybe someone can explain things
 
North Korea is in a class its own. Only place that comes close to it in WTF scale is probably Zimbabwe.
 
@DLeRium: dude we have the same avatar!!!

anyway, here's another bone to throw at you guys:

America will collapse if China was wiped off the face of the earth
America couldn't care less for North Korea
 
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