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The REAL China (Pics Inside)

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: Atheus
Great pics, terrible thread title.
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What's wrong with the title?
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I just edited it, I was starting a stupid conspiracy with it.

Here was the original title: "I'm beginning to believe SARS was manmade"

 
Wow, really great and fearless photographer (in a sense he is willing to take pictures in dirtiest/most depressing places as well) .
 
If I choose to show some pictures of American life here, the Mods would probably give me a month vacation.

What's your point?
 
I don't think those pictures are fair. Sure they are from China but if someone took pictures of all the ghetto parts of the US and said "The REAL U.S." it would be similar.

I am not Chinese, but I went there in 2001. Not only did I go to Beijing, but I went to rural areas to the north. Some scenes weren't pretty and very unsanitary, but I didn't see anything resembling those. However, China still has a lot of catching up to do.

Some of those pictures look very old.
 
Yeah take a bunch of pics in Gary, Indiana, and call it the real USA.

Photo journalism is a very powerful propaganda.

The real China is somewhere between the skyscrapers in the city and the poor countryside. By only showing only one end of the spectrum, it then evolves from objective journalism to subjective journalism.
 
Link dead. I know most of china is quite poor, so I assume this is like that. It's not somalia, poor, but it's not well off.
 
Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Yeah take a bunch of pics in Gary, Indiana, and call it the real USA.

Photo journalism is a very powerful propaganda.

The real China is somewhere between the skyscrapers in the city and the poor countryside. By only showing only one end of the spectrum, it then evolves from objective journalism to subjective journalism.
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difference is that in china if a communist minder notices you going to the "wrong" places you'll be ejected. in america you can snap away warts and all
 
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