I was in shenzen in 1995, and it looked even worse than that 1980 picture of it. Dirt roads, dusty, dilapidated infrastructure, shoeless children wandering the streets, open sewer pits, etc. Now it makes nyc look like a third word country.
China acknowledged that they have issues and worked to solve them. Indian culture is thinking everything about India is already the best. broken roads with nobody following traffic laws, no lanes, people driving in the wrong direction, no helmets, driving on foothpath..all is normalised. inferior and cumbersome solutions in the name of "homegrown" alternatives? don't worry we'll say it's better than western and Chinese solutions. Pollution in cities? we'll just ignore it and call people who try to talk about it weak!
I wish I could say it was a loud minority but honestly it's not. They're good at understanding what the people want to hear. to the point that people will cheer and celebrate things that are harmful to them because they are extremely good at framing things in a way that people find it easy to digest
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u/Euphoric-Potato-4104 4d ago edited 4d ago
I was in shenzen in 1995, and it looked even worse than that 1980 picture of it. Dirt roads, dusty, dilapidated infrastructure, shoeless children wandering the streets, open sewer pits, etc. Now it makes nyc look like a third word country.