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One thing I notice in the West especially is this tendency to severely underestimate how much change China has gone through in the past 30ish years. It’s unprecedented at a scale that I don’t portend to even attempt to understand as well, but I think it’s severely overlooked as many in the West

Americans are just not calibrated on how far Asia has advanced.

Why? I think it’s partly because there is no mass media depicting modern life in Asia besides perhaps Crazy Rich Asians. Also partly pride.

Can you share any descriptions or details about the advancements that Americans are missing?

https://x.com/balajis/status/1731662717885579647?s=46

Not saying it's not true but that video doesn't help the case. Wide, aerial shots like those are usually used to hide how lifeless and impersonal cities can be. A good city is human sized and the best camera angles to show that are at human eye level.

this is a hype video for chinese cities (from a tiktok account that only posts hype videos of chinese cities)

Descriptions? details?