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creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

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.

The region has transformed so much in the past 20 years—I don't think the media/cultural institutions in the US have caught up with this, and hence the lack of informed focus on this part of the world.

Many Americans have visited East Asia though, and would have witnessed the transformation for themselves.