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Native Chinese here. There were many cultural and regional differences between cities. China is a country compared to the whole Europe in scale. People in diff

Native Chinese here. There were many cultural and regional differences between cities. China is a country compared to the whole Europe in scale. People in different cities even can not talk with each other. The dialects are very different, especially in the south. Unfortunately, nowadays nearly all cities in China are more and more similar during mass construction in recent 20 years. When travelling in different cities, I often had a moment to forget which city I was in. Same building, same street, same chained stores.

dmix 10y ago
> Same building, same street, same chained stores. As Tyler Cowen said in Creative Destruction the cities, architecture, and culture may begin to merge and look the same but this modernization ultimately helps create a greater variation among individual people. Subcultures still flourish they are just less regional and local. Our creativity is stimulated due to greater contact between the various global (and cross-China) cultures creating a greater variety of culture or an enhanced breadth of existing cultures. So it's not all bad, just different. https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Globalization-Changing-Cultures/dp/0691117837/ https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Globalization-Ch...