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IMHO this is measuring things with a rather ethnocentric view (your current place / culture / time in economy and history). Makes sense in your context, but not
by K0SM0S 7y ago
IMHO this is measuring things with a rather ethnocentric view (your current place / culture / time in economy and history). Makes sense in your context, but not so much in today's China's.
There is a massive (high eight-figures) migration from rural to (increasingly newly-built) urban centers taking place over a generation or two (read: insanely fast), and a whole lot of small problems just become massive at scale; too much jaywalking in a —very— crowded city leads to deaths or snail traffic, plain and simple. See how people die in India every single day in overcrowded train stations. Concentrations to a degree we are seldom acquainted with in the West, but that Asia knows at lot more, come with necessary rules enforced to a tighter degree.
We don't have to agree that others do it better, there's certainly a reason why we're here and not there; but that doesn't mean they have it wrong in their context — and unless you actually go there, you really can't judge. Merely try to understand 'why this' or 'why not that' and hope to form a not-too-skewed idea, which is very hard to do from incomplete sources filtered by one's own perception/bias.