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China Is Building Enormous Self-Sustaining Cities All over the African Continent
- olivermarks 7y agoQuotes this article extensively but I thought the original summary post made some additional good points https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2018/08/04/china-is-treating-africa-the-same-way-european-colonists-did/#46a62191298b https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2018/08/04/c...
- nickserv 7y agoI wonder if this will mean social and cultural mixing, where Chinese mingle and intermarry with the locals.
- Glawen 7y agoI think it is highly unlikely due to the chinese culture and how they view africans. There is a very good documentary called empire of dust that gives a good hindsight of the culture clash: https://youtu.be/1a-QpyF7rNc https://youtu.be/1a-QpyF7rNc The cultural mixing thing is a modern western fantasy of the elites, not shared at all by a majority of the world.