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The thing I feel like is really important to remember whenever thinking about the world and demographics is that most people are Asian. As in more people live i
by neaden 7mo ago
The thing I feel like is really important to remember whenever thinking about the world and demographics is that most people are Asian. As in more people live in Asia then outside of it. Conversely when a headline or something mentions Asia, it is rare they actually mean the majority of the continent or people living there.
- bombcar 7mo agoIt's too broad a term - it covers too many disparate countries and ends up being like using Americas to refer to Canada and the USA or similar. I read the headline and assumed it was "Japan and China" but it wasn't.
- EA-3167 7mo agoThe equivalent term is "The West."
- neaden 7mo agoTBF the entire Western Hemisphere is about the population of China, so it's actually far far worse.
- aleph_minus_one 7mo agoIt is quite unclear how big China's population really is; see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbMWq-xvXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbMWq-xvXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymmaYswXm78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymmaYswXm78
- jama211 7mo agoYoutube videos are always a poor quality source - the UN doesn’t accept China’s numbers exactly but they believe the total number is broadly correct due to cross referenced data, and expert independent demographers largely agree. The figure of 1.4 billion is likely within the ballpark and the idea that this is off by hundreds of millions is considered a fairly fringe theory, almost a conspiracy theory.
- Barrin92 7mo ago>I now believe China’s actual population may be as low as 300–400 million that we now live in a world where people are confident enough to make claims this stupid in front of a camera should frighten anyone. Some basic logic, if China had the population of the United States it would have magically acquired the per capita economic output of the US in ~30 years, consume several times the energy and food it imports and somehow have produced several cities the size of Tokyo. The fact that China produces ~50% of the world's ships and has the manufacturing output of of the G7 combined is impressive with over a billion people, but hey they must have some space age technology to do it with 3% of the world's population! In philosophy there's a concept called the coherence theory of truth, if you want to know if something is true check if it doesn't defy basic logic or other facts you know, great tool instead of believing what youtubers say
- pocksuppet 7mo agoWhy is it impossible that China acquired the per capita economic output of the US?
- Barrin92 7mo agobecause that would mean virtually every place in the country would look like Singapore, it would be significantly richer ,per capita, than Taiwan, millions of economic migrants would have left the country for no reason, and I suppose also be conjured out of thin air given that the Chinese diaspora is about 40 million people large. Which is shockingly enough comparable to Indians abroad, not Americans
- speefers 7mo ago[dead]
- jghn 7mo agoMy favorite is when people say they like "asian cuisine" or "asian food". China alone has several distinct cuisines. Why do we act like this is a monolithic concept?
- kubb 7mo agoIt's similar to how people say "Europe does this or that". Basically the part of their thoughts dedicated to that part of the world is so small that all they can afford is a tiny box, and everything has to go in there, reality be damned.
- Muromec 7mo agoEurope at the very least has one parliament that sometimes passes laws that apply to almost the whole continent
- pocksuppet 7mo agoNot really, it's not sovereign. The EU can pass laws that each European country chooses to implement. If they don't implement enough EU laws, they can get kicked out, which means more pieces of paper are written and some European countries might choose to afford them less privileges.
- jimnotgym 7mo ago> The EU can pass laws that each European country... Each EU member state, the UK, Switzerland and Russia don't really get involved
- pocksuppet 7mo agoThose countries may also ratify EU laws if they wish. I think the UK has something similar to GDPR and Switzerland also picks and chooses which laws it thinks make sense.
- Pay08 7mo agoNot to mention that people tend to lump Oceania into it too.
- TacticalCoder 7mo agoAKA the "Valerieperis circle": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle#/media/File:Valeriepieris_Circle.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle#/media/Fi...