Gordon
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Filipino beauty standards: make sure you don't look like a Filipino!


14th century Chinese explorer Zheng He's ship compared to Columbus's.



90% of the people in China now own their own households.


India's reality: Locals, including children rummaging through garbage piles, wading in the murky river as garbage floats by, tossing garbage into the water.




For context, China had the technology for gunpowder, printing, and blue ocean exploration hundreds of years before Europe. They failed to use it. That goes beyond a generational fumble. That is a self inflicted civilizational fumble that China still hasn't made up for.




Canadian PM Mark Carney: It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt — but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.















