@KinderheimRune in many rapidly developing or developed countries. UAE, SK, Taiwan, Singapore, and even Japan all have temporary guest worker programs.
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I'm a First Island Chain kinda guy
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@KinderheimRune Pretty sure those coastal regions in China are like 99% Chinese. I don't think mass immigration is the reason South Korea, Taiwan, and China got so much richer since the 90's.
And even if you need foreign labor, guest workers rather than immigrants have been more than sufficient
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It is common knowledge that Japan had a larger economy than all of Asia combined in 1995.
By 2025, just a few coastal Chinese provinces have a larger economy than all of Japan.
I really wonder where Japan would have been in 2026 if they had opened doors to immigration earlier?
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@Linahuaa I really don't think you need to bring race into this. If the Taiwanese want validation from any group of people, it's the Japanese and not Europeans or Americans.
And the Taiwanese have always been pretty realistic. They were willing to fight with America's support, but they
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Supporting China is now the cool hipster move.
More and more Westerners will join the new cool China train until being a Chinaboo becomes mainstream.
And once most White people approve of China, Taiwan people will suddenly also want to be Chinese again instead of being lame and gay.
White people will watch Chinese animes and play Chinese video games and Taiwanese will be like: "Thank you White man, I'm honored that you like my culture!"
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@CorvidDevoid I truly feel bad for the Japanese sometimes, and I feel for the well-intentioned tourists who can't experience what Japanese was like before Covid.
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@CorvidDevoid Every time I go back to Japan, something new has changed for the worse because of low trust behavior from tourists.
People carving names into temples/shrines, stealing random stuff from everywhere, littering (especially in NATURE), and doing unhygienic stuff in hot springs.
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I agree. Japan is overrated as a travel destination
So please stop going to Japan and disturb the Japanese people there, okay? Some of you made us foreigners look bad to them and they had to close off some places to all of us because you misbehave there or don't respect the people.
EchoesOfEarth🌍@naturalbeautyi7
Japan is overrated as a travel destination and people only go because of anime culture. Fight me.
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@morris_que14 from its Japanese colonialism legacy.
You can casually get Japanese or Japanese fusion food that utterly outclasses almost anything you can get in Xiamen, much less the rest of the province.
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@morris_que14 Way off base.
Taipei is the densest collection of interesting and cool small businesses in the world. Literally unrivaled how much cool stuff is stuff into such a small area. It alone has 42 Michelin star rated restaurants. Fujian as a whole only has 7.
Taiwan also benefits
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Taiwan is like an overrated version of neighbouring Fujian province. You could literally get the same stuff at a fraction of the price in Xiamen compared to Taipei. The same food, the same local dialect. The same everything.
Romy@Romy_Holland
taiwan is pretty dope. i’m gonna be sad if china takes it. something distinctive would be lost, nothing great would be gained.
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@boom_tentpeg The Chinese youth is more damaged by social media than any group I've seen in the world. Phone addiction is on the level of 19th century opium addiction. I've seen young people jogging/biking outside while holding up a phone to watch videos.
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Longstayed@longstayed
@stanfordNYC One thing I've noticed while traveling is that Chinese people are by far the most screen addicted people in the world. It's completely common to see them walk down busy streets with their phones glued to their faces and not caring if they run into anyone. And this is especially
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This isn't true. Douyin is absolutely full of the most deranged antisocial content you can imagine; it's just not "political" in the same straightforward way TikTok allows.
Popular Douyin genres include:
- "bed rotting", where influencers make content about being unemployed homebodies with no prospects or ambitions
- looksmaxxing and pro-ana, but even more deranged than the Western version
- shilling for shady beauty treatments like skin lightening injections and creams full of mercury (iirc, this one's more a Red Note thing, but related)
- influencers monetizing major life events like weddings through overt sponsorships
- street influencers who take over entire bridges in order to monetize pity watching
- and yes, plenty of racist/xenophobic conspiracy content
Chinese Zoomers and Gen Alpha are just as demoralized and disaffected as their Western counterparts. The Chinese state is just better at mobilizing state capacity to stop them from going apeshit.
The problem is the short-form content platforms themselves, not some magic algorithm.
Shaun Maguire@shaunmmaguire
We misunderstood the TikTok threat model The algorithm is *not* manipulated TikTok itself is banned in China They use a different app (Douyin) Douyin’s algorithm is: maximize harmony TikTok’s algorithm is: maximize division It’s not manipulated on specific topics (it was occasionally in the past) Why do we allow an app that’s banned in China? I’m open to Douyin in America but TikTok must be banned This is reverse Opium Wars; or digital covid
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@AngelicaOung sustain an army. There's not enough calories in the mountains to sustain any kind of sizeable fighting force.
And with modern tech, you can just sweep the mountains for heat signature at night and pretty easily wipe out anything not hidden in an underground bunker.
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@AngelicaOung People need to realize there's no way for Taiwanese people to fight insurgent war. People point to Vietnam, Afganistan, etc but they all had large land borders that insurgents can retreat across and easily get supplies from.
And yes, Taiwan has some mountains, but they can't
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“An insurgent uprising in Taipei”
You have GOT to be kidding me
Joequant@joequant
This is *weird*. Telling the Taiwanese public, the US is going to abandon you, but we expect you to undertake a "hellscape defense" is a hard sell politically. At that point, you might just go to Beijing and see what they have to offer...... mwi.westpoint.edu/hellscape-defe…
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@TheUniqueMag @jacobrodri_ I hope you're also reaching to people from your country who have successfully emigrated for guidance. And I also recommend casting a wider net because there's more high QoL countries than just Canada.
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@longstayed @jacobrodri_ Exactly, my goal is to move Bangkok next year and spend like 2 years there. At the same time trying to build more skills and save a bit of money then move to Canada. This roughly what I have in my mind right now, still don't know how it will go. Thank you!
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bangkok might be the best capital city in the world:
- cheap rent
- modern infrastructure
- strong expat + digital nomad scene
- ultra safe
- low taxes
- elite nightlife
- paradise islands just 1 hour away
two weeks here and other big cities start to feel like a scam
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@TheUniqueMag @jacobrodri_ Canada has the better upside but if you have internationally recognized skills that allow you to earn USD, $1000 certainly goes pretty far in Bangkok.
You want to ultimately maximize the value of your skills and choose where to live based on that.
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@longstayed @jacobrodri_ I certainly agree with you, I do live in a third world country with very low OoL. So, Bangkok would be a step up for me. I do work remotely and my budget is around 1k per month. Or I might apply for an immigration to Canada and live in high OoL city there
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@alreadydawn This really depends on what kind of "unraveling" we'll see.
There are many ways this can play out that most of us won't want to stick around to witness. Check out what happened in the Balkans after Tito died.
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Anyone who’s been monitoring the situation knows that the US political system is corrupt beyond repair. That said, new opportunities will arise as things unravel slowly. Don’t blackpill, focus on the things you can do, take care of your health, build relationships with good people.
🏴☠️@calvinfroedge
The one silver lining of the Massie loss is that goyim knowing has gone parabolic Tens of millions of Americans who just a few years ago never even thought about Israel are now acutely aware that they control our political system, military, and economy
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@abigbluebird Singapore doesn't even sniff S-tier, but it does punch well above its weight compared to other city-states.
You really want to temper people's expectations because S-tier belongs to the heavy hitters like Mexican, Japanese, and maybe Italian food.
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Singapore’s food or culinary scene to me is S-tier not because of our hawker centre culture imo.
There’s great food in our hawker centre of course, but many countries have a vibrant local offering as well.
How do you compare our chicken rice to the bun cha you get in Hanoi, the hoi tod in Bangkok etc? It’s all down to personal taste and preferences.
This is most apparent to me when my Western friends are in town and I bring them to Chinese restaurants. If you’re from NYC, odds are you’ll take a liking to the heavier Hokkien palate and Cantonese flourishes. If you’re French, you might be more partial to the nuances of Teochew cuisine etc.
Where Singapore shines imo, is the variety of high quality international cuisine that we get, alongside our local dishes. In that aspect, I think only Hong Kong in Asia is in the same tier.
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@Linahuaa Not sure if the analogy works very well. There's very much a top down component to the cultural revolution that doesn't compare to the anti-AI movement.
And the cultural revolution had a goal/vision of a better future. I don't know what anti-AI's vision of the future is.
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USA's current situation is somewhat akin to China's during the cultural revolution.
People are trying to assassinate CEOs and presidents & probably also bomb data centers later
The entire AI elite is pretty much universally hated with a passion- and AI twitter/elites don't even register it because they're all living in algorithm-segregated ivory towers.
I think what will happen next is that poor libs will rage harder and harder against the machine (we're still far away from the real boiling point).
More assassinations, more protests, more crimes.
Society will plunge into chaos for a good decade.
But then people will get tired of this shit and vote for a police state.
They will be terrified of chaos and become much more willing to accept order, technocratic governance, economic growth, and political control.
They will basically arrive at the point where Chinese people are already at right now.
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS
Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI. They tell him to BOO off. This is what most people think of the hated AI, we don't want it.
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@TheUniqueMag @jacobrodri_ There's many price ranges in Bangkok. I mean locals live on less than $1000 per month and there's expats sending kids to private schools that need $15,000 per month to be comfortable.
I'd rather work a normal job in a high QoL city than penny pinch in BKK.
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@longstayed @jacobrodri_ Where do you think is a better city? But also, within the same price range as Bangkok, I mean on the affordable side
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@fredsoda I don't accept America for what it is because I remember what it was when I was growing up and I know how EASY it would be to recover at least 80% of what it's lost by just reversing some of the braindead policies we've adopted in the last 10-15 years.
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@Linahuaa Is this typically the case for international schools in countries like Japan, SK, and Singapore as well?
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Name one world class talent that the Chinese international school pipeline has produced.
Shanghai American School Notable alumni in its 112 years history: One random non-Chinese basketball player lol
T. Greer@Scholars_Stage
As someone who used to teach at one of these schools this is absolutely ridiculous. The top 10 or so international schools in Beijing and Shanghai are so selective that it does not *matter* what you teach the kids. The top of the classes would be world class talents if you scheduled an hour of crayon drawing everyday.
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@CorvidDevoid I get the sense that Japan is a country where thoughtfulness and consideration for others is typically reciprocated. Whereas in many of the less developed parts of China, it's taken for granted or even viewed as performative and pretentious.
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In Japan, you have to be extra sensitive to the people there and follow their etiquette strictly. But once you are accustomed to it, it's a peaceful life.
In China, only stay in the smart cities like Shanghai, Chongqing, Beijing, Shenzhen or Hangzhou. These cities are as safe and clean as Japan, and people there are more relaxed and friendlier (they are not your Chinese train shitting bumpkins but rather your more civilised and educated ones). The rest of China is not worth living in for foreigners.
It depends on you. Do you want a peaceful society like Japan or a friendly society like the Chinese Cities?
sora of shedtwt@stupiddollboy
would u rather live in japan or china
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@jacobrodri_ And the country is not safe in the way Japan is safe. There's massive human trafficking going on in Thailand. Lots of shady foreigners engaged in shady activities. Lots of low ambition people just happy to get by.
I wouldn't describe it as an inspiring place for talented people.
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@jacobrodri_ so you'll need to take long uncomfortable bus rides to explore most of the country. Scootering and even driving can get dangerous.
The metro has improved its coverage but it's still far from comprehensive.
If you like to be outside, expect mosquitoes and sunburns.
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