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The past vs the future
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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tbf the reason you've never heard of it is for the same reason you were taught next to nothing about geography, history, and other cultures. If you don't know anything about anything then it's so easy to convince you that we're the good guys and all the wars are just and necessary
You're right that Americans are under-educated in those areas. However, China has something like a hundred "big cities" (let's say roughly Philadelphia-sized). Only a real geography buff would be able to identify all of them! If Americans knew just ten of them, that would be great.
I’ve got six, what other cities should I know about?
Shanghai, Beijing, Ürümqi, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Taishan
OK, here's a couple more that are famous and great for touristic reasons of history /culture /good food /great landscape /etc
Xi'an (one of the ancient capitals of China, starting point of the traditional and new Silk Road), Guilin (every single time they show China in cartoon, with giant mountains and winding rivers, they're basically showing here), Shenzhen (the new hyper modern high tech city), Guangzhou (old English name was Canton, as in Cantonese food), Suzhou and Hangzhou (historically famed for being chill and beautiful, lakes and canals etc), Hainandao (Chinese version of Hawaii), Nanjing (another ancient capital of China, lots of culture), Harbin (lots of Russian architecture here, and a FANTASTIC and huge ice sculpture show every year)