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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
Yeah this isn't true. China has a huge middle class now that travels tons. I've lived here for 6 years and the vast majority are doing quite well. This isn't North Korea. It's a lot more developed than Canada to be honest.
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It's fair to say that a country that has seen mass prosperity for only 20 years is going to be rougher and more sharp-elbowed than a country that has seen mass prosperity for more than 75 years. The Great Chinese Famine, that killed 45 million people, was just winding down when the first Bond movie was released in Canada. The Cultural Revolution, which saw millions of Chinese youths turn in their parents for imprisonment and torture, didn't end until 1976, the year before Star Wars hit the theatres.
A great many people alive in China today lived through, or are only one generation removed from, horrors that most Canadians can scarcely imagine.