Discovery Atlas: China

[Board of Command]

China is a pure, absolute shit hole (literally apparantly)

You know, they actually have shit holes in the extremly rural areas. To keep things simple...

bathroom = shit hole in the ground inside a little shack

I would have taken a picture of one but didn't have a camera on hand.

[bagandscalpel]

You know, they actually have shit holes in the extremly rural areas. To keep things simple...

bathroom = shit hole in the ground inside a little shack

I would have taken a picture of one but didn't have a camera on hand.

Heh, and here I was wondering whether to raise the "squatting-shitter" topic.

Which reminds me, can anyone confirm the existance of human meatbuns?

[Kraco]

But let's say an american citizen goes into China and throws a grenade into a restaurante, picks up an AK-47 and shoots 37 people. I'm pretty sure China would have the authority to shoot the man on sight.

That has little to do with the judicial system. If a mass murderer is killing people left and right, bringing him down by any means available is the only option for the police. But even in China the police is not regularly, I believe, the one dealing out sentences. It's the judicial system. A small-time drug smuggler can be arrested peacefully, as opposed to a person equipped with an AK-47 and hand grenades.

I'm no government student either, but I think this is to prevent bribes, blackmail, and corruption among those in the judicial branch. It is much easier for them in their huge population to say, if you break the law, you die, than to have a court meeting every time someone in their 1.3 billion population commits a crime. Also, I think it is an attempt to become one step closer to a more perfect society where wrong-doers don't exist.

There's also an inherent contradiction hidden in that line of thought. If there's no fair and complete judicial system but something that is "efficient for such a large population" then it means people can't trust it and in order to survive they have no choice but to rely on bribes or powerful friends, that is, corruption. Only a perfect legal system that is fair to everybody ensures nobody needs to hand out money and favours to get fair treatment (needs or it's of any use).

Well, China occupied position 78 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2005. I suppose it indicates they haven't totally lost the war to the corruption, but there would also be much room for improvement.

[Lefty]

Lets not forget that China is sitll a communist state, but they hide it under the venire of westernizaton. But at the rate China is growing it will reach it's critical mass and collapse with in the next decade or two. Black Tuesday will seem like a cake walk when China goes tits up.

[Board of Command]

China is definitely not a communist state.

[Lefty]

I assure you China is still a Communist state. They still have the party, peopel are opprest just as they were before but now thye have a middle class to hisde the xream poverty the lower class lives in. All of the people they showed were middle class, very well off. The atlas thing was one giant prodapganda film in a way. it only shows the bright shinnny side of China. I mean you can't even film in the country with a govement envoy watching everything you do, every question you ask, and what the interviewie says. Oh yeah it's an open state.

[Board of Command]

The middle class is not as well off as you'd expect. Most of them only make enough money to get through the month and put their children in school. Very little is left over.

[ChaosK]

The middle class is not as well off as you'd expect. Most of them only make enough money to get through the month and put their children in school. Very little is left over.

Ya know, this is kinda why so many of them come to America/Canada....

[XanBcoo]

Ya know, this is kinda why so many of them come to America/Canada....

I'd guess that's pretty much exactly why so many of them come to America/Canada. If you look up reasons for immigration from one place to another, I'm sure "better standard of living" is pretty high on the list, if not the first.

[ChaosK]

I'm pretty sure religion and other freedoms stands up there...after all, China is still communist.

[Sapphire]

Bumped! But this seems like the perfect topic..

China is unique in that they systematically still hand pick children from a young age and pretty much gear their entire life to the pursuit of one skill or field, and having 1 billion people to choose from helps in that cause.

I've heard this before. What exactly is the job and school process in China, anyway? How to people pick their careers and stuff? How similar is it to America?