The girl who was run over

[Kraco]

I think you were one of many who had the wool pulled over your eyes by the Chinese representation of themselves during the last Olympics.

I doubt that could happen any time soon considering how much I laugh at the Sankaku articles on China... However, in my nihilistic world view if a country is already the second largest economy in the world (we are talking about a country that is giving financial aid to the banana republics of southern EU), has launched astronauts into space - not only satellites, has nukes, has world-class scientific researchs, etc. it's not any developing country anymore. If it has problems, it has those problems because it chooses to have them, not because it can't do anything about them like real (and poor) developing countries.

So, yeah, I won't fully accept calling this a side effect of being a developing country. It works for some unfortunate African states suffering from famine, drought, and wars where dying and dead people lie on the streets and nobody simply has the energy to do anything about them. But if the same happens in China, the only explanation would be that nobody cares. And like I said before, this happened in a town, not in some rural village that just got the electricity and TV.

Edit:

The title of this thread sounds like it belongs on the cover of a children's book.

You gave the name to it. Although it's a bit grammatically fixed from your suggestion.

[Carnage]

I doubt that could happen any time soon considering how much I laugh at the Sankaku articles on China... However, in my nihilistic world view if a country is already the second largest economy in the world (we are talking about a country that is giving financial aid to the banana republics of southern EU), has launched astronauts into space - not only satellites, has nukes, has world-class scientific researchs, etc. it's not any developing country anymore. If it has problems, it has those problems because it chooses to have them, not because it can't do anything about them like real (and poor) developing countries.

I think youre mixing up GDP with GDP per capita. Because in those terms China is far from the 2nd best, its not even in the same league. Sure the country is on its way, but for now the vast majority of it is 3rd-world. Imagine if 99% of America was hill billy town, and suburban and urban centers only represented 1% of the country? Yes those numbers are stark, but you know what Im getting at.