Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "What Angela Merkel's exit means for Germany — and Europe" video.
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@Supertomiman Shanghai is a huge city built on an unpopulated mud flat. It replaces no traditional culture. It introduces inland Chinese, refugee European, and sophisticated Northern Chinese cultures to an area where there was formerly nothing.
Mixing with the culture and linguistic accent of the surrounding provinces, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang, the sophisticated urban mix of Shanghai is producing a new culture. At the same time, the surrounding older ones are prospering. Nearby Suzhou, for instance, was a nondescript backwater before Shanghai's prosperity enriched and enlarged it. With wealth has come the rise of a proud, distinct, and flourishing Suzhou niche culture.
Long story short: you're on the right track, cultural change, but you're headed 180 degrees in the wrong direction. We're seeing vibrancy and flourishing, not exhaustion and extinction of the many cultures of China.
And a footnote: Welsh, which was clearly headed for extinction in my childhood, has recovered nicely, thank you very much. Romany is doing the same -- and I'd never even heard of Occitan until it popped up as one of the options on Notepad++ - everywhere in the world.
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@Supertomiman
Quite the contrary, that Shanghai skyline is uniquely Shanghai's. Nowhere else will you see several of those peculiarly Shanghai skyscrapers, the ball-shaped one, the one with the dipped air-flow gap, and several others.
What we are seeing here is the unique genius of Chinese engineering -- quite different from the Graeco-Roman blocks that typify the original American skyscrapers which started the genre a century ago.
Certainly it could be in the UAE -- but it isn't. That's all: there is a factual world out there, and it coesn't care much about your theories.
I guess it's a tough life, being an anonymous, opinionated Internet troll that reality won't comply with. Sad.
Now there is a global culture, you're right -- but note its individuality: everybody who pays attention and isn't carrying your particular set of grudges knows Shanghai from the UAE, and can tell both of them from New York or San Francisco -- equally international and equally unique cities.
If you're bored by it, you've certainly got a problem -- but it's your problem, not ours, much as you try to bore us with your repeated whines in text here.
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@MyVlogTubes
Hunh? Here in Canada I don't see your "those racists bastards of moslims."
The muslims I meet here tend to be refugees from exactly the sort of authoritarian and mob-violent societies you are objecting to. They make fine Canadians and add to the richness of our culture.
You are right, however, in pointing to the problems of the societies they are fleeing. My own feeling, and it's tentative, is that the racism and particularism that you so correctly object to are surface manifestations, the waves above the deep current, of larger problems.
The larger problem is not the shouting about who wears what kind of hat on Sunday, or Saturday, or... It is massive unemployment of young men. There are well-known false solutions to this, militarism and gangsterism, the latter often disguised (as in the United States) as religious fundamentalism.
I think you should pay more attention to that, and think about solutions to it.
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