Comments by "The Asian Jaywalker" (@theasianjaywalker4455) on "China’s $40 Billion Olympics Now Ruins; Some Grow Vegetables on Debris" video.

  1. Yes, you are right! this was something people said.
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  2. China can be difficult. Then and now they couldn't understand that it wasn't just Beijing 'teaching the world a punishing lesson of its might' by deciding to show everyone how it can host the Olympics better than 'the west' and all this attitude. They didn't realize that the Olympics were chosen for Beijing as a kind of reward and modern welcome as (what was then believed) to a China with major trade deals and coming out of it's hermit kingdom. Then almost EVERYTHING Olympic is done by, planned by, engineered by international teams. China didn't make that but instead 'hosted' a massive event foreigners make. But they can't seem to do things without this attitude and this scoffing arrogance and smirking that China should host all the Olympics so foreigners can learn how it's done. Yes, btw, they did wreck a lot of neighborhoods. I've been in them 2009/10 where you'd see whitewashed walls with 'childrens olympic paintings' on the outside but behind it Hutongs halfway into rubble, walls torn down (a Michael Jordan poster on an exposed bedroom wall funnily enough) and no I wasn't supposed to be in there. That said, many of those places were due to be rebuilt with highrises no matter what. Olympics or not.
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