Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "China Vs. USA - Comparing our Childhoods" video.

  1. I can partly understand Vivi's experience, even I'm from a "richer" country. Well, it was a different country back then - USSR. There were very few cars, out of 12 families in our apartment building, only one had a car. People mostly used public transportation. Upside if this was - space around houses was free, we, kids could play football and later basketball there. Now cars take up almost every possible space. And yes, sitting home alone was normal, we all went to school on our own from age 8-10, some even earlier. So I was drawing something or reading. We had TV, but only 3 channels (one Moscow TV and two local IIRC), of course, there was no a separate one for kids. XD Hunger... Well, no, I haven't experienced real starvation, only times, when food got really poor in early 1990s, like a week with no meat at all, not even soya substitutes, just some kind of porridge every single day, I was still a fast growing teenager, so it was depressing. And in early 2000s, that's after 1998 financial crisis in Russia and some if Eastern Europe, my wife (we were not dating back then yet) almost starved to death, but got saved by her parents.Thing is, she tried to save money in every way possible, even walked around 5-6 kilometers to work, which was in shifts of 12 hours, and only had like 3 sandwiches a day. It got so bad, she couldn't't phone her parents, since eyesight was impacted by hunger, luckily, the lady who owned the flat helped her and phoned parents. Yet China (at least coastal cities) has went through even bigger changes than my country. Sort of. We no longer are a single party state, we joined EU and NATO, in a way, our changes were even more radical than in China, it's just there can't be a straight, simple comparison between our countries.
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