Real Woman, since you are so pro-multiculturalism...

[Angry White Male]

I don't know what you're asking but it's past weed 30 so...

Stop getting high!

[Anonymous]

It must have been hard to breathe.

He liked it, the sick bastard!

I'd like to see parts of India too.

[Angry White Male]

I'd like to see parts of India too.

They shit and piss in the streets...  Puts you Chinese, with your throat clearing and spitting, to shame!

[Anonymous]

I'd like to see parts of India too.

They shit and piss in the streets...  Puts you Chinese, with your throat clearing and spitting, to shame!

I wouldn't expect a developing nation to be like Canada..



I lived in Kazakhstan for one year.

[Angry White Male]

How many more centuries will they spend "developing?"



Give me a break.  Japan seemed to have 'developed' just fine...

[RW]

I don't know what you're asking but it's past weed 30 so...

Stop getting high!

NO!

[Angry White Male]

YES!

[RW]

No!  Blazor said I didn't have to.  ac_sothere

[Anonymous]

How many more centuries will they spend "developing?"



Give me a break.  Japan seemed to have 'developed' just fine...

How long did it take Europe to become developed?



Centuries from the start of the industrial revolution.

[Angry White Male]

Europe?  They led the way, Fash, so I'm not sure you want to compare timelines of development with Western Europe, since they set the bar...

[Anonymous]

Europe?  They led the way, Fash, so I'm not sure you want to compare timelines of development with Western Europe, since they set the bar...

They took centuries to become developed from the beginning of the industrial revolution..



By contrast, China only began industrializing in 1978.

[Angry White Male]

1978?



You're joking, right?

[Anonymous]

1978?



You're joking, right?

Yes, the modernizing industrial and agricultural reforms only began in 1978 under the late paramount leader Deng Xiao Ping.



You didn't know that?

[Harry]

1978?



You're joking, right?

Yes, the modernizing industrial and agricultural reforms only began in 1978 under the late paramount leader Deng Xiao Ping.



You didn't know that?

It's not quite that straightforward.



Google "the Great Divergence".  



Historically, until the 18th century, China has been up there with the rest of them, but it missed the industrial revolution.  There were a whole range of reasons for this, economic, political, cultural, and other.



Fashionista is referring to "the Four Modernizations".  Zhou Enlai first drafted the principles of this in the early 1960s, but Mao's Cultural Revolution got in the way.  As Fashionista says. it finally got underway in 1978.

[Anonymous]

1978?



You're joking, right?

Yes, the modernizing industrial and agricultural reforms only began in 1978 under the late paramount leader Deng Xiao Ping.



You didn't know that?

It's not quite that straightforward.



Google "the Great Divergence".  



Historically, until the 18th century, China has been up there with the rest of them, but it missed the industrial revolution.  There were a whole range of reasons for this, economic, political, cultural, and other.



Fashionista is referring to "the Four Modernizations".  Zhou Enlai first drafted the principles of this in the early 1960s, but Mao's Cultural Revolution got in the way.  As Fashionista says. it finally got underway in 1978.

Fash doesn't need a lesson on Chinese history from you. She is well aware of the century  of humiliation with bullshit like the unequal treaties and the second opium war. She also knows China has been a leader in trade, science and innovation before that.



The fact is China embraced Neo Luddism under Mao's reign of terror.The race back  to modernity didn't begin until 1978. The following year saw reforms of the legal system and in late 1980 the Gang of Four were put on  trial.