• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I think in many people’s heads China is this cheap backwater third world country.

    While there are problems over there such as tofu dregs, their production is very modern. But the Western world sees China through their tofu dregs.

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      2 hours ago

      Yep, they all imagine China as a black & white photo of a man carrying two buckets of water on an stick up from a muddy river with one of those conical straw hats and a begrieved look on his face and think “yep, those people make all the cheap plastic crap at Walmart, suckers”

      Their mental image is like 50-60 years behind reality