tbf the reason you’ve never heard of it is for the same reason you were taught next to nothing about geography, history, and other cultures. If you don’t know anything about anything then it’s so easy to convince you that we’re the good guys and all the wars are just and necessary
You’re right that Americans are under-educated in those areas. However, China has something like a hundred “big cities” (let’s say roughly Philadelphia-sized). Only a real geography buff would be able to identify all of them! If Americans knew just ten of them, that would be great.
I’m kind of a geography buff and i still can’t even name ten. Same for India. And i’m not American but our education also severely neglected to teach us basically anything about the world outside of Europe and the US. The most we learned about the rest of the world was countries and their capitals. And history was even worse. It went Ancient Egypt > Greeks > Romans > Charlemagne > Holy Roman Empire > French revolution > Napoleon > Bismarck/German unification > World War > Weimar Germany > World War again > German reunification.
OK, here’s a couple more that are famous and great for touristic reasons of history /culture /good food /great landscape /etc
Xi’an (one of the ancient capitals of China, starting point of the traditional and new Silk Road), Guilin (every single time they show China in cartoon, with giant mountains and winding rivers, they’re basically showing here), Shenzhen (the new hyper modern high tech city), Guangzhou (old English name was Canton, as in Cantonese food), Suzhou and Hangzhou (historically famed for being chill and beautiful, lakes and canals etc), Hainandao (Chinese version of Hawaii), Nanjing (another ancient capital of China, lots of culture), Harbin (lots of Russian architecture here, and a FANTASTIC and huge ice sculpture show every year)
tbf the reason you’ve never heard of it is for the same reason you were taught next to nothing about geography, history, and other cultures. If you don’t know anything about anything then it’s so easy to convince you that we’re the good guys and all the wars are just and necessary
You’re right that Americans are under-educated in those areas. However, China has something like a hundred “big cities” (let’s say roughly Philadelphia-sized). Only a real geography buff would be able to identify all of them! If Americans knew just ten of them, that would be great.
If you don’t know most of the different provinces of China and India, then you don’t know anything about the world
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I’m kind of a geography buff and i still can’t even name ten. Same for India. And i’m not American but our education also severely neglected to teach us basically anything about the world outside of Europe and the US. The most we learned about the rest of the world was countries and their capitals. And history was even worse. It went Ancient Egypt > Greeks > Romans > Charlemagne > Holy Roman Empire > French revolution > Napoleon > Bismarck/German unification > World War > Weimar Germany > World War again > German reunification.
I’ve got six, what other cities should I know about?
Shanghai, Beijing, Ürümqi, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Taishan
OK, here’s a couple more that are famous and great for touristic reasons of history /culture /good food /great landscape /etc
Xi’an (one of the ancient capitals of China, starting point of the traditional and new Silk Road), Guilin (every single time they show China in cartoon, with giant mountains and winding rivers, they’re basically showing here), Shenzhen (the new hyper modern high tech city), Guangzhou (old English name was Canton, as in Cantonese food), Suzhou and Hangzhou (historically famed for being chill and beautiful, lakes and canals etc), Hainandao (Chinese version of Hawaii), Nanjing (another ancient capital of China, lots of culture), Harbin (lots of Russian architecture here, and a FANTASTIC and huge ice sculpture show every year)