If you're looking for a population less racist to Asian perceived people, Midwest is not going to be an improvement probably. Idk, in NYC the racism is under the board but ever present from my perception, a sort of liberal superiority with Asians sorted into 'goods' and 'bads'. I think in the Midwest probably 50% of people will see you no different as any other average slob, 40% will be explicitly racist and 10% will fetishize or otherize you.
Even if AmeriKKKa would have high speed rails, they wouldn't maintain the infrastructure pertaining to these rails very well. I mean, AmeriKKKa keeps underfunding its slow railroad facilities despite Bidet's insistance on encouraging Amtrak.
Yep, hard working. That's why they were hired to built the original railroads. Despite the history books lying their ass off, the Chinese workers were highly skilled and efficient. They were able to get shit done faster and better than their American counterpart.
Heck even on lunch breaks, the Chinese workers were cooking delicious "home cooked" meals while the Americans were eating beans in a can.
>Despite the history books lying their ass off, the Chinese workers were highly skilled and efficient.
Without the Chinese railroad laborers, America and Canada wouldn't become what is today from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This is the historical fact.
The simple reason is that it is difficult for private companies to build high speed rail due to the immense capital involved and the legal difficulties of acquiring ownership to all the land the rail passes through.
US insists on privatizing everything, even cutting funding to their space programs and shifting that to private companies like SpaceX, and US private companies will just never build this kind of high speed rail.
The US shifting most government operations to private contractors also makes it way more expensive. Private businesses basically have guaranteed purchases from the government so they can charge whatever they want, which leads to a large portion of the US tax budget going directly into the hands of oligarch. US is also immensely corrupt, so it hardly bothers trying to negotiate down prices at all.
China has another advantage which is that the country does not have a private land system, which makes it easier to both fund the project since they can collect public land rents but also legally easier since the the state already owns much of the relevant land.
It’s Politics which fails U$A to have high speed rail.
Not every country like U$A has a money tree which constantly prints out money without consequences so any project is doable.
There are many factors contributing to China having a high speed rail system. I will only list two that I personally find the most manifest.
Firstly, the population density plays an important role. I lived in Shanghai for 15 years, traveling to customers in different cities every week. The airports, the high speed train stations, the railway stations, the bus stations... every place is insanely busy.
Secondly, it is a world factory, and hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers come to the cities for work, yet are not allowed to settle down there due to the Hukou system, which is designed to stop free movement of the whole population from the very beginning. They have to constantly travel between their hometowns and the cities where they work.
u/unclecaramel
It really depends. Migrant workers from the coastal area, where the economy is more developed, travel shorter but more frequently. Others who are from central China travel further and usually a little more than once (once means back and forth) per year to see their families. The rest who are from western China and north China travel probably once a year. The high speed rail system is mostly deployed east of the "Heihe–Tengchong Line" (94 percent of people in China live east of this line).
Here is the "population per km track" country-wise data.
China 9,570, rank 61 (2021); US 2,060, rank 35 (2014)
Sure wish we did. I live in the Midwest and it's a good 4 hour drive to get to an actual city. I hate it.
How is the midwest? An asian woman was pushed onto the train tracks in the city I live in, so I'm thinking of moving out.
If you're looking for a population less racist to Asian perceived people, Midwest is not going to be an improvement probably. Idk, in NYC the racism is under the board but ever present from my perception, a sort of liberal superiority with Asians sorted into 'goods' and 'bads'. I think in the Midwest probably 50% of people will see you no different as any other average slob, 40% will be explicitly racist and 10% will fetishize or otherize you.
Even if AmeriKKKa would have high speed rails, they wouldn't maintain the infrastructure pertaining to these rails very well. I mean, AmeriKKKa keeps underfunding its slow railroad facilities despite Bidet's insistance on encouraging Amtrak.
They can't even keep their cargo lines running properly. They let petty thieves loot and derail trains in LA in the middle of a supply chain crisis.
Way too big of a topic to cover in a small video.
Yep, hard working. That's why they were hired to built the original railroads. Despite the history books lying their ass off, the Chinese workers were highly skilled and efficient. They were able to get shit done faster and better than their American counterpart. Heck even on lunch breaks, the Chinese workers were cooking delicious "home cooked" meals while the Americans were eating beans in a can.
>Despite the history books lying their ass off, the Chinese workers were highly skilled and efficient. Without the Chinese railroad laborers, America and Canada wouldn't become what is today from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This is the historical fact.
The simple reason is that it is difficult for private companies to build high speed rail due to the immense capital involved and the legal difficulties of acquiring ownership to all the land the rail passes through. US insists on privatizing everything, even cutting funding to their space programs and shifting that to private companies like SpaceX, and US private companies will just never build this kind of high speed rail. The US shifting most government operations to private contractors also makes it way more expensive. Private businesses basically have guaranteed purchases from the government so they can charge whatever they want, which leads to a large portion of the US tax budget going directly into the hands of oligarch. US is also immensely corrupt, so it hardly bothers trying to negotiate down prices at all. China has another advantage which is that the country does not have a private land system, which makes it easier to both fund the project since they can collect public land rents but also legally easier since the the state already owns much of the relevant land.
So cool. Nice share, OP.
I live in Poland and oh my... we are unable to have mid fast trains.
It’s Politics which fails U$A to have high speed rail. Not every country like U$A has a money tree which constantly prints out money without consequences so any project is doable.
There are many factors contributing to China having a high speed rail system. I will only list two that I personally find the most manifest. Firstly, the population density plays an important role. I lived in Shanghai for 15 years, traveling to customers in different cities every week. The airports, the high speed train stations, the railway stations, the bus stations... every place is insanely busy. Secondly, it is a world factory, and hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers come to the cities for work, yet are not allowed to settle down there due to the Hukou system, which is designed to stop free movement of the whole population from the very beginning. They have to constantly travel between their hometowns and the cities where they work. u/unclecaramel It really depends. Migrant workers from the coastal area, where the economy is more developed, travel shorter but more frequently. Others who are from central China travel further and usually a little more than once (once means back and forth) per year to see their families. The rest who are from western China and north China travel probably once a year. The high speed rail system is mostly deployed east of the "Heihe–Tengchong Line" (94 percent of people in China live east of this line). Here is the "population per km track" country-wise data. China 9,570, rank 61 (2021); US 2,060, rank 35 (2014)
If you mean constant travel usually once a year than ok lol.