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MunchingLemon t1_iu9yxpz wrote

Reply to comment by okcrumpet in Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century. by filosoful

So confidently incorrect, China did not have a unified political institution before the revolution it was famously an extremely fractured country run by different warlords

Edit: absolutely classic Reddit moment, I have studied Chinese History (not arm chair YouTube history) this is how misinformation spreads lol

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YaAbsolyutnoNikto t1_iu9zs7l wrote

Yes and no. The entire history of china is about unifying and breaking apart.

They have been unified 1 million times already.

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MunchingLemon t1_iu9zyuy wrote

Yes I know that, but that is not what the original post I was responding to was saying

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Words_Are_Hrad t1_iuaiww0 wrote

>These places had unified political institutions going back thousands of years

That is, in fact, exactly what the person you responded to was saying. You just chose to take a knee jerk interpretation and assume that's what they meant.

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Zandrick t1_iub77qs wrote

That first comment is saying that China had a unified political institution for thousands of years, the other guy corrected by saying it was fractured, then the other other guy says it fractured and unified a number of times.

None of you agree on any of it.

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MunchingLemon t1_iuaj3bq wrote

That is literally not what the original post said or means

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Truth_is_Liberal t1_iua600r wrote

While Chinese culture has never been as monolithic as it is today, they did still have common cultural traditions stretching back thousands of years. Africa is much more disparate - there are usually dozens of major cultures in every single nation, and most spread across borders of neighboring nations. It's a mess, quite literally by design.

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MunchingLemon t1_iuajrg0 wrote

Traditions are not the same as political institutions, but other than that I agree

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GreatArchitect t1_iuc9b3p wrote

Lol, imagine being ignorant to the historically socio-cultural diversity of China.

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SiCur t1_iuakxmi wrote

Would you expect any different? The worst thing you can do on Reddit is discuss the things you’ve studied. Its like going to a 7-11 and hearing some people arguing about politics by the slurpee machine. Let’s say you teach political science at Harvard … do you engage in the conversation or say hell no and walk away? Likely the latter.

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Catfulu t1_iuajv1f wrote

>China did not have a unified political institution before the revolution

>I have studied Chinese History

Tells me you didn't study Chinese history without telling me you didn't study Chinese history.

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