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Old Posted May 13, 2007, 7:29 AM
firstcranialnerve firstcranialnerve is offline
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These buildings divert from underlying poverty

^ Depends what you mean by vibrant. Anyone who has visited asia knows that most of the continent is like 100 years in the past. The people are extremely poor by American standards. These buildings present a westernized, respectable face to cities that are full of poor delapidated buildings and millions of hungry factory workers. The reason many of these buildings can be constructed so easily there is because they don't pay the workers anywhere near what american workers would get to do the same thing. Think, Japan is the most affluent nation in asia because it opened up early, mostly because of American influence. Are they even mentioned building a real building? No, only the fictional X-Seed have we discussed.

If you think millions of hungry factory workers and delapidated buildings with a few supertall buildings isolated on the other side of the city means a great city, then by all means, enjoy!
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