Quote:
Originally Posted by Centropolis
tokyo is probably too high and should at least swap with los angeles.
|
I think insularity doesn't help Tokyo to be deemed as influential as it actually is.
Being stuck on an island is still some kind of peculiar situation. We've been realizing in my country because Corsica... Guys out there, stuck on their island sometimes show some odd attitudes, not always exactly standard to our own continental habits.
Then the same would go to London, somehow.
Tokyo is nonetheless pretty huge in pop culture. Like that graphical manga thing of theirs, most famously. But also electronics, robotics and stuff. It's just like the largest metropolis in the world.
Paris owes its fame and wealth only to the ancient French monarchy and to the violent Jacobins that won the fight against the Girondins during the French Revolution.
The Jacobins wanted to enforce equality all over territories. They were obsessed with the concept of equality and uniform development. So they centralized all powers on the capital city, to annihilate any feeling of rivalry between other cities.
The Girondins were basically much softer, and advocated a system like a federal republic. Had they prevailed, France would be pretty much like Germany, Switzerland or Italy. Power would actually be more equally distributed over France's regions.
I'm a Girondin. I think it's better justice. Paris is too big and far too exhausting compared to the rest of this country.