25 salty downvotes.
South Africa and the old yellow Metrorail trains make New York look like paradise. The new blue Metrorail trains look nice though. We also have the Gautrain which is nice, but is basically a rich people only train service.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Incidentally, home ownership in China is around 90% today http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-05/15/content_15295765.htm
What are the red circle and arrow supposed to be drawing attention to?
Ok nobody panic but the Iroquoian and Algonquian script has been removed from the signage in the New York photo. I don’t want to jump to any conclusions or anything but maybe we should keep an eye on that area just to be sure there’s no cultural erasure happening. I don’t want to be dropping the big G word or anything rash like that but I haven’t seen any evidence of the indigenous population practicing their local customs and culture in the area, except in obviously-staged displays.
