>>801175>the mainland chinese beggars and homeless on the streets of the municipal and urban environmentsI saw very little homeless people in China and the other countries of the Sinosphere I've visited.
They do exist, I remember seeing a few in Guilin and Busan, and I came across a building looking like a homeless shelter in Beijing, but there are way less homeless people in the streets than in the West, nothing comparable to Paris or Bologna for example.
I would say it's in part due to stronger family ties, a remain of Confucianism, parents tend to allow their children to remain at home longer if they have trouble getting a stable job and place to live, etc.
There is a dark undertone to this though: when people become homeless in South Korea, they overwhelmingly tend to commit suicide, it's extremely shameful to be homeless, that's why there are so few of them. Some people also work in rundown workshops in exchange for a place to live and to make pennies in China I believe too.
>But no, more tired, performative, bitching about Japan (i.e. "no shit Sherlock"). I think political communities tend to caricaturize and emphasize differences a lot between East Asian countries.
Liberals will tell you Japan is perfect, clean, well-managed, etc. and then tell you China is a horrible dictatorship harvesting organs from Uyghurs.
Communists will tell you China is perfect, prosperous, well-managed, etc. then tell you Japan and South Korea are fascist hellholes on the verge of collapse.
The truth from my experience is that daily life in the big cities of East Asia is remarkably similar, Shanghai or Chongqing are not so different from Seoul, which itself is similar to Tokyo apparently.
It's just ideology distorting what is actually going on in these places. People act like it's the Cold War, but as long as Japan or South Korea doesn't talk about Taiwan, China is willing to closely collaborate with them, the South Korean president met Xi not too long ago. K-Pop is huge in China too for example. When the Japanese PM said the defense of Taiwan was strategic for Japan, China cancelled most flights to Japan during the Chinese New Year, specifically because a ton of Chinese tourists go to Japan during this period of year.
Everything is politicized because the world is going to shit, people seek clear black-and-white answers, chase the new happening, want to grab your attention for views, but the reality is much more boring: we live in a globalized capitalist world that is uniform in a lot of ways.