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Why did China stagnate, unlike Europe or Japan which were able to modernize and invent new and better ways of living?
Why were the Chinese so hated in America during the 19th century /his/?
Typical fear of foreign influence trope which led to the entire treasure fleet getting scuttled.
>>1288213
It wasn't just the chinese. It was anyone who wasn't Anglo-Saxon.
>>1288213
Oh shit I'm sorry I forgot to answer your original question. Anyways China was an isolationist nation that rejected foreign concepts and had been for a few centuries and that's one of the main reasons that they feel behind Europe and other Asian countries.
>>1288213
Because they were looked different and acted alien enough as that whites wanted distance?
>>1288198
They got MONGOL'd and it caused them be super conservative and reactionary
>>1288236
>Cochine
that's not Chinks
>>1288198
Because their culture cracks down on any sense of individuality reducing the ways in which you can innovate by challenging the existing ways of doing things.
Mill's got it figured out, OP.
>>1288297
they look chinky to me.
i wouldn't say badass though, unless you were impressed by 4'8 skinny manlets.
>>1288198
We are tianzi and shit no need of barbarian tech.
>>1288198
Why?:
First isolationism, then the many Opium wars. Unequal treaties, not being the lid that kept Russia out of the Pacific like Japan, late European colonization, late imperial Japanese colonization backed by European colonization, European banking treaties designed to weaken and create dependence, late civil wars resulting from the above...etc
>>1288198
The Mongols.
>>1288198
You try changing the way of life of your subjects while ruling one of the most populous nations on earth. Its easier to make social and economic changes with smaller populations than it is a nation with a huge population where the goal of the day is to keep the peace and maintain a sense of cohesion and harmony. Just look at the United States compared to other western nations. Its easier to make changes with a 40-60 million population than it is to one with 300 million
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>>1288222
back to /pol/ with you
>>1288198
That chinaman should have checked the chain before opening the chest.
>>1288213
cause they took er jeeeeerbss!
>>1289615
What the fuck are you on about?
Most of them don't even name race, and some of them even claim they fell behind because of xenophobia, the opposite of /pol/.
>>1289630
Its meme tier history/sociology that belongs in /pol/
>>1288222
No.
The treasure fleet was scuttled because it was pretty fucking expensive to maintain a fleet of ships that huge only to collect the annual tribute.
>>1288354
t. /pol/
>>1288198
The Ming, then the Qing, fucked the economy right up. Production stagnated while the population continues to increase.
OP didnt you listen to black science man? Chinese legalism wasnt conducive to new ideas
