Nothing, but calling it a manchurian railway or Japanese people manchurian is a stretch
More resources, but is that anything to be proud of? Saudi Arabia is a rich country by that metric. I think of things in a typical laowai way. I don't even view myself as white. I think of myself as me. It's individualistic vs. collectivist thinking.
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I like Dongbei. In a way I love it. I miss it a lot. It's a got a warmth to it that Japan does not have. But as far as I can tell, it's quite different from Japan. In some ways Dongbei feels more like parts of America than Japan.
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I personally admit that Japan and Manchuria are sufficiently different. Japan lacks the fusion of multi-civilizations. As a Manchurian, I feel easily the chemistry among Mongol-Korean-Han-Russian cultures even within on city, say Harbin. But in Tokyo, I got easily bored by the
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An issue worth discussing. Many American white do think like that, but often they don't realize how their culture shapes their values and their community and collective institution protects them. That's exactly why the US institution is collapsing.
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Ironically, without the collective institutions, the American white identity will cease to exist. 100 years later nobody will think like you guys. I suspect the older generation of Americans have a stronger sense of community, religious unity, responsibility to the collective.
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