If you want to compare Trump's wall idea to the Great Wall of China we can start w how the nickname for the Great Wall is "China's Sorrow"
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And how the legends about it are legends about the First Emperor's narcissism and brutality
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And how it only got built by the First Emperor drafting his people as slave labor and is haunted by thousands of wailing ghosts
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(These legends are exaggerated bc the Wall was never actually as big a deal as people made it out to be, which is typical for walls)
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(China SHOULD brag about the Grand Canal more than the Great Wall, but things that connect ppl are less impressive than things that divide)
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The Grand Canal is amazing - China's economy for generations was dictated by the fact that they had east-west rivers but no north-south ones
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So they went ahead and built an artificial north-south river
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In US history one striking thing is that the North loved building canals - later, railroads and highways - and the South was against it
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The main thing the South was mad about was slavery, always, but they were ALMOST as mad abt the "theft" of private funds to build canals
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In the end it's all one thing - the South's ideal was isolated self-sufficient fiefdoms (powered by slave labor) and hated public works
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They lost the war bc of this shit. Jeff Davis wanted to work on a railroad to link the CSA states and the state governments wouldn't have it
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