No True Scotstree
The wokes won’t tell you, but this is what a “tree” looks like in Chyna
Love this episode
“I can’t wait to see that play”
Proud to live in America, where we have untamed wilds in the middle of urban areas
I live in a suburban/rural area and one of the many things that sucks about it is that what few trees there are get chopped down to build houses for people who can’t afford them
I was literally in that Shanghai district a week ago and can confirm there are lots of trees there. The amount of cognitive dissonance on western social media is off the charts lmao.
most americans have never seen a real fruit or vegetable.
most americans have never seen real grass
when we see grass we immediately see red and start reaching for the lawnmower
I hate lawns so much
so do americans, that’s why they keep cutting them
They would grow them higher if the lawns were burger
in the US, all citizens are required to plant a rectangle of useless grass outside their housing unit. then they need to trim the grass to a certain height, like a military hairstyle. failure to trim the mandatory grass rectangle will be noticed by the housing area spy organization and you will be fined and publically humiliated
we do smoke it tho
(thats a weed [street name for the drug Marijuana] joke. im a big weed head. legalize bob marley!!!)
The original thread is like a racist version of Telephone for rednote users.
I’ve seen a lot of travel posts from Chinese netizens remarking at the enormous size of American old growth redwoods. Often, Chinese commenters will say something like “there’s no big trees like this left in China because they’ve all been cut down by the ancestors” or something to that effect.
To denigrate a nation for not having enormous old growth trees because it has been continuously populated for millennia, but using that opportunity to compliment your own country that gets to show off these trees because your ancestors genocided the original inhabitants of the land is a uniquely Western flavor of bigotree
there’s no big trees like this left in China because they’ve all been cut down by the ancestors
This is true for a lot of the rest of the world too. Much of Europe had all the old growth cut, most of the eastern US. Pretty much anywhere with lots of people that get cold in the winter have suffered from deforestation
Yeah, look at the UK, lol. They got rid of ALL THE TREES ages ago.
Also redwoods used to spread much further up and down the coast, but colonizers cut a lot of them down and uncontrolled fires (largely caused by the colonizers) got the rest. A lot of the forests outside of the parks/wilderness areas are just tree farms anyway. Massive monoculture “forests” that only exist to be clear-cut.
The only reason the US has any old growth forests at all is people scrambling to protect them from the capitalists over the last 150 years or so and/or the land being nearly inaccessible to heavy machinery.
The worst part is the logging industry is horribly inefficient and designed to maximize short term profits. They’d be better off long-term using more sustainable approaches, but of course that won’t happen under capitalism.
Not me partly quitting school because I learned what I was studying was basically a 1 in a 10000 chance of getting a federal government job, or picking which trees get sold to be toilet paper (while working hand in hand with the federal gov to deforest “sustainably”)
bigotree
Most Chinese have never seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Most Chinese have never seen C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
It’s very hard to see anything in China with the glare from the red sun
You have to be racist to be this dumb
By that logic nobody on the east coast has ever seen a real tree because the fucking capitalists destroyed all the forests
honestly I kind of unironically believe this. not just for the east coast or whatever but most people have not seen nature, ever
The modern environmentalism movement in the US started when people realized that the last old growth in America (California’s Redwoods) was about to be cut down. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that nobody’s ever seen “nature”, but they definitely haven’t seen what the indigenous people and first couple generations of settlers got to see.
There’s some debate about the level of land management done by native Americans as well. The forests of New England weren’t perfectly suited for deer and berries naturally, it required regular controlled (and sometimes uncontrolled) burns by the local population. America’s a big place though, and the degree of environmental change varies by location.
Closest you can probably get in the continental US is hiking in the Rocky Mountains which I would highly recommend.
Being hours away from anyone else without cell service is really refreshing.
What losers! I bet they haven’t seen an authentic school shooting, either.
Since 2021, Shanghai has increased its total parkland area by over 2,500 hectares, raising its per capita green space from 8.5 to 9.5 square meters, the bureau said.
Over the next five years, Shanghai aims to build over 500 additional parks and increase its per capita green space by another square meter, according to bureau official Guan Qunfei.
When im in a saying the dumbest thing possible competition and an American enters
Who cares!
Actual question: have most Chinese seen real burger?
McDonald’s operates in China but I bet they have to put communism in the burgers
It’s true, every tree in China is surrounded by giant posters of Mao Zedong on every side.
i’ve heard people tell stories that relatives of them were in china and never saw birds in public, because people would hunt and eat them, it’s not only the americans who belief this kinda stuff
Not just America, I’ve had to tell people in Australia that Chinese people do not hunt down every bird they see to eat them like mindless brutes.
Europe too
I can’t see how the OOP is impressed by the greenery of the countryside, how fucked is America to be impressed by this?
you can go to fucking google maps and see they have trees throughout the city. Dare i say, more than an american one would usually have. I went down a street downtown recently and one stretch had a bunch of taller trees and it really stood out.
