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Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? by dronesoul on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:26AM (#27192973)
to be even more correct, china isn't one culture or one ethnicity. it covers a huge area, and especially before modern times, it was composed of a lot of different cultures and ethnicities, with a shitload of different languages and customs. CCP and other earlier powers (Emperors?) just brought them all, or large chunks, under a common flag.
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Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? by yakubin on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:46AM (#27193068)
Most importantly, a common writing system, common to a huge area. One that mathematicians successfully took inspiration from and repeated the success of universality at an even greater scale.
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Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? by rhizome on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:30PM (#27202671)
Think bigger. There is cultural knowledge going back further than any particular political or economic system. China has seen those come and go within its own borders, too.
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