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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by girvo on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:00AM (#46273945)
That really downplays the turmoil China has gone through. It’s at least equal.
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by xandrius on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:17AM (#46275583)
China's external turmoil can be boxed within the 1800s and I don't think it included: 80+% of casualties, forced religious conversion, forced language conversion, wholesale destruction of books and culture, etc.
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by suddenlybananas on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:15AM (#46276442)
>China's external turmoil can be boxed within the 1800s

Yeah except for that time that Japan tried to conquer them while they were in a civil war.

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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by xandrius on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:30PM (#46282479)
True but do you really think, all summed up, they had it worse than LATAM?
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by suddenlybananas on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:16AM (#46286055)
Given that the worst of colonialism happened in 16th and 17th centuries and by the 1930s, China was in a worse position than much of Latin America (e.g. Argentina), I would say that they had a harder go of things more recently than Latin America.
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by girvo on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:55PM (#46282020)
No it really _really_ cannot be. Go read a history book.
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by xandrius on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:29PM (#46282460)
Graceful arguing right there.

If you feel like enlightening us how China fared worse than LATAM or you can avoid being all snarky like that.

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