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Wurzl@lemmy.zip to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

China’s population, expressed in units of Canadas

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China’s population, expressed in units of Canadas

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Wurzl@lemmy.zip to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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  • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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    Needs a Canada for scale

    • huppakee@lemmy.world
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      China: 9,389,687 square kilometers
      Canada: 9,984,670 square kilometers

      via https://truesize.net/

      • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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        Nice. Thank you

      • Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        According to truesize.net, China is 9,389,687 km²

        • huppakee@lemmy.world
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          Thanks. I first put the words there, and while doing that I thought a visual would be nice - so didn’t copy paste the size from truesize. Edited the comment, not sure which number is more correct but I don’t really care honestly.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    Oops All Canadas!

    • nanometer1625@thelemmy.club
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      I’m not hearing an apology…

      Update: Ah, apparently “Oops all X!” Is a meme based on the “Oops all berries!” Cap’n Crunch cereal.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        yep, you got it :)

    • PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
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      Shhh. Stop telling everyone our plan.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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        o no pls dont threten me with ur universal health care and social safety nets :waves hands:

        :)

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    You only did 1 China population, but there are 2 China.

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      Canadian Teipei has roughly half a Canada.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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        Canadian Teipei

        Quebec is arguably the closest Canada has to a Taiwan. lol

    • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Taiwan is roughly 3/4 of a canada

    • thenextguy@sh.itjust.works
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      China is here, Mr. Burton.

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    Ooops Taiwan is blank. Brace for impact

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    Fun fact: There are more Canadas in this picture than there are Canada’s in the world.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      Not as fun fact: You got the apostrophe usage right the first time and then proceeded to fuck it up. D: D: D:¹


      ¹ extra emoticons should be read as “/s”, or more precisely “/silly”…

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      Another fun fact: This isn’t what China actually looks like, even though we all think it’s made from many Canada’s.

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    Anything but metric…wait…

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      Clearly a metric fuckton of Canadas. :)

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        North American Conservatives are trying to fuck a ton of Canadians

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          I notice you didn’t say “a ton of North American Conservatives” because that would be like, two or three of them. ;-)

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      Anything but metric… Canada Edition?

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    Now all of Canada knows you are here

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      The beacon is lit! Toronto calls for aid!

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    How many Alaskas is that?

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    Is China going to join the EU too?

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      If Canada gets 1 EU associate memership, would China get ~35 given the quantity of Canada inside China?

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    Man my Risk board game is super out of date

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    My favourite one is the Canada inside Canada one.

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    I need a Canada for scale.

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    deleted by creator

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    Now do racial diversity

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      do indigenous ethnic groups count or no? china and India together have a few hundred indigenous populations that didn’t get genocided, and a few hundred that did (most before 1900 for stupid reasons). Canada succeeded at almost all of theirs, the west is really good at getting rid of things they don’t want, China tries to construct systems that please them without giving them real power, which is also evil but definitely beats ‘killing the indian and saving the man’

      it would take several classes to understand diversity in China because of their government system and long history but this English wiki article is a great start

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China

      I’ve always found that it’s better to just focus on what people are likely to become invested in rather than expecting them to read everything. this is a much shorter article, read this one instead:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_in_China

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        They don’t count when China’s actively driving them out, no.

        I grew up with them, here, in Canada, because of what China has done to the non-Han people.

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          i don’t want to do a whataboutism, so I’ll let that go. but if you ever become curious about Chinese ethnic minorities they are my hyperfixation so DM me at that time

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            Chinese ethnic minorities have taught me all about their cultures, in person, here, in Canada, in my high school classrooms. When I asked them why they came to Canada from China, one of them, Lubin, drew a big pie chart, and put a tiny sliver in the chart. She said the tiny sliver is her, and everything else is Han.

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        i hope this sends someone down a Kyrgyzstan rabbit hole, it would be a great honor to enrich you with this knowledge

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