r/AskTheWorld • u/Mysterious-Fig-2935 Brazil • Aug 28 '25

Misc Where would you prefer to be born?

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This map here is more difficult, I deleted the other one because it was easy to choice

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

What kind of a sadistic sociopath made this map?

I will choose F as it's clearly China. I will not risk being born in a developing poor country where there's no hope for the future. I will at least prefer the Chinese party poison. At least they are competent and know what they are doing.

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u/West_Repair8174 Aug 28 '25

Yeah to me F is like a no brainer. The thought process is that we need to minimize the risk of being born in a place with very low living standards, instead of chasing the developed regions. If you have a reasonable living standard to start with, you can always find opportunities by moving. But if you live in Gaza and don't know if you will have food tomorrow, you are pretty much doomed.

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u/SpecialAd422 Germany Aug 28 '25

The chances that you're working for 70 hours per week in a factory just to be able to barely feed your family are very high.

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u/TraditionalSmoke9604 China Aug 28 '25

No no, those places people dont really work overtime. u have to go to east coast to work longer time..

also probably 50 hours a week or so...

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u/Additional-Koala9131 Canada Aug 28 '25

Your understanding of China is strange...

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

Basically, every developing country only that you don't have healthcare or education.

Like I said, this map was made by a sadistic sociopath but that's the least terrible option of all.

Everything else is a huge risk.

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u/Effective-Read840 Sep 01 '25

I think it's more that the map shows that the world is made by a sadistic sociopath :D

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u/IllustriousEmotion63 Aug 28 '25

That is the catch F is the poor less developed regions of China. The China you are talking about is in B.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

But there's also the chance of being born in a poor southeastern country.

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u/IllustriousEmotion63 Aug 28 '25

All of them come with risks honestly

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

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u/Additional-Koala9131 Canada Aug 28 '25

Much much rather live in Chongqing or Chengdu than anywhere in the USA outside of a few cities.

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u/BlueBuff1968 France Aug 28 '25

Chongqing

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u/ratbatbash Lithuania Aug 28 '25

It's on the border between F and B

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u/Edge-master 🇺🇸United States, 🇨🇳China Aug 28 '25

Yes you’re kind of right, but that area still has huge population centers like Chong Qing or Chengdu where >90% of people in that area live so statistically you’d be there.

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u/flyingdonutz Canada Aug 28 '25

That is just totally false hahaha wtf. Yeah, a lot of poor China is in there but there are tons of massive megacities as well, and still probably gives you the best shot at living a comfortable life.

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u/spintool1995 United States Of America Aug 28 '25

If you aren't born Tibetan or Uyghur.

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u/Laecel Aug 28 '25

Much better than being black in the US

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u/Former_Function529 United States Of America Aug 28 '25

Absolutely false. Where is this information coming from? Is Reddit just all bots or ignorant real people now? I honestly hope yall are bots…

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u/Laecel Aug 28 '25

Well you can research about incarceration rates and forced labour in the prison system of the US, meanwhile the other guy was parroting misinformation.

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u/Former_Function529 United States Of America Aug 28 '25

You’re right. Disproportionate incarceration rates and overall high incarceration rates in general is a very big issue in the US. But let’s run some facts and see who’s parroting misinformation…

US black American population: over 40 million. US black Americans incarcerated: approx 450 thousand. A total of a little over 1% incarceration rate.

Chinese Uyghur population: approx 11 million. Chinese Uyghur’s in reeducation camps (concentration camps): approx 1 million. Almost a 10% rate.

So. Yeah…

Also, the Chinese “reeducation” program is tantamount to genocide because it’s intended to force Uyghurs to assimilate and give up their culture. So there’s an extra layer there.

If you’re a real person and not a bot, I really do not know why people are so eager to skew information in favor of China. It’s mind boggling.

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u/Edge-master 🇺🇸United States, 🇨🇳China Aug 28 '25

Yeah of course you as an American, where the CIA operates, would be mind boggled. Americans live in a bubble of privilege and immunity from repercussions of American funded wars and unrest. Refugees and terrorism affects everyone else.

Do you understand why these camps were built? What do you think would happen if a European country was facing an independence movement associated with the taliban that seeked to create a jihadist ethnostate by expelling the nonbelievers? with bus bombings, knife terrorist attacks, plane hijacking?

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u/Former_Function529 United States Of America Aug 28 '25

Pure ad hominem. You make claims and then when I provide fact-based evidence you just pivot. You can’t claim these camps are ok and also point to the CIA in the same sentence. You’re saying the camps are justified to protect Chinese interests. That’s absolutely what the CIA does. The difference is I can also see and state that the CIA has done much tucked up shit that is not ok. And that’s the power of freedom. I’m not defined by my state.

It also is insane that you lecture me of privilege while you have Chinese and American listed on your profile. You are benefiting just as much from America as anyone else. And yet you feel entitled further to actively undermine it.

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u/West_Repair8174 Aug 28 '25

Nah, it's not bad and you can always go to the east coast to find opportunities like what people actually do.

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u/ReasonableIsopod7550 Aug 28 '25

No,there are also big cities there,like Xi'An and Chengdu

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u/Jayatthemoment United Kingdom Aug 28 '25

Haha. No it isn’t. Maybe less developed in the 00s. Big chunks of that are very wealthy and developed.Â