So many of our assumptions and the corresponding institutions in our international system were developed, just to take one example, at a time when the majority of people in China were living were rural farmers or peasants living in poverty. Today, A middle class city dweller in a Chinese city arguably lives a more sophisticated, technologically sophisticated, day to day life than a middle class American city dweller. We are just in a different world and it is partly, but not only because of what has happened politically in the United States. (18:55–19:06)
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Asserts that middle-class Chinese city dwellers may have a more technologically advanced lifestyle than their American counterparts.
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