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dmix · 2016-11-28 · Original thread
> Same building, same street, same chained stores.

As Tyler Cowen said in Creative Destruction the cities, architecture, and culture may begin to merge and look the same but this modernization ultimately helps create a greater variation among individual people.

Subcultures still flourish they are just less regional and local. Our creativity is stimulated due to greater contact between the various global (and cross-China) cultures creating a greater variety of culture or an enhanced breadth of existing cultures. So it's not all bad, just different.

https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Globalization-Ch...

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