@__abba__@Smirkley The chart clearly indicates that these are four provinces of China, not China itself. It represents these four provinces of China, not China. 😓 Clearly, some people really have poor reading comprehension.
@markj121@yungmulababylol@Smirkley These are four provinces, with a total population of over 200 million, which is more than most countries in the world.
@MauriceHoughto2@tamirolognood@sciencegirl It wasn't the Africans, Indians, or Arabs who opposed abolition, it was the Western colonial slave drivers in those lands who fought to keep the system alive. The West is hypocritical: it brings catastrophe to other civilizations, then crowns itself the godfather of human rights.
@MauriceHoughto2@tamirolognood@sciencegirl The west also led to the collapse of numerous ancient civilizations in the America's, as well as in Oceania and Africa, while plundering countless cultural relics. These were not "scientific achievement," but rather a profound destruction of human civilization.
@MauriceHoughto2@tamirolognood@sciencegirl When Britain was looting Chinese artifacts, international cultural heritage laws didn't even exist yet, so of course the West can claim whatever they did was 'legal.' Things are different now. I hope the BM eventually returns these relics to their rightful countries, step by step
@MauriceHoughto2@tamirolognood@sciencegirl If one of Britain’s own national treasures were stolen one day, ended up in your so-called 'open market,' and was bought by China, would you still remain this calm and indifferent?
@MauriceHoughto2@tamirolognood@sciencegirl You should look into the news about stolen and missing artifacts at the British Museum over the years. Their rogue employees are no different from the relic traffickers in China's past—they couldn't care less about what these items mean to a nation; they only care about the money
@MauriceHoughto2@tamirolognood@sciencegirl Well, in that case, since Chinese museums also want to become world-class institutions, could the British Museum sell 100,000 British artifacts to China?
@byaahhu@AnitaX2002@mr_james_c Yes, they are all in China, and I am grateful that Chinese museums have preserved them so well. It breaks my heart every time I see Chinese artifacts in BM without even a glass case for protection. You clearly don’t take the cultural heritage of other civilizations seriously.
@MauriceHoughto2@tamirolognood@sciencegirl It was essentially a case of "robbing a burning house"—taking advantage of the Chinese people’s desperate need for money and their lack of awareness regarding heritage preservation at that time.