Fortunately, after knowing each other for so many years, he has experienced this situation many times and has become accustomed to it. It is not as embarrassing as it was at the beginning.

Already know how to deal with it.

"You are still so prejudiced against South Vietnam."

"I'm being blunt."

Zhang Lingjun took a deep breath and said: "Okay, let's assume that according to what you said, there are differences between people in advanced areas and backward areas.

"However, advanced areas and backward areas have always been an objective comparison. It cannot be said that they only exist between countries. Within any country, we can see obvious gaps in development between regions.

"If you think of South Vietnam as a small world, the river of time of industry and modernization is also flowing, and there are advanced and backward places in Hanoi and Dien Bien.

"In this way, South Vietnam, an even more uncivilized place, shouldn't these two places be divided into slightly uncivilized and very uncivilized, and the people in them also have to be distinguished?

"Even within Dien Bien, there are aristocratic districts like 'Upper City District' and 'Xiacheng District' where garbage is collected. And there are communities and urban villages in Xiacheng District. And then we can divide them into civilized communities and uncivilized communities? Even among them

Households can continue to be subdivided.

"The same applies to places more developed than South Vietnam.

"In addition, we all know that social development or economy is fluid and constantly changing. A certain area's current advanced status does not mean that it will always be advanced, and its current backwardness does not mean that it will always be backward. Its position may change at any time.
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"In South Vietnam, Hanoi is certainly more developed at the moment, but Dien Bien is not destined to be dead for the rest of its life, just in case the former industry disappears due to some accident, and the latter digs out oil.

"According to your statement, just because of this, the people of Dien Bien suddenly became more civilized, and the people of Hanoi suddenly changed from being human to not being human.

"If Dien Bien relocates urban villages because they are rich, then who are the nobler households than the poor people in developed foreign areas?"

Old John shook his head, as if he became serious because of Zhang Lingjun's words, and was more serious than before, "No, we don't seem to be on the same channel. I think you mean to connect developed areas with richer people..."

"No..."

Zhang Lingjun quickly denied it and explained, "What I mean is that the development of a region is the increase in per capita GDP, modern industrialization and technological innovation, the improvement of modern social systems, and the improvement of residents' living standards. Money is just a by-product.

"We talk about money just because it is more intuitive as a general equivalent of society. The cause of society is constantly developing, and the result is money.

"For example, people in South Vietnam are now richer than before. At the same time, we can see that modern industrialization in South Vietnam is booming, and various modern and advanced social systems are constantly being improved.

"At the same time, the trend visible to the naked eye is still upward and developing in a good direction.

"The whole world is constantly moving forward on the river of development.

"This is an objective reality that cannot be denied.

"So we can be sure that the reason why South Vietnam has different development compared with people in other regions has more to do with environmental geography, rather than the advantages and disadvantages of people in different regions."

Following Zhang Lingjun's words, Old John's expression gradually froze. This was something he had always been unwilling to admit or see. South Vietnam was actually growing stronger. Just thinking about it felt like a hair falling into his heart.

It makes people feel awkward and can’t help but scratch their hearts.

But it is just uncomfortable. What Zhang Lingjun said did not subvert his logic and can still be explained by his logic.

He took a deep breath and said: "Not to mention that South Vietnam's current so-called development is just a fortress on the sand. It has no foundation at all and is all fake.

"The current development is just based on catching up and learning from existing things.

"This has nothing to do with real civilization. The important thing about civilization is innovation and constant moving forward. It is not catching up or plagiarizing by feeling the stones, but piloting and creating. You said that the most important thing about development is technology and industrial development, but the technology industry is not

It doesn’t just exist out of thin air, because what can give birth to it and make it grow?”

"Because..."

Before Zhang Lingjun finished speaking, he was excitedly interrupted by Old John, "Because of a more advanced cultural system, only a free and enlightened culture and civilization can create miracles like science.

"The reason why I use the relatively abstract concept of country to divide noble and vulgar, civilized and barbaric is because the civilization and spiritual genes of different countries are different."

Looking at Old John with his fists in front of him, as if he was declaring some kind of truth.

Zhang Lingjun suddenly felt a headache again.

He reached out and pressed his forehead. What made him even more troubled was that the guy in front of him was becoming more and more paranoid and seemed to be possessed.

"Racism...reverse racism, brother, if you said it was discrimination just now, it is already a personal attack. This is all Tomb Sect stuff that was outdated many years ago.

"I think you can read a book called Guns, Germs and Steel.

"Then it mentioned the cause and effect of different human development speeds in different regions, which is quite interesting."

Old John smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, some of my principles were realized from this..."

"Are you sure you didn't read the wrong book?"

Zhang Lingjun opened his eyes wide, as if he felt that his soul had been hit by some kind of impact, and he felt a sense of fear that his own small knowledge was about to be subverted, "I remember that the core of this book seems to be anti-racism, right? It is to eliminate this thing of yours

Written with a thought.”

Old John nodded, "That book was indeed written for anti-racism, but I am not a racist. Don't have this misunderstanding. What kind of person do you think I am? I am a normal person.

"I was just stating the fact that this was Jared Diamond's idea of ​​writing that book.

"As he said, he wrote this book not to prove that the results of the development of current society are destiny and inevitable, not to defend the dominant group in today's society, not to explain through history, but to explain history.

It is a summary of human development in the past, with the aim of breaking this logical chain.

"I also think based on this.

"The book says that the reason why humans of different continents and different races have different development speeds, and the reason why some places can enter industrialization earlier, is due to the environment, not biology...

"The reason why Eurasia entered agricultural society earlier, realized division of labor and cooperation earlier, and started the industrial revolution is because there are more foods and animals that can be cultivated and domesticated.

"This is a summary of past history.

"Then many people, many people who have read the book, think that with the industrialization and globalization wave sweeping across all human beings on the earth, extremely frequent exchanges and flows have brought everyone into a parallel, unified nature.
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