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@ground_news

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Another great, informative video. Thanks for helping share our mission! For those who want to be better informed and spot media bias, check out the link in the description.

@TheGreenViewer456

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Hello, we’re going to Japan again tomorrow. If you don’t want to go, please don’t tag along, I hate that, please I just needed to see Japan again.

@AirForceChmtrails

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Italy and Sicily...

@chrisdude119

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fantastic work, do a similar video like this for greece too!

@darrenfrench7366

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Canada

Been to Japan twice. It is a beautiful country with very friendly people.

@General.Knowledge

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Nice! Which areas did you visit?

@archstanton6102

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@@General.Knowledge Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nara - all stunning places. Was in Portugal 3 weeks ago, looking at houses near Tomar.

@tfcshortsnon-official7283

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2 nukes visited japan once

@indrauchiha5354

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@@tfcshortsnon-official7283 and one visited the us

@southernbismarck5067

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I’ve been to Tokyo only for 6 hours from what I remember it was extremely crowded, a surprisingly high number of people there spoke English, they seem to treat Americans the same as Japanese very nicely.

Small typo, the name of the prefecture next to Tokyo with a high minimum wage is kanagawa not kaganawa

Japan is an amazing, unique, and interesting place. And I love looking at all sorts of maps of Japan.

1:44 i love how japan prefectures flag are so Unique And the country flag is so simple

I lived in Japan and I miss it so much. I use to just walk endlessly just looking around and enjoying such a old and different culture

@alukuhito

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Go back.

I adore Japan and the Japanese cultures.

@General.Knowledge

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They're very interesting!

@Clinton221087

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@@General.Knowledge How about a video about the Ainu people?

@jamesjeager129

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Same too

A note on the map of "Buddhist households in Japan" -- since it went by fast. It represents data from exactly 100 years ago (1922), and also only represents one sect of one form of Buddhism (the Jodo Shinshu "denomination") -- which is the biggest, but certainly not all the Buddhists.

Live here since 4 years, amazing country

If you love maps, have you ever heard of the franco-german show "le dessous des cartes" (litterally "the under maps" or something like that) it explain geopolitical situations through maps

@EbilPaschka

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great show!!

@General.Knowledge

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I didn't know about it, I'll check it out!

@bibobeuba

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Yes, it's a great show! In Germany (it is shown on franco-german tv channel "ARTE") it is called "Mit offenen Karten" ("with open maps"). It shows a lot what's going on in the world with fascinating details!

On the minimum wage map at 5:00+ it would be great to add a comment that it's payment PER HOUR (I assume) and convert to USD for anyone's easy understanding.

I can't make this up, some of these flags remind me so much of the thousands of companies that originated here, and these flags capture that concept. Love it!

Amazing country... Can't wait to go again...

Love what you say at the start :) Japan is wonderful! Not as into it as I used to be but still love it! Especially Okinawa!

Hello from Japan! Thank you sooo much for this very very detailed explanation!

Great video as always.

Thanks for the great video! from a Japanese🇯🇵 Just wanted to point out, at 5:12 it’s Kanagawa not Kaganawa (I know, it’s difficult), and based on the map, Nara should be light green, not orange, because Nara is located just south east to Osaka. BTW, the minimum wage has increased from this October, bringing Osaka above ¥1000, while Kochi (along with 9 prefectures) is now ¥853.

Thanks for your work!

@General.Knowledge

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Thank you for watching!

My Dream destination! Thanks for the great video!

Good video. I think if you travel throughout Japan as I have, you would also point out that most of Japan seems to be a 10 to 20 km wide coastal plain with cities, rice and other agriculture that quickly stops at steep mountains. The interior of Honshu is very mountainous. I peddled my son's bicycle from Shibata City 5 km from the coast near Niigata, through the city, suburbs but soon through rice paddies, then at about 8 km up the valley narrowe, the road became steeper and then at 20 km into the mountains. At 35 km I was deep into the mountains, completely alone and where I noticed signs that bears had clawed and gnawed at a wooden sign. Macaques were about 5 km before this point. Quality of life is interesting. I was at student presentation where two girls suggested Japan should be more like Disneyland. This puzzled me because there is no place on the planet more like Disneyland than Japan. It's a wonderful place. But then my son pointed out, "You're not working 70 hour weeks." And that's the problem of Japan. To me it explains the low birthrate: Why bother bringing children into a world where they will be overworked and bored (while the economy is still in a 30 year stagnation)?

started watching your vids, they're very interesting and nice!

This was a great video! You should make a map comparison video on North vs South Korea if you haven’t already.

Love Japan from Turkiye 🇹🇷❤️🇯🇵

@josueveguilla9069

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Same

@JaKingScomez

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Japan bottom tier

@ChrisFan890

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Both of your names looks very spanish

@archstanton6102

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@@JaKingScomez begone troll

@JaKingScomez

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@@archstanton6102 accept my opinion

Awesome!! :)

Very educational, thank you

@General.Knowledge

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Thanks!

I moved to Japan almost 10 years ago now, and I really love living here. Also, I live by a Japanese military base, which I feel like is something that many people don't think about being around with all the focus on the American bases.

Another great, informative video. Thanks for helping share our mission! For those who want to be better informed and spot media bias, check out the link in the description.

都道府県旗のビデオも素晴らしかったですが、今回も本当によくまとめられていると思いました。HDRで飾られた美しい日本像より、自分はこういう側面を、外国の皆さんにはもっと知ってほしいと思っています。日本は地域ごとに自然、観光や文化、歴史、美味しい食べ物も様々なので、機会があれば是非そのようなことも調べてみてください😊

I didn't realize this video was posted a few minutes ago

nice video

Great video, and thank you for making a video about our country! One mistake I'd like to correct: 5:06 you mentioned "Kaganawa", which I believe you misread "Kanagawa" (神奈川)- a prefecture south of Tokyo, characterized by port cities in the east and hot springs in the west.

I love your work, and as a teacher of Japanese I will be using this video in classes in the future because it's awesome! Just one small thing I noticed. At 1:16 when you say "In Okinawa..." the arrow on the screen is pointing at Sado Island, not Okinawa. I'm not sure if that's an accident from an earlier comment when you were talking about military bases but it threw me the first time I watched. Maybe changing where the arrow points prior to 1:16 so people don't think you've confused Sado Island for Okinawa Island might help?

@General.Knowledge

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Thank you!

Oooo - can you do one on Canada (if you haven't already?). I think adding mining (ores, precious metals, oil, gems), forestry, and other natural resource acquisition and overlaying it with territorial control (and maps of First Nations' areas). Also transport - north to south vs east to west, and population /vs/ cost of living /vs/ education /vs/ wealth.

It might be accent or language mix, but in Taiheiyo, the "h" is not silent. "Hei" would be similar to "hey" in English.

As a foreigner who currently lives in Japan, these maps are very fascinating. Makes you want to root for the prefecture where you live to to better.

thanks

Your pronunciation of city names is very good :))

6:35 No, they had a problem with a Tsunami. That's a bit different then "having problems with nuclear power plants". If people don't want to power itself with coal, then nuclear is the only real option (if one takes climate protection seriously of course). What will not happen is that Japan goes dark like North Korea.

@alukuhito

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The tsunami problem IS a nuclear problem. Derp.

I'd appreciate one about Italy.

4s in, had to pause the video and rewatch an oldy but goldy for the bazillionth time.

The land of the rising sun, would love to visit some day! Please make a video about Portugal, the first europeans to set foot in Japan. Great channel, by the way!

@cantrait7311

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The Japanese kicked the Portuguese out and invited the Dutch instead

@FSch.

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@@cantrait7311 no

@cantrait7311

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@@FSch. Yes

Today I briefly heard coworkers discussing how the layout of Paterson, NJ is modeled after Washington, DC… both by Alexander Hamilton.. both in a spoke-style. Then I looked into it (only a little) and learned the the map of DC is full of the golden ratio and circles. Interesting. Thought you might like to look into it!

@quanbrooklynkid7776

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That's cool

@General.Knowledge

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I didn't know this! Very interesting

LOVE Maps

middle left flag the one that has the little crescent moon looks very familiar.... 1:53

Can you please do one of these for Australia if you haven't???

I'm Japanese! Some I knew, some I didn't before, it's interesting for me! Thanks!!

Putting a red border around the thumbnail is a mistake. It looks like the progress bar at the bottom of a video already seen. When I saw this, I didn't remember reading it, I looked more closely and the red bar went all the way across, but then I saw it was a relatively new video. Then I noticed the red goes up the sides too. In years to come, people are just going to assume they already saw it long ago. And at 7:07, I think yellow does not mean "operating". It means "doesn't meat new standards" but is not decommissioned (they may restart some day). The nine red ones are operating (or temporarily offline for maintenance). The seven blue ones have passed the new standards and could start up soon. Three green ones are under construction. 24 are out.

gotta love the bill wurtz reference

6:36 - I’m guessing an overlay showing nuclear plant locations vs pop. density would reveal an inverse relationship 😅

Are the Taiheiyo belt cities connected in terms of transportation, so you could feasibly get from one end to the other as if it was one continuous city?

@sirlancegeo

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The Shinkansen or bullet train line connected Tokyo to Osaka and then all the way west through the Taiheiyo belt cities but it was way after they had been connected by local and express train lines. There are now train lines connecting all the main islands though maybe not running as frequently.

@wombatpandaa9774

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@@sirlancegeo wow, that's really cool! If I'm ever in Japan for a while, I might try to take a train through the entire belt!

i wonder if you would like to visit Switzerland in one of your superb videos?

i love the bill wurtz reference at the begining

I lived in Korea and Japan but felt Korea was more mountainous. however Korea's are old fold not new fold so are smaller. Korea doesn't have large planes like Japan does. In Tokyo to our can't see any mountains but in Korea there is nowhere you can't see mountains

@chihayaxx2922

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東京の中でも山の見えるところはありますよ。 有名な所だと高尾山や御岳山なんかは初心者向けの登山コースで知られている山です😊

Please could you do one of these videos for Ireland, Denmark, Norway, France, and the Netherlands.

maybe it would be good to make a video like this for some regions, for example Scandinavia, Central Asia or Central america. I think that continents hide nuances, and some smaller countries are too small to tell us much. that's why I think that more small countries would portray the balance of power between them!

The 2n high income prefecture is Kanagawa not Kaganawa. ;)

*b e a u t i f u l*

Wait! Are you also the one who made the famous history of Japan video in youtube?

Japan is Love, Japan is Life

Woohoo! I'm one of the 90,072 foreigners in Osaka!

5:06 "Kanagawa" is correct. Not Kaganawa :)

3'31 Grniinn news?

Not exactly a mistake, more of an inconsistency. Some of the maps included the Northern Territories (as they are called by Japan) in them, some didn't - specifically, the four islands (plus surrounding islets, EEZ, etc.) that are currently disputed with Russia. I imagine information for them is simply not included in sources that come from outside Japan, or where the information is not reasonably accessible?

Where's that link you said you were going to put in the description?

The Bill Wurtz reference put a smile in my face

New Zealand next?

do one on Germany pls

The map in thumbnail in the right is wrong I used to live in Sendai and its in Honshu island north of tokyo kanto prefecture not in the s0uthern kyoshu islands as shown in the thumbnail.☺️

@JconsultUS

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There is a Sendai in Kagoshima Pref. though it's official name is Satsumasendai

I have Foreign Family In Southern Japan

The Bill Wurtz credit at the beginning was to this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/f5xprrttfd2XZdI.html

There is also a city named kochi in india

What exactly is "clutter" in the societal clusters? The riff raff?

Should mention their North-South power grid too

@alukuhito

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No. That's boring. Think of a better topic.

Olá! Arigato gozaimasu!

Your first map is incorrect. Camp Zama, a US army installation is right outside of Tokyo. Mt Fuji is also visible from post

Correction: The map you showed at 7:27 is NOT 'precentage of buddhist households'. It's 'percentage of buddhist households affiliated with Jodo Shinshu', which is more like 'percentage of christians affiliated with the methodist church.'

@nagayamagames

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Also, buddhism and shintoism are NOT mutually exclusive in Japan. Complicated history there.

@idifjrivhjf5198

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dont imply an example with "which is more like" buddhism ≠ christianity loL

0:04 or more like through watching Bill Wurtz's video.

I hope the nuclear plants are well clear of the ocean and none of them in an earth quake region(reference,Pacific Ring of Fire)

@sirlancegeo

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The whole island of Japan sits on the earthquake region.

@FSch.

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Japan's nuclear power plants experience many earthquakes every year, but they have never been destroyed by an earthquake. After the Fukushima nuclear power plant was hit by the tsunami, an explosion occurred due to the destruction of the emergency power supply facility.

Hello!

@Mii.2.0

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Hello!

@xavierperez4160

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Hello!

@fantastyxd471

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Hope everyone of y'all are having a good day

@Mii.2.0

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@@fantastyxd471 YOU RUINED IT!

@fantastyxd471

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@@Mii.2.0 guess you're not having a good day now

Daaaamn what a reference to Bill wurtz

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6:28 There are no visas for that.

Anime, Manga, H-anime, H-manga, Godzilla, Gamera, samurai, ninjas, Shinobi, etc. That's what I think when I hear Japan.

@MenezarianDuck

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H Godzilla, H Gamera, H samurai, H ninjas, H Shinobi...

@tallspoon0224

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Thank you for providing stereotypes to a Japanese😂 As a Japanese guy, I imagine the earthquakes, the paper-based culture (less advanced IT tech here), the long working time, for the negative sides. For the positive sides, I imagine cleanness, affordable foods, and durable cars.

@owata100

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Another Japanese here and I just can’t deny that. 😅

@madisonthecat88

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You just had to emphasize the H.

@_genova6230

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does the H stand for honorable ?

We could learn a lot from Japan, a society that is at peace with itself.

@cantrait7311

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A society who Spreads their degenerate porn all over the world and the biggest exporters of Child pornography in the world , only made illegal in 2014 because of international pressure

@aib0160

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@@cantrait7311 That's something I'm not aware of but is it really any worse than the US and the likes of Twitter providing a platform for it? Do they have drag queens perverting the minds of children in school? Its far more law abiding and united than pretty much all western nations.

@cantrait7311

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@@aib0160 Well child pornography is illegal in the US. After 40 years of relentless inrternational pressure the Japanese finally outlawed the possession of child pornography in 2014!! Prior to that they were the biggest exporters of child porn in the world! Lolicon still exists, it is a form of simulated child pornography and very common in Japan and generally so socially normalized that you can purchase media with them on the street. Japanese people are sickly obsessed with engaging in sex acts with children and have a long and documented history with it. Research Bushido Samurai code

@aib0160

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@@cantrait7311 I have to say I wasn't aware of this issue in Japan. I don't know why it took so long to outlaw, perhaps the high moral code of the Japanese was a natural deterrent to the practice? If we're to start moralising over these things though the practice has been illegal in the west forever but it doesn't stop it happening. The Japanese don't use abortion as a means of contraception as is permitted in many nations. Nobody is perfect, but Japan does appear to be free of many of the social ills affecting western culture be it religious tensions, culture wars, illicit drug taking and crime in general is much lower.

@cantrait7311

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@@aib0160 Nobody is perfect but child pornography being legal until 2014 and today still spread in Japan in various forms is Absolutely disgusting much worse in my books than what you mention in your post. Abortion is also legal in Japan and used frequently good luck getting numbers on that issue. Japanese crime rate is low but against women its high and not reported since women are still considered inferior and submissive to men. Most arr afraid to come forward and with good reason. Women in the west are less submissive to men and have more freedom

Early!

So ALL Japan's nuclear power plants are on the coast, not just Fukushima?

The Philippines 🇵🇭

5:40 Talks about long life expectancy in Japan, shows a drawing of an old man in traditional Chinese garb. It’s hella funny to see how little most of us westerners know about Asian cultures. Haha

@idifjrivhjf5198

Жыл бұрын

china = japan as far as cultural influences are concerned

@calitaliarepublic6753

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@@idifjrivhjf5198 ROFL. No they are not that similar. The old man in the video is wearing a hat typical of the Qing Dynasty, when Chinese headwear was derived from the traditional garb of the ruling Manchu people from northeast China. The Qing Dynasty ruled China from 1636 to 1912, starting hundreds of years after China lost strong influence over Japan, and even 33 years after the Tokugawa shogunate implemented the _sakoku_ isolationist foreign policy that limited Japanese exchange with the outside world from 1603 to 1868. The only people who wore Qing Dynasty hats in Japan before modern cosplay was invented were visiting Chinese merchants and diplomats. But more importantly… laws mandating that headwear were abolished more than a century ago. There are only a handful of people alive today who were even born when that hat was still common in China, never mind Japan. Why not just use a modern picture of a recognizable elderly Japanese person, like the abdicated Emperor? But Western KZreadrs see “Asians” and think they’re all the same, so they need to make characters look “more Asian”. It’s just as bad as making all the flagless Polandballs for past Asian countries colored yellow…

japnese or broken knees

it's Kanagawa not Kaganawa btw

Kanagawa

Portugese Johnny Harris

@General.Knowledge

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Maybe one day! Johny's videos are very professional

@Mr.Pineapple6927

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@@General.Knowledge Keep up the high quality videos, I really enjoy them.

I think the minimum wage data is too old. Now every where need to be at least 850yen

So, outside of YHWHism (Christian/Muslim/Jewish, worshippers of YHWH aka Jehova aka Allah), religion isn’t so much an identity thing. Most people in Japan have Buddhist altars in their homes *and* go to Shinto shrines for New Years (and whenever they feel like praying for something), *and* copy Anglican culture from Hollywood movies for things like weddings, *and* have Buddhist cremations when they die and have monuments in Buddhist ceremonies. You can’t really say that person *is* a Buddhist the way you can say that someone *is* a Christian or Jew or Muslim - e.g. a YHWHist believes that there is no other god but YHWH, that anything else that claims divinity is either fake or a devil, and that anything supernatural that doesn’t originate with YHWH originates with Satan. There is no room for coexistence with them, so that’s their identity. There are tons of different belief systems under the umbrella of Buddhism. Most incorporated gods that were already in places, to a far greater extent than YHWHists did. There are also Buddhist thought paths that don’t involve the supernatural at all. You can “be” a Buddhist atheist. Basically, “being a Buddhist” is an external construct, unless you’re talking about becoming a monk. I mean, celebrating Jesus of Nazareth’s birthday around the Winter Solstice is also an externally imposed construct. It’s your culture (and thanks to Hollywood, it’s now the culture of Japan, too), but it doesn’t come from anything Jesus or YHWH did or said in any source. So just because some Western Buddhists talk about Buddhism in Christian terms, that doesn’t mean it’s not an external construct.

Why is the background music is so Chinese?😮

Japan IS Beautiful

Smash or Pass? (Japan Edition)

kaganawa⏩kanagawa😂☺

US legal territory in Japan, US bases.

Fun Fact: Japan is literally 10 years ahead of the rest of the World.

@Mii.2.0

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So is South Korea, and maybe China.

@stiegelzeine2186

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Nah they’re only 10 years ahead of Americans just like every 1st world country

@indayamulembe

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@@Mii.2.0 not china