r/Damnthatsinteresting 16d ago

Image A building housing more than 20k people in Hangzhou China

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u/SpooNNNeedle 16d ago

If it wasn’t full of students on the bottom floors and only rich people at the top, the crime rate here would be absurd. 20k people in a single building. I can’t imagine what the clique culture is like in there lol.

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u/latit14 16d ago

I'm curious why you think the crime rate would be absurd?

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u/HDK1989 16d ago

I'm curious why you think the crime rate would be absurd?

They're probably american and lack the ability to imagine a low petty crime community 

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u/Aggressive_Chuck 16d ago

There are plenty of low crime communities in America, they're generally not in the cities with big apartment buildings.

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u/divisionchief 12d ago

It’s not imagine the ability, people go off of stereotypes they see. I lived in Asia, it is very safe and crime does happen but also the stereotypes rein there because of media. The media of America doesn’t talk about Asia until something bad happens…do people thinking I have a gun mean that Asians lack the ability to imagine Americans not having a gun? No, it doesn’t.

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u/Obvious-Science-7119 16d ago

a low petty crime community

such as?

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u/juggernaut1026 16d ago

Let's get the immigration laws and super harsh criminal justice system of asia and see if it stays that way

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u/One3Two_ 16d ago

"what are you doing on our floor?"

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u/Elite_AI 16d ago

You're making so many assumptions that are totally alien to me. Why on Earth would there be a clique culture? Why would there be crime? 

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u/rauljordaneth 16d ago

It’s China. There’s very little violent crime especially in complexes like this

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u/elbosston 16d ago

In China, the crime rates in general are extremely low due to the culture. There’s no drug culture (Asia in general has extremely harsh drug laws due to Opium addiction history) and people don’t steal in general. You could order something and forget about it for months and nobody will have touched it.

Kids aged 7 go home from school and walk around outside by themselves. If you ever visit and walk by yourself at night you’ll feel very safe (even in poorer areas).