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Hey, that's good. I mean, if those countries are "developing countries", not just "underdeveloped countries". So we avoid the usual tone where "developing" actu
by ptaipale 11y ago
Hey, that's good. I mean, if those countries are "developing countries", not just "underdeveloped countries". So we avoid the usual tone where "developing" actually means "not developed and never going to develop".
70 years ago hardly anyone was thinking that they'd drive a car made by a Japanese company. 30 years ago hardly anyone was thinking they'd do their daily correspondence through a smartphone that was manufactured in China. 20 years from now hardly anyone will think twice about flying in a plane whose regular maintenance is done in Mexico, China, Romania, Estonia or whatever -- and possibly even designed and made in China. (After all, 25 years ago not that many were thinking that the British Airways plane they flew was actually maintained by cheaper labour from Finland, and today we fly in planes made in Brazil, which many also call a "developing country".).
But this article... cheap xenophobic fearmongering.