He isn't attacking the Asian races. Clearly, by his argument, Asians who grow up in America or Europe should be just as capable at designing beautiful things as

He isn't attacking the Asian races. Clearly, by his argument, Asians who grow up in America or Europe should be just as capable at designing beautiful things as the "natives" are. His whole point, to me, is that there are cultural differences between the Asian and European countries, no surprise there, and those differences have influenced design decisions. For all I know, the Japanese and Chinese abhor European / American designed products, such as the iPod, because it doesn't have enough features and lacks seven different equalizers.