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And it's well known all Chinese do it steal, right? At least have the decency to start the comment with "I'm not trying to be racist/xenophobic/a-hole/etc." bef
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And it's well known all Chinese do it steal, right? At least have the decency to start the comment with "I'm not trying to be racist/xenophobic/a-hole/etc." before being one.
- chrisfinazzo 8y agoNot trying to be, but their pattern of behavior suggests otherwise. More often than not, the approach they take is, 'Can we do this? Great! Worry about ethics/legality later - if at all. For whatever reason, culturally they see no problem with this. (See also the recent uproar over gene editing embryos) Beyond that, I also question (again) if the Chinese are smart and/or evil enough to do this on their own, knowing they will likely eventually get caught if something does come out.
- close04 8y agoI'm not trying to insult you but you just generically applied to 1.4 billion people a conclusion based on a data set so small even you can make use of. No matter what country or a people you belong to someone can find something about them that will "make you proud" and which surely applies because I already have one data point showing it. And just because you were curious how empires are built but not enough to actually go beyond bigotry, here's an example: [0]. Spoiler alert, it's stealing from the current leaders. [0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-espionage-started-americas-cotton-revolution-180967608/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-esp...