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I know the Chinese government has made a concerted effort to steal IP. Still I also find the descriptions of Chinese culture, and Asian culture in general, that
by kingkawn 7y ago
I know the Chinese government has made a concerted effort to steal IP. Still I also find the descriptions of Chinese culture, and Asian culture in general, that demean it as imitative and incapable of creative thought not as rational descriptions of the world, but instead bizarre holdovers of old racist ideologies repackaged in more palatable contemporary business-lingo.
- KoftaBob 7y agoWhat other Asian countries in the present day are frequently accused of stealing IP? I don't get how you're arriving at it being a broadly Asian thing, when it's quite specifically a Chinese phenomenon. Conflating China to mean "all Asians" is pretty racist in and of itself.
- zachguo 7y agohttps://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/69996/index.htm https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv... Just a replay of history with the country name replaced.
- kingkawn 7y agoThere are broad stereotypes about Asians and conformity that are at play in the parent comments assumptions about what China’s weaknesses are