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There are good reasons to want America to succeed that have nothing to do with nationalism. In particular, China has a very poor record on human rights, and is
by thinkpad20 12y ago
There are good reasons to want America to succeed that have nothing to do with nationalism. In particular, China has a very poor record on human rights, and is the main supporter of North Korea. This doesn't make the company bad, but it's not an irrelevant fact.
- azth 12y agoPerhaps this would be a wake up call for all the politicians driving the US down in terms of IT progress. Or, perhaps all they care about is money and it won't change a thing.
- rhizome 12y agoCheering for a country based upon an image of that country is the very definition of nationalism.
- DominikR 12y agoAnd the US has better records on human rights with all the lawful torturing and countless wars going on? I'm pretty sure that China has caused less deaths or generally harm to innocents than the US has in the last 20 years.
- auston 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_sovereignty_debate#Human_rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_sovereignty_debate#Huma...
- visarga 12y ago>China has a very poor record on human rights Guantanamo
- army 12y agoReally? China's regular court system has even less transparency and integrity than the Guantanamo courts, let alone the regular U.S. court system. I'd have more chance of a fair trial at Guantanamo than in any court in China if the party authorities had decided that you were guilty. When China isn't a single-party authoritarian state, maybe then we can talk.
- rhizome 12y agoThe US is a single party state. The party's name is "capitalism."
- Myrmornis 12y agoAs sibling comments say, there is no way that America can attempt to occupy any sort of moral high ground on human rights given the events of the last decade. Where have you been?