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by mazerackham 11y ago
Human rights are not some global constant, but something that evolves from culture & economics. China has experienced unprecedented growth in the past 30 years, never before seen in history. Hopefully its concepts of human rights will
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by mazerackham 11y ago
I think you're forgetting the most important part of the equation: China is still a developing country. In fact 50 years ago, it was one of the poorest countries in the world. As amazing as it's total GDP output is (by some meas
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by mazerackham 11y ago
There's no point in arguing when you talk about historical matters as simply as a fight between your friends. Opium wars are a great example of Imperialism (which is not a good thing, although you seem to try very hard to twist and de
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by mazerackham 11y ago
it sounds like you're trying to blame China for the Opium War. Fact is, if there was a war right now, fought to force trade of a highly addictive drug on another country, people wouldn't describe it as an opportunity for that cou
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by mazerackham 11y ago
This weak justification for imperialism is dangerous for our future generations. The subjugation and exploitation of technologically weaker peoples for PROFIT, usually under the guise of some self-righteous religion, mandated by god, is so
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by mazerackham 11y ago
I don't really know much of Indian culture, but I doubt it's as simple as a "yes sir" from your "typical Indian worker". That sounds like a gross oversimplification. Again, I reiterate that while cultural effe
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by mazerackham 11y ago
1. As all the controversy shows, he wasn't "clearly in the wrong". Neither was Eric Gardner, that guy who got choked out, nor all the other cases, the names of whom I started to forget because the reporting became so common
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by mazerackham 11y ago
I can see why your girlfriend would hate it so much, she's coming from Canadian, one of the highest standards of living in the world. You can't expect to go to China, and find that same level of comfort. It was a third world cou
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Chin up, I don't think it's genetic. This stereotype of being shy, socially awkward losers is beaten into Americans (asian or not) from a very early age. Just look at all of our media. Asians are either totally absent, or comp
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Lol, I believe that cops DEFINITELY over-arrest blacks. After Ferguson and a huge WAVE of black people dying unfairly at the hands of police officers, you can read a lot of articles online where highly educated black men (ivy league) write
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by mazerackham 11y ago
There's no immensely cruel and systematic oppression of Asians/Indians over centuries. While things are fair for Asians yet, I'm talking specifically about SLAVERY. Then after that Jim Crowe law and other terrible forms of
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by mazerackham 11y ago
I think one of the main reasons for keeping affirmative action deals specifically with the systematic oppression and marginalization of Black people in America (that as Ferguson and other black related police deaths show, is STILL happening
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by mazerackham 11y ago
I definitely don't think this is true, and I'm Asian as well. I think the parent has a better hypothesis, it's the higher bar for immigration. I bet the demographics of Asian immigrants is way higher educated than the avera
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by mazerackham 11y ago
I had a similar situation at work recently. I've always been a high performer and natural leader. People love talking with me, they trust me with their problems, and I do the best I can to help them out. I lead from behind, and try
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by mazerackham 11y ago
China has plenty of "original thought[s]". I bet India does too. I always find it amazing that in the U.S. we tend to judge other countries as being "unoriginal" or "lacking creativity", simply because we are
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Haha have you been to China? It's really not as bad as you are imagining. The controls on internet access is not as extreme as portrayed in western media. I'm not sure where this mobility issue is coming from. If you're t
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Very interesting that you've actually experienced this first hand while doing research for a class. I find that the difference in reporting on the same subject matter can be so wildly different, and I find that so confusing. It'
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Do you have any sources to back up what you're saying, or is that your hypothesis? Also, from your tone it sounds like that is what you hope will happen. I hope that not to be the case.
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Not a secret to me. A great tragedy, and definitely a huge error on their record. However, what I said still stands: they lifted 500 million people out of poverty.
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by mazerackham 11y ago
You're right, China is only communist in name, not in practice for some time now. I emphasized the word only to point out how we treat anything associated with communism as something to be burned at the stake.
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by mazerackham 11y ago
I think you're right in your edit, the Community Party has only been in power for decades. Prior to that, China was in turmoil due to colonization and imperialism by the U.S., France, Britain, and other European states, as well as Jap
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Another big secret, is that the source of a lot of poverty being lifted is because of China. That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million pe
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by mazerackham 11y ago
so, are you implying that Chinese as a people are rude and lack civility? Because that's what your "contribution" to this discussion implies. Not just a few bad eggs, but an entire 1+ billion people. If I were generous, I m
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Try to understand for a second why that might be. Is it because Chinese people are inherently rude? I hope you don't answer yes to that. Everything happens for a reason, and just because it violates your fragile ideals of grace and
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by mazerackham 11y ago
Yes really. You just don't understand what it's like to live in such a heavily populated country
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by mazerackham 11y ago
You're still stuck in your narrow view of politeness. The concept of politeness is not a constant, but a variable that changes throughout various cultures.
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by mazerackham 12y ago
Seriously, is autolayout actually used by a lot of people? I tried doing something semi-complex a few weeks back and I spent hours fighting with it. Then I spent 10 minutes writing 10 lines of code and it worked. When you finally grok it,
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by mazerackham 12y ago
>does look like a homepage of a product of years of advanced research it looks likes a homepage of a product of years of advanced research, and a homepage which was made years ago. trendy and pretty matter a lot for first impressions, an
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by mazerackham 12y ago
less is more. From a new and interested user's perspective, having a flood of links is not helpful
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by mazerackham 12y ago
wow this is amazing. Branding is so important, and Haskell having a page that looks as good as Scala's would be huge

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