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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by mechazawa on Friday April 13, 2018 @07:56AM (#16829091)
"Chinese Man" would've been better yeah. I had to read it a twice before realizing that it wasn't about a China-themed super hero.
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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by rahimnathwani on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:00AM (#16829124)
If the headline had read "Chinese man", I would have assumed the incident took place somewhere in the US.
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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by anonaccount0413 on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:45AM (#16831099)
If it did, then they would have just used "American."
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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by coldtea on Friday April 13, 2018 @08:33AM (#16829348)
Like Englishman, the eccentric Oxbridge schooled aristocrat who fights crime at nights?

We use *man for all kinds of ethnicities, Chinaman or China man is no different.

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Re:Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest susp... by anonaccount0413 on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:31AM (#16830922)
No, that hero would be called Englandman.
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