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Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt by krapp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:47PM (#18821303)
To be fair, it's a Hollywood movie based on a book written by a Chinese author based on his childhood in Singapore. So not entirely without legitimate cultural insight.
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Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt by jhwang5 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:52PM (#18821333)
It's written for the western audience. And I think you just made my point for me. At best it reflects the rich Chinese people's attitude - since when is HN rampant with small sample generalizations?
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Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt by krapp on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:07PM (#18821396)
> since when is HN rampant with small sample generalizations?

Since always. I can't count the number of generalizations I've seen which begin with "in my experience," for which the poster's experience likely includes a sample of one at least, or half a dozen at most.

And to be perfectly fair, it seems to happen a lot when China or Japan come up.

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Re:China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt by jhwang5 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:35PM (#18821517)
>And to be perfectly fair, it seems to happen a lot when China or Japan come up.

Right, I wonder why.

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