For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-credit systems

Re:For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-c... by vbtemp on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:34AM (#18996451)

This soft bigotry against Chinese culture is really tiring already. Chinese culture and people are all over the world: America, southeast Asia, singapore, and so many other places... To think that cheating and IP theft and scams is somehow part of Chinese culture or that these are virtues unqiue to these exotic orientals and we should drop our Western preconceptions is so unbelievably condescending... And how offensive to Chinese people, both in China and overseas, who earn their achievements though their honest and diligent labor, the kind of work we value here too.

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Re:For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-c... by teekert on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:46PM (#19008038)

A Thai person once told me they were raising a generation of copiers, when 1 person would start a karaoke bar, the street would be filled with them soon. I also heard stories of Chinese copying entire machines for manufacturers in the west and expecting support on them. I don't understand your reply I'm saying western culture may have strange standards, Or, different at least.

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Re:For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-c... by lnsru on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:49AM (#18996512)

I would say, IP theft and cheating is a communist thing. I was born in Soviet Union. Since the ruling class were the simple workers and not engineers there is no motivation for these to do world class things. The don’t get fame, credits and wealth. So the government must get all advanced technology by stealing. I case of Eastern Germany everything was copied from the West: stolen,reverse engineered and released as domestic product couple years later. Whole industry was 1-2 generations behind free world.

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Re:For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-c... by mrslave on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:59AM (#18996560)

The out-of-print book East Minus West Equals Zero makes a case for exactly this.

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Re:For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-c... by vbtemp on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:54AM (#18996534)

Exactly, that's why Chinese culture in places like US, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan,HK, etc etc is generally associated with upper middle class professionalism and honorable success. It was decades communism and the associated violence and very intentional destruction of interpersonal trust that breeds a lot of what we see in mainland China today.

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