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Originally Posted by shad0wfax
This has nothing to do with the genetics of the Chinese people or their race. It has everything to do with the way the state and the employers in China operate.
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Very true -- and it's a great example of the difference between racism and culturalism.
A country can only turn around centuries upon centuries of massively low labor expectations and sale-able goods output, hyper-elitist (read: imperial) consumerism, a near absolute lack per capita of skilled manufacturing labor, and generations upon generations of groupthink so quickly.
That China has been isolationist for nearly its entire history -- seriously, it makes North Korea look like the Branch Davidians compared to the entire North American continent -- is perhaps the biggest double-edged economic sword in history. Its population is incredibly malleable, but it's loathe to develop anything that originates beyond itself. It prefers to copy -- and apply its own traditions to the copying.