Chinese attitudes to blacks

[Islandman]

Ok cool. Yes for China small percentages translates to hugh numbers, tens of millions of people.

Imagine if we could get them hooked on the Jamaican culture like the Japanese, what a hugh market that would be.

[MdmeX]

nutten nuh strange bout dat... directly from mi chinese friend in college... she couldn't take me to her house because i was too black for her father... to be dark skinned meant you were a peasant... you worked in the fields in the sun... it was funny listening to her explain...

chiney people in china nuh like blacks period... the younger generation is less prejudiced... i suppose that's everywhere...

Mek dem gweh. Me went to China and me nuh LIKE them either. So the feeling is MUTUAL! Wid dem ugly, crooked teeth (kiss teeth)

[Jawge]

I can understand their dislike for farming; if one just goes back fifteen years the sterotypical image oof chinese was the basket hat, bending in rice fields or carrying load slung on two sides of a beam. the same could be applied to India.

I's with western technology that we see a major transform of asia (particularly the US) China seems to benefit the most and I in turn get to buy a Bluray player for under two hundred bucks.

With the above mentality I don't China coming out as a creative nation (dazzling the world with and modern science with new inventions) instead one that will always copy and mass produce. It may look nice now but as standard of living improves the ugly side will emerge.

Good for China let them continue with a racial bias; it will only hurt them in the long run. Pity that they are hiding their true history (from their children); if it wasn't so they would have a deep respect for Blacks and Africans.

[Muadib]

lol !!

Like what ? dem cyaan jump ?

[Muadib]

What about Smithville ?

[Mosiah]

With the above mentality I don't China coming out as a creative nation (dazzling the world with and modern science with new inventions) instead one that will always copy and mass produce. It may look nice now but as standard of living improves the ugly side will emerge.

Jawge, you may have some explaining to do:

The Decline of Western Innovation

Why America is falling behind and how to fix it.



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East Beats West

While Americans worry about losing ground in our ability to innovate, the rest of the world still has a healthy respect for American ingenuity, according to the NEWSWEEK-Intel global innovation survey. Here are the highlights.


By Daniel McGinn | NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 16, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Nov 23, 2009

Only a slight breeze blew across the plains of Inner Mongolia on a recent afternoon, but the giant turbines at the Huitengxile Wind Power Field were spinning steadily. This facility, 200 miles northwest of Beijing, has 550 turbines churning out enough juice to power a small city, and inside a monitoring station, plant manager Zhang Jianjun points to a wall chart showing the 11 different suppliers of the high-tech windmills. Four are Chinese companies, but when Zhang is asked to pick his favorite, his nationalism is trumped by a desire for quality. "General Electric," he says, citing its reliability. "I'm excited when all of the turbines are working."

GE's roots lie in Thomas Edison's Menlo Park lab, the site of some of the most significant innovation in our history. Today millions of Edison's spiritual descendants—engineers, geneticists, programmers, entrepreneurs—are toiling in basic research across the country. But amid a profound economic slowdown, Americans have real doubts about their ability to maintain their edge in innovation, even as they agree that technological innovation is more important than ever.
Those insights, gleaned from the NEWSWEEK-Intel Global Innovation Survey, inspired us to consider what it will take for Americans to once again believe they are at the forefront of technological innovation. Funded by Intel and conducted by the polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, the survey—an online questionnaire administered to 4,800 adults in the United States, China, Germany, and the United Kingdom—set out to compare their views about the innovation race. NEWSWEEK had editorial control over the survey questions, as well as the interpretation of the results.

On some issues there is widespread agreement: two thirds of respondents believe innovation will be more important than ever to the U.S. economy over the next 30 years. But the survey shows some striking contrasts as well. Eighty-one percent of Chinese believe the U.S. is staying ahead of China on innovation; only 41 percent of Americans agree. To find the next big breakthrough, Americans are focused on improving math and science education, while Chinese are more concerned about developing creative problem-solving and business skills.
Around the globe, there are signs that the recession may be easing—and as it does, people of all nationalities will resume their hunt for the best products, the best investments, and the best jobs. As the world's economy speeds back up, regaining our faith in our ability to innovate will be critical. View the NEWSWEEK-Intel Survey highlights here.
© 2009

[Jawge]

Explain what mo? People's belief? Sorry I'm no authority in theology.

[Mosiah]

that's it, jawge? yuh mek newsweek stump yuh?!

[Islandman]

Jawge you nuh did read "The World is Flat"? This idea of Asians being rote learners and not very innovative is just a Western stereotype.

China has a way to go but things are changing. The Japanese were known for crappy, unreliable products once and it was not that long ago either.

[Mosiah]

Jawge you nuh did read "The World is Flat"? This idea of Asians being rote learners and not very innovative is just a Western stereotype.

and Western arrogance! as if they have a right to creativity and intelligence.

[Jawge]

Stump mi? Boss you posted the beliefs of two nationalities and expect me to argue their beliefs. Come on MO do better than that.Unless you are up to some trickery.

[Jawge]

Iman sorry if it came off as sterotype but one must deal with the facts: The US govt. single handedly tranferred a lot of sensitive technology to China. Japan got a bulk of US technolgy and aid after 1945; matter of fact Japan is now allowed to fund research in US colleges (hence giving them first dibs on some innovations). Wasn't it a professor from NYU that put Japan on the path of quality control? well Japan first admitted they din't know and said "come show us how" (we in Ja seem lost on the concept of saying "I don't know how, show me how to do it")

I don't see you tackling the part that China is on a whole racially biased towards blacks. Is it that you feel that they are justified because blacks are inferior as a race? Let me know boss. I am enlightened enough to look beyond race (which is really socio political concept) but at the same time if you engage in certain practices, innovation will be lost on you.

[Islandman]

My general belief is that all groups of people have thier racial biases and I doubt Asians are any different. Chinese have discriminated against the Japanese and vice versa, and the Indian caste system, still around today, is legendary so I see no reason to believe that they would have a more enlightened view of blacks than any other group (including blacks).

Many may disagree with me but I think blacks are as racially biased as any other group, its just that for the most part we are powerless so there is not as much tangible evidence of it.

[Jawge]

The answer lies within the last sentence: They are powerless (without a strong industrial base or political system as Garvey alluded to most of the times) hence cannot be be biased as other ethnic groups.

[Gamma]

only partly correct, they can be biased or even prejudiced but the those biases or prejudice is largely ineffective (and may cause self inflicted impotence) because they have limited economic power