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us-china relations are going to get ugly enough in the next decade without this sort of crap

takeaway box is a sort of racism-by-synecdoche

After several campaigns by the Scottish Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is indirectly racist.

are you fucking kidding me?

what's it about? I basically think some dumb flyer's asian stereotypes are 'less problematic' than the big picture narratives that the entire country accepts w/r/t trade policy but #2 is harder to question / talk about

what? a white guy thinks the racism angle isn't really a big deal? eat it edward r murrow I've got the scoop of the year

what? aero purposely misreads an iatee post so he can get a zing in?

the point wasn't that 'the racism angle isn't really a big deal' the point was that the racism angle that 1000 people get isn't as important as the racism angle that 300 million people get

which is 'an american deserves a job more than a chinese person does'

eh, more that products purchased in america should be economically viable to produce in america, thus encouraging local employment

that same logic works in china! where people are poorer!

what, like no one owns foxconn? not /everyone/ is poorer

a friend I was talking to last night had been in china recently and people were excited to see her using a tablet running android! they'd never seen android, since apparently devices aren't sold there or are somehow legally restricted. she wanted to use google docs, though, but it was banned by the country's firewall. a lot of android devices are manufactured in china!

she also talked to some people who had seen a tv show about american dollar stores, and they were surprised by the variety of items available for only a dollar. how much do you want to bet a fair number of things were actually made in china?

the economics, manufacturing, and product availability of things is weird, I guess.

just saying. samsung is a big player in chinese smartphone market (19% market share) （galaxy android phones on taobao） and htc. i bought a samsung galaxy in dalian in april. google docs usually works for me in china but gets locked up about as often as blogger does (goes in erratic cycles). chinese consumers like apple. china has their own version of dollar stores selling the same cheap shit for less than a dollar and you can find the same shit in any corner store or downmarket department store.

and other android devices widely available in china： http://s8.taobao.com/search?q=android&pid=mm_10011550_2325296_9002527&unid=&mode=63&from_bt=1&initiative_id=staobaoz_20121111

yeah, it seemed really off to me! I'll have to ask where she was. The intermittent lockdown was what she meant, though.