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And We Now Take You To Hangzhou
- Thread starter PAHIBuff
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Yuk yuk.
No. I’m not suggesting that. Nice use of rhetoric though.
You guys need to go to work for North Korea, Yale University, or the DNC. Flip a coin. Twice.
Non answer.
Key quote...
"Every young person makes mistakes, but the key point is how they will handle it after making the mistake," Tsai said before the game Saturday. "I think sometimes things can be very complicated, and the last couple of days I've seen firsthand professionalism on all sides."
When the Alibaba founder has your back, things typically go well. But making this go away will not be free. Tsai will get something down the line.
"Every young person makes mistakes, but the key point is how they will handle it after making the mistake," Tsai said before the game Saturday. "I think sometimes things can be very complicated, and the last couple of days I've seen firsthand professionalism on all sides."
When the Alibaba founder has your back, things typically go well. But making this go away will not be free. Tsai will get something down the line.
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
Bezos better be looking over his shoulder.
Intellectual property and physical property are very different things. Most cultures throughout history have respected some level of individual ownership of physical things, only recently and only in western cultures has individual ownership of intellectual property been generally recognized.
Then consider a culture that tends to value collective rights over individual rights, and...
Well let's just say that I will not defend Chinese lack of respect for intellectual property, but I would not level the charge "hypocrite" at them for it.
But the also are blatant at copyright infringement. Want a Coach purse or Rolex watch? How about Nike athletic shoes? Why does their government allow production of knockoffs? Isn't that stealing every bit as blatantly as shoplifting?
They didn't go to the Gucci factory and steal Gucci bags (i.e. steal physical things). They bought one and replicated it (i.e. stole intellectual property).
I don't think either one is right. But there is a real difference between them. Pretty much every culture throughout human history has judged the stealing of physical things from another person as being wrong. The vast majority of human cultures throughout history have found it to be ok to "steal" someone else's idea, including China's current one.
I'm not saying they are right (in fact, I think it's wrong), but hypocrisy means treating the same thing differently, and these aren't the same thing. Similar, but still different enough that most human societies across time are actually on the Chinese side.
Remember, most human societies across time judged it ok for 14 year old girls to get married to 32 year old men too, so this isn't an argument that they're "right."
Rather, I'm just saying that "hypocrite" doesn't apply. "Ignorant behavior of a backward society," is even less PC than "hypocrites," but it's much more accurate.
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
My son lived their for 18 months. They treated him very well. Aside from their government, the people are very nice.
SuperiorBuff
Well-Known Member
Government officials came into the school where my son worked and told them they’d be shut down if they didn’t lower tuition. A day later they returned and told them that for 50,000 yuan (about $8,000), they would be allowed to maintain the same tuition.
