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Comment by jcoffland | Hacker News Reader

Wow, these are some seriously racist comments.

That comment was bad for taking the thread into nationalistic flamewar, but this comment is also bad for taking the thread further into flamewar.

Please don't do that. The site guidelines specifically ask you not to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It is not an attack on a race of people. There is an SCMP article on the problematic atmosphere of cheating in Chinese schools [1], and dozens by Chinese contributors to large, mainstream publications.

[1]:https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1974986...

I'm not sure how race comes into it. We are talking about a single country, not a race. The original commenter even mentioned Japan and Korea as examples of countries that are different from China in this regard.

Not only the comment is about a particular nation of people, "race" is essentially an Americanism at this point, and it's tiring to see attempts at coerce everything into a "race" problem.

China, the country != Chinese (Asian?), the race

What does race have to do with any of this? I'm discussing their government's economic and academic model. That's like saying criticism of America's healthcare system is racist against whites, because that's their majority ethnic group.

If anything, it says a lot about you that you associated everything I said with their ethnicity rather than the government itself.

The term "racism" includes both race-based as well as ethnicity-based stereotyping. See, for example, Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

The idea of Chinese companies/universities/etc. being uncreative and over-reliant on imitation and industrial espionage is quite obviously a somewhat tired cliché. I'm certain it makes an appearance in almost every single front page comment threat on the Chinese economy of the last five years or so.

There might even be a kernel of truth. But, as others have pointed out, the same was said of Japan and Taiwan before. In such a situation, you should be wary of repeating such stereotypes if you don't have first-hand experience, which I doubt many of those regurgitating that trope have.

China is a country, with a different education system, which produces different outcomes and culture.

Nobody is making any claim whatsoever about the behavior of Chinese-Americans or Chinese-Europeans. That would be racist.

Nationalist comments, not racist.

You do realize that 'Chinese' is not a race, right?

Welcome to HN where any China-related topic is treated with the same hostility.

If this level of "hostility" offends you, please don't read the US-related topics.

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