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"The Chinese care more about learning and being productive than they do about how many sick days and annual leave days they will get each year."

Thank god there's some white dude here to share the truth about what those Orientals want. Weekends and health insurance? pffft. The only thing Chinese people value is hard work!

(And I'm someone who's not terribly shocked or upset at Foxconn. Terrible article, nonetheless.)

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Not to be overly sensitive, but I believe the term "Orientals" is derogatory. Even if used in jest, you wouldn't use something like the "N" word casually (http://www.lifeintheusa.com/people/asians.htm). Just pointing this out for the sake of clean conversation.

It's obvious that scarmig is parodying the comments Ruslan makes in the article and thus using the term "Orientals" to criticise and not in his/her own voice. Well perhaps it's not obvious to hyper-ventilating PC police so intent on keeping things "clean" you write a post attacking someone who likely agrees with you..

Edit: You were on the right track when you said "not to be overly sensitive" because even with your misinterpretation of scarmig you were still aware that you were being an annoying whiner.

Besides, as a matter of sheer fact, the Chinese get more annual leave days than, say, Americans.

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