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It must suck for legitimate high quality Chinese artisans to be associated with the "made in China" stigma. (jlai.lu)

submitted 6 days ago by oce@jlai.lu to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had a housemate from India who kind of initially mocked when I bought a (second hand) new pair of earphones saying it's from China. I just gave a bewildered look and told him everything is made in China these days and that the reputation of poor quality Chinese product is past its stereotype. He still looked up where it is made and indeed my earphones are from China. But it shows he still prioritises where it is made than actually finding out if the inherent sound quality and features are good.

I'm Asian myself but many Asians are obsessed with showing status symbols. They especially like to get iPhones, despite majority of those phones being assembled in China.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago

Only the majority?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I don't think the "made in china" stigma exists anymore.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 6 days ago (8 children)

For me it's stronger than ever. China has never been more of an existential threat to democracy around the world and continued human existence on this planet.

[–] PepperoniNipple@lazysoci.al 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What a dumb comment. You have never had democracy in your life. You are NOT a Mega Donor. You don't have the money to pay for any TV ad or campaign of the politician you want to see win. All your life, for the majority of all the countries in the world, people have been forced to elect either politician A who appeals to empathetic people, or politician B who appeals to sympathetic people, both with a touch of apathy for the other. Both ready to answer for the top 1%'s needs FIRST before ours.

If you're someone who still thinks "America is all about freedom and democracy" you are just a mouthbreathing moron. You never had freedom, you never had democracy, and it was all thanks to capitalism convincing you of giving all your hard work, money and sweat to a government and bunch of rich people that don't care about you. "Trickle Down Economics: decrease the taxes of the rich so they can create more jobs". They didn't create shit, only layoffs.

Yet, here you are, still trying to convince people to blindly hate Chinese people and whatnot. You bring up articles written by MAGAs, but since nobody reads the name of the author, and also the content, you get away with "looking confident enough" to sway away challenges. What a fucking waste of time. Your only purpose in this website is to try and spread American Exceptionalism just because you openly and proudly support the Jeffrey Epstein Class.

[–] dreksob@feddit.online 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You say China, you mean Republicans

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

those high quality artisans you see in promotional videos produced by the ccp aren't really exporting goods though, and if they are, it's not for the likes of us

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There really aren't any left. China doesn't value them, so everyone goes into business or something. China does two things, they either copy a product from somewhere else or they hire outside firms from other countries to design their products if the company is big enough. Artists basically went to zero during the cultural revolution.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

When I began reading your comment I thought you were just ignorant about manufacturing, but when I reached the last sentence I realised that you don't even know the difference between an artisan and an artist.

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