western arrogance is truly astounding. somehow people who consume 0 chinese media and cant speak a lick of the language somehow are intricately aware of not only chinese media, but chinese society.
but of course. the benchmark is minor influencer and HN darling naomi wu.
1. it is highly relevant outside the western bubble, 2. their domestic market is large enough that china does not have to whore itself out to the west like korea or japan, 3. you gloss over the deliberate suppression by the US regime. japan was not "culturally relevant" in the US before the late 80s when they bent the knee
> but your statement about China is straight from a CCP propaganda handbook.
and? the Chinese people live and believe it. propaganda can be true, and governments can in fact live up to their statements. ofc with westerners' pathological mistrust of authority, as well as their penchant to pick the worst possible leaders, we will never come to any agreement about this.
also, are we seriously still unironically typing "guanxi" in this day and age? social capital is hardly something to be exoticized. keep the orientalist rhetoric where it belongs please.
no serious fan of the sport would agree. not even truls would consider him to be the 2nd best in the world. but yes, he did have an amazing run to the silver
How insightful could this possibly be if socioeconomic variables are not controlled for? Clearly the socioeconomic makeup of "US Asians" is not the same as, say, the entire population of Korean students.
Your first paragraph is 10, 20 years out of date. And you conflate the prestige & economic power of the US with its education quality. As your example exemplifies, those coming here for school are coming for economic reasons (an increasingly less compelling draw, by the way), not because they think the education here is special.
when others get to dictate the terms to the US for once - "coercive, illegal"
what a fun euphemism for "something that doesn't enforce US economic hegemony". you just can't help yourselves using this morally-coded language. it's geopolitical competition and you benefit personally from supporting the US - enough with the grandstanding
this is quite hyperbolic. he has too complicated a legacy to dismiss this easily. some of the concepts he pioneered include talk therapy, transference, significance of early childhood on psychological development, the influence of the unconscious on behavior - all of which we accept today
yes, there is a widespread awareness that this is all realpolitik. in the western public, everything is a moral struggle between good and evil, where the west is the good guy de facto
to add on to this - far more chinese people visit the west than the other way around. many study english. there is significantly greater understanding of their counterpart's systems in china than in the US or europe. the US has trouble recruiting people who are even literate in mandarin, FFS, to say nothing about familiarity with the culture (even more incredibly, nobody questions reporting or analysis on china produced by these illiterate people!)
in the major cities at least, there is significantly growing awareness atp that domestic infrastructure, technology, etc. is simply better than in the west. people meme about western cities as being comparable to villages
however
1. they certainly do recognize areas where they are "behind". more interesting than technologies (ex. space, hn's new pet topic in semiconductors eyeroll, etc.) are things like recognizing mental health concerns and better working conditions
2. there are obviously still millions upon millions of people not in the major cities, for whom life has improved but clearly hasn't reached western standards
i dont think the spirit of what youre saying is wrong, but the inferiority complex youre implying is fading fast
yes of course, the enlightened Americans are so much better at handling crime. pointing at western justice systems to say that western values are superior - this must be satire?
an amusing fantasy. I'd love to see your western biases shatter when you do just that. do you think it's at all hard to find a 70yr old Chinese person?
i think you may be overestimating the avg. past data scientist's software engineering chops, but it's definitely true that the term has become more diluted than ever
you still find these kinds of people and roles at smaller companies but at largecorps, what's the point? the interesting modelbuilding you shunt off to your army of phd-holding research scientists. deploying models and managing infra goes to MLE. what's left is the data analyst stuff, which you repackage as "data science" because cmon, "analytics"? are we dinosaurs? this is modern tech, we have an image to uphold!
there's not really a need for, or supply of, people who can do everything (edit: _at largecorps_, obviously)
but of course. the benchmark is minor influencer and HN darling naomi wu.