• Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I mean I have a family member who is a famous professor, and they often participates in PhD defences around the world. They have a lot of negative stuff to say about Chinese academics. Says they’re incredibly dogmatic and rigid in their approach to writing and making PhDs, they barely do anything new, but are instead following a pre-planned path set for them by their mentor. Like they don’t really do any new research for PhDs, is their experience.

    On the other hand China built a hospital in 7 days and 10s of thousands of miles of high speed rail, so maybe the Chinese are doing something right.

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      2 months ago

      It unfortunately is literally just racism. Asians as interchangeable insectoid hivemind incapable of creativity whose individual lives have no value vs. the pure beautiful brilliant whites, each soul a precious pearl of unquantifiable value. You see this archetype everywhere once you know it. It is also objectively total bullshit as anybody who knows anything about, say, Shenzhen can attest.