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<blockquote data-quote="HOSS" data-source="post: 315217" data-attributes="member: 1863"><p>As someone who travels extensively in China on business maybe I can offer some insight. The Chinese do not have a long track record of embracing technology and new ideas. This was due to it being a closed society for 50 years. They have only been really open to outside business for about 20 years. The inability to travel far within the country has also focused geographical locations into being experts at different products. When internal travel and people relocation become the norm like in America then the knowledge base will become more diverse.</p><p></p><p>They will be slower to react to building quality product than Japan for several reasons. Some are cultural or political but some are somewhat genetic. The Chinese have told me that during some of the dynasties of the past the emporer or king would get angry at a group or trade and have them all killed. One leader, that built an elaborate tomb for his eventual dead body, had an irrational fear that his body would be stolen by his enemies. He had his engineers design and build the tomb complete with booby traps etc.. He had a sealed decree that after his death that all engineers within his province were to be killed. This would ensure that no one could figure out how to get to his body. The decree basically killed out a whole generation of intellectual spacial thinkers as well as inventors. This type of thinking is partially genetic so that reduced the amount of technologicaly advanced thinkers that would have been born later. The Chinese have an actual word to describe this condition. I'll have to consult my notes to drag it up though. This is why they are good at copying but not at developing or inventing. Inventing something new is a handicap so they focus on copying. Japan was the same way at first but they did not have the gene gap of China or the closed society so they were able to make giant strides quickly.</p><p></p><p>When China learns to build quality in at the source America is in trouble because we will lose the technology jobs also. Everytime I visit China I see forward progress in quality as well as in infrastructure. Keep in mind that even with all of the jobs being outsourced to China their unemployment rate is still 40%. This means that labor will still remain very cheap for years to come. It is a scary situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HOSS, post: 315217, member: 1863"] As someone who travels extensively in China on business maybe I can offer some insight. The Chinese do not have a long track record of embracing technology and new ideas. This was due to it being a closed society for 50 years. They have only been really open to outside business for about 20 years. The inability to travel far within the country has also focused geographical locations into being experts at different products. When internal travel and people relocation become the norm like in America then the knowledge base will become more diverse. They will be slower to react to building quality product than Japan for several reasons. Some are cultural or political but some are somewhat genetic. The Chinese have told me that during some of the dynasties of the past the emporer or king would get angry at a group or trade and have them all killed. One leader, that built an elaborate tomb for his eventual dead body, had an irrational fear that his body would be stolen by his enemies. He had his engineers design and build the tomb complete with booby traps etc.. He had a sealed decree that after his death that all engineers within his province were to be killed. This would ensure that no one could figure out how to get to his body. The decree basically killed out a whole generation of intellectual spacial thinkers as well as inventors. This type of thinking is partially genetic so that reduced the amount of technologicaly advanced thinkers that would have been born later. The Chinese have an actual word to describe this condition. I'll have to consult my notes to drag it up though. This is why they are good at copying but not at developing or inventing. Inventing something new is a handicap so they focus on copying. Japan was the same way at first but they did not have the gene gap of China or the closed society so they were able to make giant strides quickly. When China learns to build quality in at the source America is in trouble because we will lose the technology jobs also. Everytime I visit China I see forward progress in quality as well as in infrastructure. Keep in mind that even with all of the jobs being outsourced to China their unemployment rate is still 40%. This means that labor will still remain very cheap for years to come. It is a scary situation. [/QUOTE]
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