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Naomi Wu Jan 31, 2023

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Why is China not creative? NASA is planning a crewed mission to Mars. China is not planning to go to another planet to perform a mission but wants to beat the US on the same goal. If China were a person, it has one fucking personality.

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“@RealSexyCyborg @chineseciv @zhao_dashuai Why is China not creative? NASA is planning a crewed mission to Mars. China is not planning to go to another planet to perform a mission but wants to beat the US on the same goal. If China were a person, it has one fucking personality.”

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Naomi Wu Jan 31, 2023

Obviously, these aren't good-faith questions, it's conclusions from decades of Sinophobic propaganda. But that does not mean from the outside looking in, it can't look a bit like this sometimes- particularly if we don't try to show evidence to the contrary.
I'll give it a shot.

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Naomi Wu Jan 31, 2023

>Why is China not creative?

This is more "Why does China often appear to not be creative in ways Western cultures recognize and value?"

I'd start here with this article I wrote way back for @[email protected]

https://hackaday.com/2017/08/30/lu-bans-axe-and-working-with-your-chinese-suppliers/

Lu Ban’s Axe And Working With Your Chinese Suppliers

It is nearly impossible to build any kind of hardware these days without at some point in the process dealing with China — Chinese suppliers, and so by extension Chinese culture. Difficulties…

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Victoria McIntosh Jan 31, 2023

@SexyCyborg Anyone who thinks "China is not creative" hasn't paid attention to the country's arts, science, technology, literature or industrial sector ever.

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mhoye

@vmcintosh @SexyCyborg Well, sure, but if we turned the question around to something like "what's keeping me from seeing and understanding this" then we'd have to engage in some sort of introspection about the scope of our own vision and maybe even reflect on the influences that limit our worldviews, and clearly we could never do that, that sounds like work.