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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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Math Lover

@SexyCyborg I brought up Japan because what you describe sounds like issues in Japan but in my experience I found Japanese and Chinese culture to each be more like the USA in many ways that like each other. They seemed so very different from one another to me in the 80s and 90s.

I did a project on creativity in grad school and talked about the Chinese artistic method of copying from your master first and then being creative as opposed to the American way of being creative before gaining skill.