The situation in China is different than that of the USA. It would be best to compare China's growth to that of the four Asian Tigers (Taiwan, Singapore, S. Korea, etc...). Most of those countries where in the exact same situation and grew in the same way (e.g. cheap labour, manufacturing, etc...).
The USA grew much lower over a longer time. China had severe presures on their econonmy forcing it to be small even though it had a large population (e.g. the cultural revolution). When last was there a military dictatorship in the USA?
Also bear in mind that 100+ years ago, there was sweatshops in the USA and Britian when those countries went through industrialization (even child labour).
Okay, only anecdotal evidence â" one of my family members owns a bakery. Since I've installed cameras (9 months, 8 CCTV pal cameras) he actually have the same number as stock sold as for the amount of flour he bought.
The cameras recorded 4 incidents (of which 1 led to a disciplinary hearing and 3 led to convictions of theft).
The improvement in revenue was so high that it paid the costs of the cameras every two days. The cameras completely (or almost completely) eliminated the following problems:
Theft of stock
Theft in which a customer is assisted by the person on the till.
Theft of maize.
Employee maltreating a client.
Client cheating the person on the cash register with money.
Theft by clients.
Employees lying on their timecards.
Employees taking short cuts in production (which leads to an inferior product). Some examples of this is too long or two short mixing times. Dough that stands for excessive times.
Sabotage â" either breaking machines or changing settings (usually by one group who dislikes a person in the next bakeing group)
Cameras overall lead to better employee-employer relationships since bad employees can be eliminated and there is not the aura of suspicion.
Whether his comments where racists or anti-black-culture I would think that it was extremely offensive for black people.
I doubt these comments were conciliatory in tone (when looking back at the numerous clashes between Indian people and black people).
I do not agree with the above poster - but your counter argument is even more wrong.
Name check someone prominent (who didn't say anything in support of your argument), add some bogus theory with no support (but imply that it comes from the famous names),
You did the same thing below (only using Gandhi's name).
Maybe I'm different based on the country I was born in, the way my parents fed me, raised me (the fact that I had loving parents), their wealth and social connections, the forces and choices that formed my personality. My education, the books I read, what I chose to study, my teachers and role models, how hard I worked at it, how well I networked, the career and jobs I chose, the person I married, the city I live in... Where does this genetic optimization come in?
Your argument is basically: genetics play no part since my upbringing(environment) plays a part. Don't you believe that genetics can also play a part? You are probably one of those persons who believe that any other argument is heresy and that genetic differences should not be researched.
With this I differ - of course the social environment plays a part - but there are genetic differences between population groups. Research into this should be encouraged and not suppressed (people doing research today are in the same position as Galileo - just look at how E.O. Wilson was treated).
Where does this genetic optimization come in?
Some researchers suggested that evolutionary pressures such as the environment (e.g. long cold winters, etc...) could cause differences in human genetics. The optimization would therefore be on the best evolutionary strategy for this environment. Whether this happened or not is debatable - but you have to admit that it is a plausible scenario.
Think of the people who promolgate this theory of inevitable race-war hatred: From Milosovic
The shit in the former Yugoslavia was because of Balkanization. Among some groups there was little genetic difference. The biggest difference between the groups were cultural issues (such as religion). I think you are confusing nationalism with racism.
to Bin Laden (who rails against Jewish people)
He is a religious fundamentalist. I doubt that you can call him racist because there were Americans, Africans, people from Indonesia, etc... in al-Qaeda. He perceives Israel as a threat to Islam and Islamic populations in Palestine - that is why he hates Jewish people (not because he feels that he is from a superior race).
Then think of those who say that humans can integrate and live together regardless of supposed 'race', from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King Jr., to Mahatma Gandhi
I do not know the history of the USA well - but here are a few interesting things WP says about Thomas Jefferson (main article): âIn this same work, Jefferson advanced his suspicion that black people were inferior to white people "in the endowments both of body and mind."
Mahatma Gandhi was extremely racist against black people (people sometimes ignore this because he did many great things in is life). Here are some quotes from him (most of these appeared in the SA opinion - for an online reference see wikiquote):
About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
You say that the magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram, and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a cer
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"we have some of the slowest and simultaneously most expensive internet service in the world."
Bullshit. Compare your internet prices to South Africa. You are comparatively extremely fortunate with your internet services.
The situation in China is different than that of the USA. It would be best to compare China's growth to that of the four Asian Tigers (Taiwan, Singapore, S. Korea, etc...). Most of those countries where in the exact same situation and grew in the same way (e.g. cheap labour, manufacturing, etc...).
The USA grew much lower over a longer time. China had severe presures on their econonmy forcing it to be small even though it had a large population (e.g. the cultural revolution). When last was there a military dictatorship in the USA?
Also bear in mind that 100+ years ago, there was sweatshops in the USA and Britian when those countries went through industrialization (even child labour).
That is true - China consumes 30% more coal than the USA. But per person China is 16th (below Russia, UK, Canada, United States, etc...).
So to put the blame on their shouldiers is not right - they have as much right per capita as anyone else.
(Stats from nationmaster. Select Coal Consumption and Coal Consumption per GDP under Energy statistics)
This is difficult. It is easy to point at China and say "hey the pollute".
But then we should also take into account that China signed the Kyoto protocol, the USA did not.
We should also ask ourselves what is high polution and what is fair (this is more an ethical question than anything else).
Example: per capita China pollutes less than the USA.
Per $ GDP China pollutes more than the USA (due to less effective industries, etc...).
So what is right? Should China be allowed to pollute 3 times as much as the USA because it has 3 times the population.
Or do we view it as the most effective (w.r.t. polution) industrialized country wins?
Where is Haligonia? Never heard of such a place.
The cameras recorded 4 incidents (of which 1 led to a disciplinary hearing and 3 led to convictions of theft).
The improvement in revenue was so high that it paid the costs of the cameras every two days. The cameras completely (or almost completely) eliminated the following problems:
Cameras overall lead to better employee-employer relationships since bad employees can be eliminated and there is not the aura of suspicion.
It depends. I am fairly sure that it is a lot easier to convict someone based on camera footage than word of mounth.
CCTV cameras have reduced crime in shops and businesses significantly - I see no reason why they should not be used outside of businesses.
You are going to wait quite a while for your plug-in hybrid.
Whether his comments where racists or anti-black-culture I would think that it was extremely offensive for black people.
I doubt these comments were conciliatory in tone (when looking back at the numerous clashes between Indian people and black people).
I do not agree with the above poster - but your counter argument is even more wrong.
... Where does this genetic optimization come in?
Name check someone prominent (who didn't say anything in support of your argument), add some bogus theory with no support (but imply that it comes from the famous names),
You did the same thing below (only using Gandhi's name).
Maybe I'm different based on the country I was born in, the way my parents fed me, raised me (the fact that I had loving parents), their wealth and social connections, the forces and choices that formed my personality. My education, the books I read, what I chose to study, my teachers and role models, how hard I worked at it, how well I networked, the career and jobs I chose, the person I married, the city I live in
Your argument is basically: genetics play no part since my upbringing(environment) plays a part. Don't you believe that genetics can also play a part? You are probably one of those persons who believe that any other argument is heresy and that genetic differences should not be researched.
With this I differ - of course the social environment plays a part - but there are genetic differences between population groups. Research into this should be encouraged and not suppressed (people doing research today are in the same position as Galileo - just look at how E.O. Wilson was treated).
Where does this genetic optimization come in?
Some researchers suggested that evolutionary pressures such as the environment (e.g. long cold winters, etc...) could cause differences in human genetics. The optimization would therefore be on the best evolutionary strategy for this environment. Whether this happened or not is debatable - but you have to admit that it is a plausible scenario.
Think of the people who promolgate this theory of inevitable race-war hatred: From Milosovic
The shit in the former Yugoslavia was because of Balkanization. Among some groups there was little genetic difference. The biggest difference between the groups were cultural issues (such as religion). I think you are confusing nationalism with racism.
to Bin Laden (who rails against Jewish people)
He is a religious fundamentalist. I doubt that you can call him racist because there were Americans, Africans, people from Indonesia, etc... in al-Qaeda. He perceives Israel as a threat to Islam and Islamic populations in Palestine - that is why he hates Jewish people (not because he feels that he is from a superior race).
Then think of those who say that humans can integrate and live together regardless of supposed 'race', from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King Jr., to Mahatma Gandhi
I do not know the history of the USA well - but here are a few interesting things WP says about Thomas Jefferson (main article):
âIn this same work, Jefferson advanced his suspicion that black people were inferior to white people "in the endowments both of body and mind."
Mahatma Gandhi was extremely racist against black people (people sometimes ignore this because he did many great things in is life). Here are some quotes from him (most of these appeared in the SA opinion - for an online reference see wikiquote):
About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.
You say that the magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram, and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a cer