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i'll chalk you down as jumping to conclusion too.
here, let me spell it out for you, as you are finding it hard to understand.
some countries have a reputation for manufacturing goods that are of a lower quality than other countries.
this actually has nothing to do with their race, or skin colour, or anything related, but actually their quality control process.
please dont blindly assume that because i am actually drawing a distinction between countries, that i am racist.
its ok to recognise that some countries are different to others, there is no need to blindly point the finger and shout 'racist'...you will have to look elsewhere for someone to blindly point your finger at.
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and I think we understand just fine, you're a racist, and hate china for having chinese people
its been explained to you mutiple times that QC has nothing to do with culture, race, national origin, or anything else, but lets break that down a bit (as you're having a spot of trouble following me on a learning adventure)
a factory is either owned wholly or leased by a company wishing to produce a product, that company then choses how much its gonna dump into this factory, financially, and what kind of QC and manufacturing tolerence control its going to require, for example taiwan (which you're claiming has no QC) is home to most of the world's silicon foundaries (if you take Intel out of the calculation, as they operate globally, basically whoever is offering the biggest tax cut when they want to expand (and when you're looking at around US $2 billion from inception to opening day for a foundary, tax cuts matter)), which are going to have higher QC than most academic foundaries, and better production abilities than most facilities in the world (but, I forgot, its taiwan, so its gotta be crap, right?)
now you've also got some manufacturing facilities in the US, lets say, Thomson SA's facilities in Indiana before they closed in ~2004, which were notorious for low quality junk across the board (brands like RCA, which survived purely for the "HAS TO BE MADE IN THE USA" types, priced higher than the import equipment, purely because it costs more to do less in-country because of cost of living considerations, americans are simply one of the most expensive nationalities to employ world-round, solely because of being born in the US)
now of course you could argue back, but Intel manufactures in the US, along with other high precision machine companies, carmakers (including Mercdes Benz and Toyota (which I doubt you'd buy because the home office is in Japan)), thats entirely true, but if you're going to accept that, you must also accept the inverse, that those high precision facilities exist in Taiwan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, India, and so on, solely becuase labor is less expensive, land is less expensive, and the governments are more friendly to industrial manufacture (sometimes over-zealously so, such as the Mexican government in the 1970's and 1980's)
your post has nothing at all to do with "products from some places are lower quality", because if it did, you'd be talking about specific brands or sub-contractors, which can very easily be blamed for poor QC, take SkullCandy for example, its manufactured at the lowest possible cost, its designed at the lowest possible cost, and the primary investment is marketing dollars, you get low quality crap as the output result, however it would be low quality crap if it was manufactured in California or Canton, becuase it isn't designed or intended to be precision equipment
take generalizations of this, and forming and feeding sterotypes in an ignorant manner, such as saying "all products from China and Taiwan are junk", thats text-book racism, plain and simple
or would you prefer the term xenophobe? hate-monger? backwards idealist? culturally insensitive prick?
