Thinking China is the same as it was 10-30 years ago and that Chinese products canβt have superior quality.
Weβve reached a point where the US doesnβt even know how to manufacture some of the stuff China can.
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I've recently been getting some stupidly high-quality stuff from China for insanely good prices.
Essentially, I've been buying stuff from Walmart that has been marked down over $100. What I think is happening is no-name Chinese companies try to make a high quality product and sell it for a premium, but then nobody buys it because of the reputation no-name Chinese companies have. Then, they still need to sell their inventory so we can get great products at great prices.
These bluetooth headphones from a company I've never heard on straight up shit on the Sennheisers I used to have that cost significantly more.
I think some Chinese brands need to own their premium prices. It might be difficult with electronics however.
There are steels that premium Chinese brands can make that are objectively better that nobody else has produced yet and they are VERY expensive.
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Their attitudes towards elderly parents. I've been told I shouldn't worry about helping them in their old age because they had their chance to work and save for retirement and so it's their responsibility of it's not enough. Except... They didn't. They migrated here with nothing, provided for THEIR parents their whole lives, and did the best they could for me, which left them with next to nothing. Westerners assume everyone boomer aged or so had the same opportunities that their parents had. The nuclear family is also very hands-off about caring for the elderly. That's not how most of the world operates. Plus, it's so sad!
Yep, same in the UK. We've abandoned our elderly and seemingly can't wait for our kids to leave so that we enjoy maybe 10 years of watching TV and not working before we die.
In other, less 'developed' countries the family is a unit. The elderly help with the infants (which has been proven to be mutually beneficial), while the rest of the family works or helps maintain the household. There's way less likelyhood of abandonment or lonliness in old age, which in my country is endemic.
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"immigration is why our lives are getting worse"
Very clear indicator that someone has barely attempted to understand how the world works
I mean yeah thats a good indication, but thinking about it, many asian countries also have this same feeling. So is it a westernized thought process or just "people are stupid as fuck" problem. I lean on the latter.
It's a racism problem, which one might argue is people being stupid as fuck.
It's a capitalist problem. As long as the billionaire class keeps us fighting a culture war amongst ourselves, we won't realize that the actual war is a class war against them.
There are only two classes. The billionaires and the rest of us (that they call "labour"). If you can convince the labour class that they are divided by race, religion, etc.. they'll be too busy blaming each other to come burn down your mansion.
Acting that everyone on Reddit/Lemmy is American.
The Netherlands is just as much a part of the West.
Failing to have a coherent understanding of how imperialism works. A lot of westerners seem to think they live in developed countries developed purely by their own industry, while not realizing how financial capital continues to plunder the global south.
sometimes not acknowledging it even exists.
Definitely true as well.
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"If your poor its because you didn't try hard enough"
Even in the west that one doesn't stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share
Yeah that one is less a 'westernism' and more a '1%er-ism'
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MM/dd/yyyy date format by default on software
Worst format ever. It should either be dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd
ISO-8601. Accept no compromise.
The worst?? Try mm/yy/dd, and you'll regret everything in your life. Another βgreatβ one is yyyy-dd-mm; it'll infuriate anyone using the ISO standard.
What fresh evil is this?
MM/YY/DDD (Ordinal date)
Okay now that IS the worst, good point
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Maybe more of a US bubble but American software never considers that people might be multi lingual and public transport is always disregarded.
Examples include: Google knows that I speak German and English since I put it in my settings and yet it tries to auto-dub German YouTube content and auto-translates German comments in Maps.
Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.
Those are just examples, there are many more examples in software where you can notice some 20 year old US tech bro came up with it who has never been to a different country.
Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.
This reminded me of a few months ago when I went to Milan with a friend. I used Organic Maps for getting around and they used Gmaps. Their phone was always trying to get us to walk as little as possible, using EVERY possible combination of metro, tram and busses for even the shortest trips, it was insane. Change bus here, ride one stop, get on the metro, change to the other line, get back on a bus, take the tram, it never ended. Same trip on organic maps was 3 changes on the metro and a 5 minute walk at the end.
Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.
Maybe its a personal experience or a US problem, but when I was in Japan Google Maps was a godsend for navigating the subway and railway system. I learned quickly to trust that system because they had rail cars coming and going constantly. Ignoring the system caused me to get onto the right train, but that train was a full service train saand stopped at each individual station. Had I waited 2 minutes as directed I would have gotten on the limited service train and arrived at my destination many minutes faster.
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Literally anything MAGA says
Someone once tole me only Western hippies believe in alternative medicine
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anything that implies they've only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
I have one for this!
I once asked someone "In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?"
I thought she'd say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
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