How can we be so arrogant (towards the Chinese)?  By  prodigit (Read 12,839 times)

Xiaou would tell us we should be thankfull that we were born here and that most of us don't really give proper consideration to how lucky we are.

Although we worked for the same company I worked in a secure and confidential area while he worked on civilian open contracts. We still included him in our team meetings and only excluded him when we had to discuss confidential matters. We would joke with him that we had to switch over to the Dark Side and he would take his leave graciously. We included him when we went out to lunch for an all you can eat Pizza feast or hit a local Pasta Palace and he would bring us for family treatment at local Chinese buffetts where we would get preferential treatment. Special trays that were not on the buffett line would be brought to the table and tea would be served in China pots instead of stainless steel.

I had him jumping for joy when I asked for his help with geometry to resolve a coding issue that he had failed on and had been reassigned to me. We did digital mapping and some of the cartographers had created many maps using geometric patterns that the client did not want so they were not acceptable for delivery. You should have seen the look on his face when we applied his math and my code to the first map and all the incorrect lines got wide and turned a light transparent gray and a then bright thin red line started to be drawn down the center of the light gray ones using plain lines with no geometric patterns, arcs or figures. When the drawing action was done then the grey lines dissapeared and the red lines went back to the original colors and attributes maintaining the database connections and went back to the correct map layers. I really surprised him when I sent the programming manager a note crediting him for his contribution towards solving the problem so he got part of the bonus attached to getting this done and saveing the company many thousands of dollars.

I see him jumping up and down like a small child in my office, all 6' 3" of him, like it was yesterday everytime I look and the Oriental Figure he brought back from China for me that he said exemplified my character as a mentor who took him under his wing for which he was very gratefull. A very nice person whom I deeply respect as an individual.

The trouble is when American companies switch to Chinese workers (at much less cost to themselves) the price of a given item STAYS THE SAME. So where is the "competitive pricing"?

Actually it's about 7 1/2 cents PER DOLLAR of product sold. (that's why Exxon pulls in roughly 9 billion per quarter.)

I don't mind cheap underwear from the Chinese, but I personally don't want to trust them with my life with their inferior parts as i head down the highway at 65mph.

I've ran my 50cc @ 50MPH, my 127cc @60mph, my 150cc@63MPH, and my 260cc @ 80MPH for a few 1 hour trips, and more, without problems.
Each one of them I've ridden at least once on a 4 hour trip, some even doing 5 or 6 hour trips on, with varying speeds.

Even chinese products make noises or give hints when something is not right. They don't just simply explode while you're riding 60 on the highway!

Wow! A whole hour? That's impressive!

A four hour trip? That's dang near bulletproof!

Those chinometers really make you fly

yeah, it does not surprise me... It may not look a lot, but 4 to 6 hours on a china bike, is a long time! I know few people who can ride longer, but it's not a pleasant experience.