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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
It's also geopolitically impossible. The regime of the People's Republic of China would never allow it.
The Chinese Communist Party has a very simple survival strategy: appease it's citizens by making them rich by selling useless trinkets to fill the attics, basements, garages, and garbage dumps of Americans.
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It seems like there's two types of Chinese person. Let's call them
- Legitimate Chinamen
- All the rest
The number twos have no interest in heritage. The vocabulary needed to discuss heritage, legitimate Chinamen think, comprises words the rest don't understand. Why not? Because the number twos don't even know those words exist.
That means they fill their
minds with junk that breaks the first time you use it, along with their
attics. Do Chinese houses have attics? I thought they lived in drawers. Maybe I'm thinking of sweatshops with fences around the roof so they don't jump off to kill themselves. For others, the few, words describing heritage do exist AND they understand them. For example "highly important and extremely rare 900 year-old Ru guanyao dish with characteristic intense blue-green glaze and ice-crackle from the Northern Song Dynasty" is unintelligible to number twos. They'd understand some of the words, sure, but the significance of Northern Song dynasty kilns operating from 960-1127 in Ruzhou would be entirely lost on them. Those words do not appear in the sentence but represent facts signified by the words that DO appear in the sentence.
Legitimate Chinamen can enjoy a $40,000,000 bowl in their Legitimate Chinese home: all the rest get rich in plastic. But where did that $40m come from?