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Yes, this is racist. Yes, this is only trying to scare Americans into voting republican -- which 1) is a horrible tactic and 2) no single American political party is responsible for the rise of China.
That being said, it IS pretty scary for Americans to see our country fall into so much debt. America is pretty clearly going to fall into the 2nd slot in terms of world powers. Unless China is lying out their economic growth, or their is a major civil rights movement/rebellion, China will surpass America rather quickly (not that either one of those senarios is extremely likely...).
In 50 years, I definitely see China playing the role that America played in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, but instead of using armed forces (like America did), they will be able to force countries into submission by threatening economic repercussions.
China has a near monopoly on cheap production capacity. This will not change over the next decade or so, because China is still experiencing the largest migration of people OF ALL TIME as rural Chinese peasants poor into the cities and drive down the cost of labor.
China will eventually see an increase in their standard of living as they experience more success, and their labor pool starts to dry up. When this happens, Chinese will start pushing for more rights, and we will see the development of a more liberal Chinese nation. Unfortunately, this will take quite some time given the following factors: 1) the power and conservatism of the Communist Party 2) the generally passive stance of the Chinese culture toward fighting for personal rights 3) the time it will take for the average Chinese standard of living to increase to a point where they start to demand more rights
Anyway, these are merely my thoughts after a year of examining Chinese economics, politics, and culture. I am not to worried as I think the Chinese will be very practical in their enforcement of power (as they have already shown to be). I only wish they already respected individual rights as much as America.
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As wasteful as our government is, it doesn't hold a candle to the fiscal irresponsibility of China.
Wont happen.
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I like how they forget that China's stimulus packages were much larger than that of the United States. ^^
A little sad that they used my home country for fearmongering though.
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Racist because it paints Chinese to look like bad guys.
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On a serious note by 2030 the human race will need the equivalent of two other earths to sustain itself.
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You people just really sort of sicken me. The world has lost what it means to be a racist. Racism is hate, outright HATERED for a different RACE. The video wasn't HATING Chinese people, rather implying that because of the deplorable amount of money our stupid, pathetic government spends, China will own us. The bad guy here is the COMMUNIST Chinese government and the moronic American government which spends to oblivion and back.
Shut the fuck up about racism, darn it! Shut the fuck up! Racism is when blacks were forced to sit in the backs of buses, forced to drink from "colored" waterfountains and eat at "colored" restaurants. Racism is when the Irish came over here and were treated like trash. That's fucking racism. Get it straight, dammit for God's sake!
This cry of racism every time someone says something that you don't fucking like is disgusting. Like when Juan Williams (who is black, liberal, and a civil rights activist) was fired from NPR because he said he feels uncomfortable near someone wearing Muslim garb on a plane! Someone says something you dislike and you cry out "racism".
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Its funny from the outside because all we see is one evil empire afraid of another to take its place...
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Whilst it may be debatable as to whether or not it's racism, i do think it goes a fair way towards incitement of hate (which i believe is illegal) as i doubt anyone will disagree that its blatant scaremongering.
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This is not racist, it's just a funny commercial for some random website made by some students.
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Racist propaganda.... I dont think health care reform will be the downfall of our country..... Socioeconomic segregation is more likely the culprit... and dumb rich people in cowboy hats...
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This is not racism. Some people totally misunderstand racism -_-
This video is just stating something pretty obvious: we owe a shitload of money to the chinese government. If we can't pay that back they will, in a sense, "own us." You guys are taking this way too literally, I just understood the video to mean that we should remember that we paid about 5% of our budget last year on interest to debt to foreign governments and that foreign governments actually own almost 30% of the US national debt. So the message is STOP WITH THE SPENDING!!!!!!
It's definitely anti-democrat propaganda since after 2 years in power they have spent a shitload of money on health care and the stimulus.
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I'm not going to say what I want to say because it would get me banned. Jealousy is a powerful tool, which is evinced by this thread.
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On November 01 2010 02:01 Sultan.P wrote: This is not racism. Some people totally misunderstand racism -_-
This video is just stating something pretty obvious: we owe a shitload of money to the chinese government. If we can't pay that back they will, in a sense, "own us." You guys are taking this way too literally, I just understood the video to mean that we should remember that we paid about 5% of our budget last year on interest to debt to foreign governments and that foreign governments actually own almost 30% of the US national debt. So the message is STOP WITH THE SPENDING!!!!!!
It's definitely anti-democrat propaganda since after 2 years in power they have spent a shitload of money on health care and the stimulus. Thank you! Oh, God bless you for your common sense! Oh thank God.
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So are these people for removing our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan? Those are huge money drains that don't really provide tangible benefits like improving our infrastructure or health care system.
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On November 01 2010 01:57 Alexhandr wrote: You people just really sort of sicken me. The world has lost what it means to be a racist. Racism is hate, outright HATERED for a different RACE. The video wasn't HATING Chinese people, rather implying that because of the deplorable amount of money our stupid, pathetic government spends, China will own us. The bad guy here is the COMMUNIST Chinese government and the moronic American government which spends to oblivion and back.
Shut the fuck up about racism, darn it! Shut the fuck up! Racism is when blacks were forced to sit in the backs of buses, forced to drink from "colored" waterfountains and eat at "colored" restaurants. Racism is when the Irish came over here and were treated like trash. That's fucking racism. Get it straight, dammit for God's sake!
This cry of racism every time someone says something that you don't fucking like is disgusting. Like when Juan Williams (who is black, liberal, and a civil rights activist) was fired from NPR because he said he feels uncomfortable near someone wearing Muslim garb on a plane! Someone says something you dislike and you cry out "racism".
People think it is racist because they ask themselves, "If Britain was about to surpass us economically, would we have this commercial with a bunch of people drinking tea and cumpets laughing at us?"
Probably not. The commercial seems to prey on not only Americans fears of rising debt and Communism, but also the general publics fears of those scary, hard-working, cultish Chinese!!!!!!
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On November 01 2010 01:57 Alexhandr wrote: You people just really sort of sicken me. The world has lost what it means to be a racist. Racism is hate, outright HATERED for a different RACE. The video wasn't HATING Chinese people, rather implying that because of the deplorable amount of money our stupid, pathetic government spends, China will own us. The bad guy here is the COMMUNIST Chinese government and the moronic American government which spends to oblivion and back.
Shut the fuck up about racism, darn it! Shut the fuck up! Racism is when blacks were forced to sit in the backs of buses, forced to drink from "colored" waterfountains and eat at "colored" restaurants. Racism is when the Irish came over here and were treated like trash. That's fucking racism. Get it straight, dammit for God's sake!
This cry of racism every time someone says something that you don't fucking like is disgusting. Like when Juan Williams (who is black, liberal, and a civil rights activist) was fired from NPR because he said he feels uncomfortable near someone wearing Muslim garb on a plane! Someone says something you dislike and you cry out "racism". looooooooooooool how is that not blatantly racist?
It's the same as me saying "I don't feel right sitting near those damn n***ers on the bus, why can't they just sit in the back"
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We should really get behind this cradle to grave society that Britain tried. I mean, look how that worked out...And Adila, if you knew anything about government/politics, you would know that entitlements will bankrupt us LONG before and wars will.
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