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Thread: Will China become the No.1 innovative nation in the world 10 years later?
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[quote=GUEST50129,248555][Note: the following is my limited opinion, not back by any stats or solid references] In general, it seems the average laobaixing Chinese person seems to lack foresight and logical reasoning (favoring to explain their world in terms of "luck" and "ghosts"). And I DO NOT completely attribute this to the aforementioned rusty saw of the education system. Of course, the education system has an influence, but I think the primary factor is the cultural of the Han Chinese. For innovation to occur, team work is a prerequisite. i.e working with people other than your family. However, Han culture seems to promote: "I'm the best, my family is the best. If you're not my family, you don't exist in my world." One can clearly see the team spirit of the Han as represented by their football team. Chinese is too broad of a term, I would guess that any real innovation that occurred in China's history could be attributed to copying Indians, Tibetans, Mongolians (..the Yuan dynasty anyone?), the Muslims (as represented by the Uyghrs and Hui minority peoples) or the Manchus (Qing dynasty anyone?). And as a copy, inferior to the original, thus perhaps losing effectiveness. And if something actually was innovated, when it comes to function, it falls flat. Let's examine this "gunpowder" example that keeps popping up. The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks (in order to scare away bad luck producing ghosts), whereas the western world used gunpowder just as that, as a military technology. And of the technological marvels of Xian, granted, the bingmayong (terra cota soldiers) are very impressive artifacts, but, again in the context of use, how do they stack up with something like the Roman aqueducts?[/quote]
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