> why is japan associated with high quality, ancient tradition, and honor. probably a lot to do with its earlier westernization. japan basically aped its entire culture from china for centuries and had no pride in itself so when the white man showed up and was obviously cooler than the chinese they immediately started aping white people's shit instead. but also japan benefited a lot from shady american manufacturing practices. i suspect this was going on in all industries, but american car manufacturers in particular got extremely good at making cars that would break down just after the warranty was up. by the time people realized nips actually managed to make a low cost car that lasted 10+ years, american manufacturers were behind and eventually just gave up.  > whereas china is associated with worst quality, modern folly, and lies. chinks were set up by america to divide control over global manufacturing because america realized it wouldn't be able to maintain its crazy market share forever. to achieve this china basically had to go through the renaissance, enlightenment and industrial revolution all in a single generation which lead to insane death tolls and now allows them to mass produce a ton of low quality items.
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