Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "China Fakes Trains to Show Off its Infrastructure!" video.

  1. "The Chinese seldom lie with consistency, and never with ingenuity. Their production aims at quantity, not quality. Current American fiction ideas about the sinister cunning of the Chinese with their matchlessly clever deception is laughable after a slight amount of first-hand experience. They could rarely fool a bright ten-year-old after he had been in the country long enough to get the hang of their style." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China)
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  2. "A people who show surprising sensitivity of feeling and at the same time appall us with their seeming crudity of instinct, accomplished in craftsmanship yet living ever in houses falling to pieces, alert in business yet unable to make a success or large business themselves, quoting proverbs about truth in every breath and not to be believed in anything, always exasperating us and then mollifying our exasperation with a talent all their own, always busy and never getting anything done - four hundred million of them, upon a background of green paddies seen through slow rain, swirling yellow rivers with bobbing junks and rattan sails, above and through all the smell of a damp moldiness amid spiced cooking - that is China and the Chinese." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US consul who lived in 1930s China) "It is possible to say almost anything about the Chinese and have the statement true, and yet with proper modifications decidedly untrue. For example, the Chinese seem to do more washing and slopping around with pails of water everywhere than any other race on the globe, and at the same time they are among the dirtiest people to be found. They certainly approach the championship for laziness, and yet their claim to the title of most industrious is hardly open to dispute. They are perhaps the most unreliable and tricky to do business with of any large racial group. And yet under certain conditions a Chinese will make incredible sacrifices to meet his obligations, and die of humiliation if he can't." WAYS THAT ARE DARK: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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  3. ​ @laucon11 majority of people aren't fooled
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  4. Everything about face is a farce. Just another way for a lot of Chinese to justify their bad actions and their inability to change. Justifying is as a "cultural" byproduct doesn't change this fact. Lying is lying.
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