NancyLebovitz comments on March 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong

4 Post author: ArisKatsaris 01 March 2014 03:49PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (42)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 March 2014 03:50:58PM 2 points [-]

Short Online Texts Thread

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 March 2014 02:53:47PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: gwern 02 March 2014 04:53:00PM *  4 points [-]

Not a bad writeup but I think he's being really premature on some of his assessments like the racism and xenophobia. Those are things that a tourist (and he still is a tourist, after 2 weeks) may not be exposed to immediately. The stereotypes are being reported by people who generally have been there a lot longer and have had more opportunities to learn about things like gossip behind their backs, glass ceilings, how they're treated in rare circumstances like emergencies, etc.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 March 2014 02:22:14AM 1 point [-]

It looked to me as though he'd been warned that just being in China for a visit would be unpleasant because he'd be disliked on sight, and that turned out not to be true.