You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

NancyLebovitz comments on March 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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: 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.