Green Day has a song called American Idiot.
Not surprisingly, there are indeed a lot of American idiots. Not that I deny that there are plenty idiots in China too. But…
So I saw this news saying that two Chinese are suing Apple for patent infringement in China. Most Americans are very negative about this news. They were like, since when China has any intellectual property? Or, this is so ironic because American government has been pushing Chinese to protect IPs. That’s more or less okay coming from a normal American because yes America has more modern IPs than China. No doubt about that. But Chinese may well have invented something before Americans do, even when China is technologically much less developed.
However what’s shocking is this comment I saw:
Now here’s a lawsuit worth pursuing:
I’m a descendant of Marco Polo, and you Chinese stole the “pasta noodle” idea from him.
First of all, myth is, people thought Marco Polo learned about noodles in China and brought back to Italy then there is pasta. More convincing evidence suggest that the Arabs introduced string like food to Sicily when they took control of that area. Nevertheless, so far the oldest evidence clearly proved that Chinese were making these string like food about 2000 BC.
News like this and the comments of Americans frequently showed hostile towards China and the Chinese. Unfortunately the Chinese media have largely neglected this. It is time for the Chinese in China to know the truth. Luckily this just get started earlier this year.
Anyway, maybe the falling economy of USA and the western world would help some idiots to look at this world in a different way, soon.