Waitressboy
Well-Known Member
Yeah I figured he was but It's just a lazy generalization to make, regardless of the circumstances that term has been used for so long and in every instance it carries a negative connotation, and leaving it be allows that type of negativity to flourish, there's better ways to describe crappy systems without putting down an entire population.
I apologise if I offended anybody. I have to put a little context here, I think. As @Selaws said, I was referring to the copycats products like Aidads or Ñike or Sqny. I am from Argentina and we have a very fucked system when it comes to importation: the "original" brands are 75% from the USA and maybe a 15% from Europe. But that is not what moves the economy here: here everybody buys Aidads. And we call them "Chinese products". We even call "Chinese" to the supermarkets with low prices; they are not supermarkets for us, they are "chinos".
So in my post I was under no circumstance trying to use a derogatory term; there was just so much lost in translation. But I apologise again if anybody felt offended.