Tomorrow is gonna be nuts...Flurry of unconfirmed rumorsAll 14nm and below tools banned from China?All NAND/DRAM tools banned from China?All high end AI chips banned from China?High end DC CPUs like Genoa banned from China?All China fabless firms banned from EUV nodes?— Dylan Patel (@dylan522p) October 7, 2022
One of several articles on this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-china-supercomputers-idCAKBN2R223O
Yeah in Beijing and Shanghai there are streaks of elitism which were (maybe still are) pretty bad. It's the same kind of lib-brained elitism that you'd find in New Yorkers talking shit about Kentuckyans. Calling someone a 农村人 is contextually like calling someone a hick or a hillbilly.
I think it's starting to get better now because there's a trend of young people on social media blogging about their experiences leaving city jobs and getting into farming getting big followings, but you know how these things are - it takes a long time to get over prejudices.
As for whether or not it's a slur, I think it's one of those words that is contextually positive, neutral, or a slur. Chinese is a much higher context language than English, but the best analogy I can think of is "black". There's a big difference between "she is black" and "of course she stole that, she is black."
Yeah in Beijing and Shanghai there are streaks of elitism which were (maybe still are) pretty bad. It's the same kind of lib-brained elitism that you'd find in New Yorkers talking shit about Kentuckyans. Calling someone a 农村人 is contextually like calling someone a hick or a hillbilly.
I think it's starting to get better now because there's a trend of young people on social media blogging about their experiences leaving city jobs and getting into farming getting big followings, but you know how these things are - it takes a long time to get over prejudices.
As for whether or not it's a slur, I think it's one of those words that is contextually positive, neutral, or a slur. Chinese is a much higher context language than English, but the best analogy I can think of is "black". There's a big difference between "she is black" and "of course she stole that, she is black."