Every country that moves up the value ladder goes through that phase. First the British looked down on the Germans and the US, then the three of them on Japan, then on Korea and Taiwan, then China. Now I guess it’s mostly Malaysia and Thailand; the ‘Chinese = low tech’ stigma is mostly a boomer thing.
Chinese manufacturers probably have it slightly easier because China itself is such a huge market, so most of their sales would be domestic. But I wonder if people from Shenzhen or Shanghai will look down at products made in, say, Hebei.
The stereotype used to be that Chinese products were of lower quality than Korean / Japanese / German equivalents. I don’t think most people cared why, although one explanation I’ve heard is that China enforced a stricter QC than my country, so ones that fail inspection would be sent here. (Also many Chinese products were brought here through legally grey means, so there might simply have been no QC from our side.)
Every country that moves up the value ladder goes through that phase. First the British looked down on the Germans and the US, then the three of them on Japan, then on Korea and Taiwan, then China. Now I guess it’s mostly Malaysia and Thailand; the ‘Chinese = low tech’ stigma is mostly a boomer thing.
Chinese manufacturers probably have it slightly easier because China itself is such a huge market, so most of their sales would be domestic. But I wonder if people from Shenzhen or Shanghai will look down at products made in, say, Hebei.
Isn’t the stereotype more about selling intentionally inferior products, not that it’s low tech?
Like using cheaper materials and then adding a weight to make it seem less cheap
The stereotype used to be that Chinese products were of lower quality than Korean / Japanese / German equivalents. I don’t think most people cared why, although one explanation I’ve heard is that China enforced a stricter QC than my country, so ones that fail inspection would be sent here. (Also many Chinese products were brought here through legally grey means, so there might simply have been no QC from our side.)