Xbox One China. FULL DETAILS EMERGE. MS aren't messing about.

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Goatseye said:

binary solo said:

 

Possibly not. But I wonder if anyone has actually done an analysis of Japanese products vs other to see if there is any cultural bias against Japanese products in China.

I'm pretty sure Japanese cars sell well over there.

And also off-topic. How many times have you seen Asian people driving American cars?

I find it quite odd that 99% of the times I see them driving, the car is an Asian make or rarely European and once in a blue moon an American car.

Well here if it's not a Jeep Cherokee, or for a short while a PT Cruiser, it's mostly rednecks and Yank-o-philes who drive American muscle cars. The vast majority of the population, of whatever race and including expat Americans, drive Asian or European cars.

I think anti-Japanese sentiment stopped being a factor for certain people here in about the 1980s (because of WWII). But Japan was never a hostile occupying force, so it was only ever a very small proportion of our population who had first hand experience of Japanese WWII oppression. In China it was a different story so the cultural memory may be more ingrained and widespread. But good, in general, if the Chinese people have left the past in the past.

Of course old wounds can easily be reopened and who knows what the dispute over those little islands triangulated by China, Japan and Korea will do for cultural relations, and with Shinzo Abe declaring the Japanese pacifist constitution null and void.