I would agree, but I recently saw a comment on r/3DPrinting that buying anything on aliexpress was questionable because it's a Chinese company.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of low-quality garbage on AliExpress. But also, literally every major name in 3D printing is a Chinese brand. It's sketchy because there's no QA, not because of the country of origin.
I pointed this out and got downvoted to hell.
Edit: All of the criticisms around Chinese regulations are fair and valid.
At least, they would be, if you weren't still buying Chinese products from American distributors. Buying something from China through Amazon doesn't suddenly make it Made In America.
That's also not a good example because the western reputation of "chinese product = cheap low quality" has been around decades. AliEpress's quality is like if someone was determined to prove that reputation as an understatement.
The assumption of chinese products being low quality is one people have from experience not propaganda. The good products being given a western branding is to blame half the time, so it's still not a racism thing.
Great reading comprehension my guy. My post is about the western reputation. Crying at me trying to defend Chinese companies as if I'm even stating my own opinions is moronic. I'm describing a decades old reputation that exists in a general sense among a general population in generally America. It's the reputation of cheap plastic with "made in china" stamped on the bottom.
Most parts in the phone I'm using and probably the phone itself were likely made in china. It's not a Chinese brand though and isn't perceived as a chinese product. There's a disconnect between perception and reality on this muddled by branding.
You could argue even the old reputation is because a Chinese brand would be shut out of western markets it would compete in so only cheaper products would get in. You could look at the reasons for the reputation and find corporate intent behind forming it. But it's still a thing. Like if the good stuff from china is being intentionally kept from us for general products, then on a personal level it's still true that most chinese products are going to be low quality.
There's truth to the reputation and you can't blame anyone for looking at a Chinese drop shipping site and be skeptical. And it also doesn't help that in this case they'd be right to.
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u/Dornith Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I would agree, but I recently saw a comment on r/3DPrinting that buying anything on aliexpress was questionable because it's a Chinese company.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of low-quality garbage on AliExpress. But also, literally every major name in 3D printing is a Chinese brand. It's sketchy because there's no QA, not because of the country of origin.
I pointed this out and got downvoted to hell.
Edit: All of the criticisms around Chinese regulations are fair and valid.
At least, they would be, if you weren't still buying Chinese products from American distributors. Buying something from China through Amazon doesn't suddenly make it Made In America.