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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 1318973, member: 15019&quot;]Has our world become that uptight and politically correct?</p><p><br /></p><p>He didn&#039;t say &quot;All Chinese are counterfeiters&quot; or &quot;Chinese cause problems in other countries&quot;. He simply said that it&#039;s more likely a counterfeit because China has a history of prolific counterfeiters and most of the Singaporean population has close ties with China. </p><p>It&#039;s just following a string of logic to a probable conclusion (like, if A=B and B=C, then A=C).</p><p>Doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s correct, but it doesn&#039;t mean the person has any ill will or racist feelings behind saying it either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here in NYC we have a Chinatown, and most people who live here know that it&#039;s the place to go for anything counterfeit. Those people are not stereotyping or being racist, they are just going by the facts of reality around them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess we&#039;ve gone so off topic that it&#039;s best this thread was locked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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