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> Not sure if it is nationalism forcing people to be hostile towards China, Russia, India and anything not from the West.

I don't see a lot of negativity towards India on HN. Many people here are just anti-authoritarian, which hacker community has been from the beginning.



I'm oversensitive to this and my comment is sort of off-topic, but I've seen a fair bit of confusion, especially on China, where people fail to distinguish between the authoritarian government, nationals, and people of ethnic descent. This confusion has led to some awful comments, like "I obfuscate my code before sharing with my Chinese colleagues because they are here to steal." What does that even mean? Chinese by name? By accent? By passport and secret party membership? I'd almost prefer to see tropes, e.g. "Russian hacking" or "Chinese social credit score" than thinly-veiled attacks or blatant over-generalizations on entire populations.




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