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Originally Posted by redpoint5
People are unsure what to believe about Chinese slavery, maybe by extent and implementation more than a binary yes/no existence of it. Worse, they don't care.
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The average Joe doesn't really care about Chinese "semi-slavery" as it's often mentioned, yet industrial outsourcing from China is just some sort of modern equivalent to the so-called "coolie trade" which was used as a replacement for black slavery. Both a contemporary Chinese factory worker and the ancient Chinese, Indian and Indonesian workers sent mostly to the Caribbean and some African countries (mostly British and Dutch colonies) endured harsh working conditions and were subjected to all sort of mistreatment, yet nobody seems to care about them.