she's from PRC..
sadly, today when i was going to work, i was listening to BBC World Service.. the story was about how about 17,000 officials in PRC were punished for corruption...
a chinese dude talking to the BBC was saying that it was due to the communist themselves who caused this.. when they destroyed the religious practices, and then replaced it with Maoism or Maxism or whatever the crap communism which no one believes anymore, there is a moral vacuum.. so most PRC people have no conscience and will do anything to earn a quick buck...
which is why the rampant corruption in PRC..
thing is, now that PRC is economically on the rise, and they have their own products out there in the market, even their own products are suffering from the hands of pirates as their own market is flooded with knock-offs of their home-grown brands