I think the Detroit automakers have the same mentality. It's almost like there's this racism belief that the Japanese could never have figured something out that Westerners haven't.
GM proceeded to ignore everything that worked at that plant (and still does, nevermind what that article says). They flat out refused to learn from Toyota even when they saw it upfront.
We live in a racist world. You either accept it or be blind to many of the problems of the world.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125229...
Incidentally, it really bothers me that you play the racism card so easily and casually without evidence. Please stop doing that.