Much of one's prejudiced judgments come from experience. It can't all be
a "not from here" mentality. A couple of decades ago everyone (except
those from Detroit) judged that Japanese cars were much high quality
than American made ones. Most, including myself, still feel that way,
and any car issue of Consumer reports will support that view. With China
we have had a lot of bad experiences. Melamine tainted food products
where melamine plastic monomer was substituted for milk, have sickened
and killed hundreds of people and pets and animals worldwide. On top of
that every year we have more toys that have to be recalled because they
are painted with lead paint, which is both illegal and immoral. As
grandparents we have had recalls on toys we bought for our grandchildren
on Fischer Price, Thomas the Train (even the toys they replaced the
leaded ones with had lead in them), and several other brands. That kind
of experience year after year definitely adds to the notion that many
Chinese goods, especially food or toys is substandard if not downright
toxic. The lead paint fiasco is particularly irritating to many people
because of laws it caused Congress to pass effectively made it illegal
to sell or even give used children's clothes away. We had a company that
went out of business because the Chinese lead problem had Congress
legislate a maximum amount of lead that any item for a child or teenager
must not have more than a certain maximum amount of lead even if
necessary for its operation, thus turning their huge inventory of
children's battery operated motor scooters, ATVs and other things into
worthless garbage since they have to have lead acid batteries to work.
Marshall
Paul Bond wrote:
I’m always disheartened when I read things like this. I sell product
around the world but I live in Thailand (though I am English), and I
think we have a spectacular dialogue with customers and repeat
business. Yet many times when someone asks where we’re based you can
hear the crestfallen sigh part way around the world. If someone said
xyz company, or individual xyz from a certain country I could
understand it, but why label a country? When I lived in England I used
to order green tea extract from China by the pallet. I hear American
(there’s a large ex-pat community here) people particularly (though
not exclusively) complaining about Chinese product (much like I
remember as a kid, adults in England complaining about “made in
Taiwan”). My experience with Chinese manufacturers has always been
excellent. If you want something cheap then that’s what you get. If
you want a quality product then you can have that too, but to get
excellent, nearly free, and made your home country all together is a
very tall order, at least with the economic differences we have in the
world at present. I too have a very biased opinion about generalities
here (from when I tried to start a business with a friend that would
help local people), and was frustrated with the difference in our
thinking, but I’ve learned that it’s not a blanket I can apply to
everyone before I’ve even met them.
I don’t mean to make this sound like a rant, so I apologise if it
comes across as less than cordial, but I just hope in this day and age
when we’re going through such a difficult shift together, we could put
the nationalism behind us and focus on making things better as
sovereign beings.
Thank you for your time. Be well.
Paul
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Some countries export products that do not match their claims and are
made with dangerous shortcuts. OR they just plain lie.
So, I avoid anything marketed from India, Italy, Thailand, and Mexico.
These countries are noted for deceptive marketing strategies or plain
just mismarking stuff. Thailand sells a lot of silver jewelry with 925
stamped on it but turns out always to be silver plated over a base metal.
So, I'll pass on this dubious stuff.
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