The trouble is Paul, that we, the consumer, doesn't - can't, know the difference. dee
On 6 Dec 2009, at 13:10, 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
