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Undertoad · 06-23-2006, 10:53 AM

And another thing. Let's be honest. It's really anti-Americanism, isn't it? The VW drivers don't mind that a German company comes in, has them build the cars there, and converts everything to Euros at the end of the day. But they do mind if the Chinese make goods for dead cheap and ship directly to Brazil and sell it under a US brand and convert to dollars at the end of the day.

They don't mind if the soda is corporately made and corporately marketed, they just want the brand name to be the nationalistic style they want.

So help me, I can't tell the difference between this attitude and plain old vanilla xenophobia.

06-23-2006, 10:53 AM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	And another thing. Let's be honest. It's really anti-Americanism, isn't it? The VW drivers don't mind that a German company comes in, has them build the cars there, and converts everything to Euros at the end of the day. But they do mind if the Chinese make goods for dead cheap and ship directly to Brazil and sell it under a US brand and convert to dollars at the end of the day. They don't mind if the soda is corporately made and corporately marketed, they just want the brand name to be the nationalistic style they want. So help me, I can't tell the difference between this attitude and plain old vanilla xenophobia.