3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands
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3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands
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#23 In 10 Americans claim they Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands
I suspect the reality is wildly different to the survey result - after all, "made in China" is hardly a secret.
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#3I don't care what country owns the brand as long as it is dependable and well made. Chinese products have a big stigma of being cheaply made. There are also a lot of reports of products from China containing unhealthy levels of lead. It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country, but until prices are matched, it would be a while until that happens.
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#4I don't care what country owns the brand as long as it is dependable and well made. Chinese products have a big stigma of being cheaply made. There are also a lot of reports of products from China containing unhealthy levels of lead. It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country, but until prices are matched, it would be a while until that happens.
It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country
Why?
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#5I don't care what country owns the brand as long as it is dependable and well made. Chinese products have a big stigma of being cheaply made. There are also a lot of reports of products from China containing unhealthy levels of lead. It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country, but until prices are matched, it would be a while until that happens.
It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country Why?
If nothing else, shortened supply chains mean more responsive product development, and in general help promote the general notion of localized/efficient goods production and distribution.
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#6I don't care what country owns the brand as long as it is dependable and well made. Chinese products have a big stigma of being cheaply made. There are also a lot of reports of products from China containing unhealthy levels of lead. It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country, but until prices are matched, it would be a while until that happens.
It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country Why?
Presumably because they would like to support people closer to home. International commerce is very important for exchange of ideas and cultures and is enriching for all involved so long as the makers of the goods aren't being exploited as is sometimes the case.
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#7I don't care what country owns the brand as long as it is dependable and well made. Chinese products have a big stigma of being cheaply made. There are also a lot of reports of products from China containing unhealthy levels of lead. It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country, but until prices are matched, it would be a while until that happens.
It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country Why?
There is a nice psychological feeling that some people feel when they are connected in some way to the manufacturer of goods which they consume.
Personally, I enjoy the experience of purchasing bread from my local independent baker, as compared to purchasing a factory-made loaf at the grocery store.
This doesn't necessarily mean the good has to be made in the person's home country; I think a similar feeling is derived after traveling to a brewery in another country, for example, and then drinking that same brew when you get back home. (In which case, problems like this might even been partly attributed to a lack of tourism to the exporting country!)
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country Why?
If nothing else, shortened supply chains mean more responsive product development, and in general help promote the general notion of localized/efficient goods production and distribution.
To some extent yes, but advances have got to the point that spatial separation isn't nearly the handicap it used to be. Take Apple manufacturing for instance. They hardly ever carry an excess inventory.
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#9I don't care what country owns the brand as long as it is dependable and well made. Chinese products have a big stigma of being cheaply made. There are also a lot of reports of products from China containing unhealthy levels of lead. It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country, but until prices are matched, it would be a while until that happens.
It would be great if most of the products being sold are made in your home country Why?
Because I'd rather support the economy of Wisconsin than the economy of Chengdu. I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu, and then there is the whole militarily adverse repressive communist regime thing.
Beyond that, I have no desire to contribute to the externalization of pollution, health and safety risks, etc, that come from exporting production overseas.
I think globalization is utterly ridiculous when countries are allowed to engage in a "race to the bottom" as China has by destroying its environment and poisoning its people to be more competitive against Western nations that aren't willing to do those things.
I'm happy to pay a little more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/business/29shoe.html?ei=50....
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#10Of course the same 3/10 Americans will not flinch when they buy Chinese manufactured iPods and other gadgets. Since, China doesn't own the brand. It's clearly not about nationalism, but about a general distaste for China. The same Americans will probably snag a BMW or a Mercedes without a second thought.
For those of you defending Chinese made goods, that's understandable. I don't think anyone should take a nationalist viewpoint on these issues.
However, you should note that political prisoners in China's Laogai are often manufacturing some of the Chinese goods you consume, which are not labeled as such, and made in violation of Chinese law. A quick google turns up this: http://laogai.org/system/files/pdf/inland_web.pdf More googling will inevitably turn up that products such as sesame street (tm) slippers, toilet paper, and other big box store staples are made this way. See also: http://laogai.org/blog/laogai-museum-window-china%E2%80%99s-...
Though the term "Laogai" is dated and China stopped referring to them that way in the 90s, a documentary by Al-Jazeera English (Which got the news network EXPELLED from China) makes me think a lot different:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/...
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/05/201257195...