"This survey was commissioned by HDTS and conducted by Survata, a web-based survey company."
Yeah, we all know how reliable those are.
3 In 10 Americans Will Not Knowingly Buy Chinese-Owned Brands
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#123 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.
There's a difference between a Chinese-owned brand and a Chinese-made product.
I think most Americans are fine buying Chinese-made goods but Chinese brands are seen as being of inferior quality.
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#133 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.
There's a difference between a Chinese-owned brand and a Chinese-made product. I think most Americans are fine buying Chinese-made goods but Chinese brands are seen as being of inferior quality.
As if Chinese made goods are not perceived as inferior. Claims are just claims after all.
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#14"This survey was commissioned by HDTS and conducted by Survata, a web-based survey company. " Yeah, we all know how reliable those are.
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#15"Knowingly" seems to be the key word here: if you surveyed most Americans (or consumers elsewhere, for that matter) on how many of them know the country of origin for most brands, the results would be very hit or miss. I don't think too many people realize or remember that Samsung is Korean, nor that Nokia is Finnish. And to a concrete example of a Chinese company, I think hardly anyone knows Lenovo's origins.
The article even points out as much: in many cases, the Chinese brands go out of their way to do nothing that would reveal themselves to be Chinese brands. And by the time the brand is successful in a country, I'd suspect that brand's origin will matter very little.
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#16I 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.
People pay lip service to wanting to buy locally made, but they don't vote with the only thing that matters, the willingness to pay more. As long as consumers demand the absolute lowest price, regardless of the exploitation required to achieve it, things will be made in poorer countries with an impoverished workforce.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 utter…
> I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu,
?? They're just people.
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#18I 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.
Prices are never going to be matched, and why should they? Things made in China are cheap simply because they have a huge population of people desperate to work, so they can exploit this and pay them a fraction of an American salary and have them work under much worse conditions. Until you are prepared to work for the same money in the same conditions, don't expect the cost of something made domestically to ever be the same as if it were made in China.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 utter…
> I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu, ?? They're just people.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 utter…
> I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu, ?? They're just people.
Sure, but they probably feel more a connection to people locally. This is reflected by the psychological concept of propinquity. It's a powerful influence in our world.