Comments on: Bought in Yellowstone – Made In China http://www.starling-travel.com/2007/05/03/bought-in-yellowstone-made-in-china/ Travel on the cheap! Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:36:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: eric cooley http://www.starling-travel.com/2007/05/03/bought-in-yellowstone-made-in-china/#comment-37179 eric cooley Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:33:57 +0000 http://www.starling-travel.com/2007/05/03/bought-in-yellowstone-made-in-china/#comment-37179 <p>Ha! The post was HARDLY "racist" - A perfectly valid point was made, an alleged indigenous artifact that was cheaply made in a sweatshop in China is not exactly representative of the American West. I simply avoid, to the best of my abilities, anything made it China. If it were say, SWEDEN or CANADA and not CHINA, would anyone cry Racism? No.</p> <p>I remember going to a hardware store and while waiting in line picked up a plastic little "Support Our Troop" US flag and looked underneath it to see MADE IN CHINA. I thought that was absurdly hilarious!</p> Ha! The post was HARDLY “racist” – A perfectly valid point was made, an alleged indigenous artifact that was cheaply made in a sweatshop in China is not exactly representative of the American West. I simply avoid, to the best of my abilities, anything made it China.
If it were say, SWEDEN or CANADA and not CHINA, would anyone cry Racism? No.

I remember going to a hardware store and while waiting in line picked up a plastic little “Support Our Troop” US flag and looked underneath it to see MADE IN CHINA. I thought that was absurdly hilarious!

]]> By: Laura Moncur http://www.starling-travel.com/2007/05/03/bought-in-yellowstone-made-in-china/#comment-1998 Laura Moncur Fri, 04 May 2007 01:04:57 +0000 http://www.starling-travel.com/2007/05/03/bought-in-yellowstone-made-in-china/#comment-1998 <p>Lonnie Hodge,</p> <p>I don't have anything against China or Chinese products, actually. When you're buying a souvenir of the area, you probably want a souvenir of the area. Not an artifact, mind you, just a souvenir that has more to do with the place you're visiting than a name printed on it.</p> <p>It's not a racist post. It's a post reminding people to buy local, even when they're not local.</p> <p>Laura Moncur</p> Lonnie Hodge,

I don’t have anything against China or Chinese products, actually. When you’re buying a souvenir of the area, you probably want a souvenir of the area. Not an artifact, mind you, just a souvenir that has more to do with the place you’re visiting than a name printed on it.

It’s not a racist post. It’s a post reminding people to buy local, even when they’re not local.

Laura Moncur

]]> By: lonniebhodge http://www.starling-travel.com/2007/05/03/bought-in-yellowstone-made-in-china/#comment-1997 lonniebhodge Fri, 04 May 2007 00:48:16 +0000 http://www.starling-travel.com/2007/05/03/bought-in-yellowstone-made-in-china/#comment-1997 <p>These are cheap trinkets, not local artifacts. Why do a racist post on China in a travel blog? </p> These are cheap trinkets, not local artifacts. Why do a racist post on China in a travel blog?

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