GG> Heck, most yanks think they already have WD.

BL> It's not World Dominance so much as a perception that they *are*
BL> the world, and that what they want, the World must want. It's scary.

GG> You aint wrong there.

Its also largely true, the vast bulk of
the world does indeed want what they want.

GG> When I told her about motorbike delivery and commented about how
GG> efficient it is, I knew I'd blown it for her. Her whole image of
GG> US World Domination was shattered and she never spoke to me again.

Or maybe she had sussed you out and noticed you werent worth talking to.

BL> At a higher level, yank engineers and businessmen
BL> know that Asia is kicking the shit out of them,

Pigs arse they do, Billy Gates sure doesnt. Or the other
4K millionaires he produced in the process either. There
aint been a single example of any asian ever doing anything
remotely like that. Or anyone else in the entire world either.

BL> but they have a hurt attitude to this,
BL> as if it is beyond their understanding.

Sure, plenty of fools who havent even noticed that virtually
every single full commercialisation of technology thats
happened since the war has happened in the US first does.

Plenty have something a tad more viable between their ears too tho.

What was the last asian piece of software you used regularly ?  Funny that.

GG> The area in Michigan I'm from is heavily dependant on
GG> General Motors in terms of its economy as about 80% of the
GG> population work for GM (at outrageous wages too, I might add).

And the US invented that form of mass production of cars. Sure,
the world moved on eventually, but that ALWAYS happens. Precisely the
same thing happened with say cotton mills in england, eventually that
moved on to other parts of the world which had lower labor costs etc.

GG> Anyway, during the bleak times when people weren't buying GM
GG> cars but were going for the cheaper Japanese imports, it's amazing
GG> how much outright hatred there was for the Japanese in general...

Sure, the people affected usually do get pretty pissed off.
It would be a FUCKING sight more surprising if they DIDNT.

The same thing happened in the 30s when lots of agricultural
labor had their employment go down the tubes too.

GG> the politicians played up on it too...

And this surprises you does it ?  Thats what they are THERE for.

GG> "You're in this sorry situation because of 'them'..."

They were right too. The US took its eye off the ball, particularly
with the car industry, and only had themselves to blame.

GG> The only thing different about the tensions between Americans
GG> vs Japanese and Blacks vs Whites was that there were no local
GG> Japanese people to discriminate against in person.

Utterly mindless bullshit. Bet they didnt smash
all their Japanese made domestic electronics items.
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