On 18 Jun 2005 21:38:06 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:

In oups.com "Matthew
Ota" wrote:

Our American culture, IMHO is too Euro-centric. Most Americans cannot
differentiate between any Asian counry or culture. This is a good
example.


Not really; the poster was a Canadian and a troll.

Of course it was a troll, I wanted people's
opinions on the subject and the best way to
elicit them is to make the people who buy from the
communist slave owners feel bad or at least defensive.
Which I succeeded in doing, I'd say.
But don't worry; You can assuage your guilt with the
often repeated old saw that "communism and tyranny in China
is being repealed by the capitalism" they are now experimenting
with.
-Rich