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Q: After living in China do you appreciate things made in your contry more?
I certainly appreciate them alot more than before and encourage everyone to spend a little more and buy national, or even better, local stuff. Nothing hit me more than when I started taking Chinese vitamins that gave me the runs and made my health worse. Also when I went to get a blood hormone test and being told I was find, only to arrive home and get the same test and being told that I was dangerously hypothyroid.
Silence. I miss deep, profound silence occasionally interrupted by birdsong, as opposed to a gaggle of shrill, screeching and wailing women on iPhones, hoiking male sputum-induced hacking, honkingly passive-aggressive maniacal demolition derby "drivers" in overpriced vehicles with a vacuous wife staring into her passenger visor mirror and a brat not wearing a safety belt lolling about in the rear picking its nose and wiping it on the faux-leather interior.
Batteries is the one that gets me. I don't use them much any more, with the exception being in my computer mouse. Batteries bought at home will last for at least 6 months, but if I get them in China it's not uncommon for them to be shot in less than a week! Seriously, how can they be so bad? Granted, they are cheaper. I blame the consumers for being so short sighed that they'd rather save a bit of money and get cheap batteries rather than demanding ones that last much much longer and only cost a little more.
This is one of my "don't get me started" topics (you might have noticed). I'm triggered now and could easily be ranting about this for days!
robaird:
I recommend IKEA battery packets. They will shortly be online for purchase in the Middle Kingdom-of-Douchebaggery
BHGAL:
blame america .. past expiry dates before sale are returned to China and put on sale with a smple new date
I had my rant about pens recently so I'm triggered too!
The one thing that I really miss is good bread. To go into a bakery and everything on display is a recipe for diabetes doesn't warm my cockles.
I understand that the baked goods are made for Chinese tastes and this is China but is some decent bread too much to ask for? In fact, I believe that our Chinese friends would like it too. I would kill for some multi grain bread that isn't sweet.
"Consume less, consume smarter" is a real social movement in Germany these days that increasingly more people are adhering to, to promote German made products which while being more expensive than China made products, are of much higher quality and last infinitely longer.
The idea also promotes a better environment since people buy less (crappy) stuff and consequently throw less of it away.
robaird:
I suggest you peruse the theory and practice of pervasive obsolescence. It's only one hundred years old.
People.
The ones made in China seem to be defective.
robaird:
Come now, China manufactures one product more consistently and effectively than nearly any other nation, namely people. Shame on you.
I just miss bread and more trustworthy food. I miss small stuff sometimes too but that's just a feeling of where I come from. No need to make any comparison I guess.
Silence. I miss deep, profound silence occasionally interrupted by birdsong, as opposed to a gaggle of shrill, screeching and wailing women on iPhones, hoiking male sputum-induced hacking, honkingly passive-aggressive maniacal demolition derby "drivers" in overpriced vehicles with a vacuous wife staring into her passenger visor mirror and a brat not wearing a safety belt lolling about in the rear picking its nose and wiping it on the faux-leather interior.
I deal daily with Chinese manufacturers. I miss integrity, justified professional pride, timeliness, forward thinking, consequence awareness, openness, etc. Mostly I miss the optimism I had in the beginning that China will change for the better.
