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Brent P

You need to go back and reread what I said and please try to not insert what you think I might be saying. I never said they were coming from zero. But continuing the photographic comments the Japanese camera industry pre-war was producing at best average to below average quality cameras that did incorporate some german design concepts. Post war they used features developed by Zeiss, Leitz and Ihagee, then enhanced it but most importantly they looked at what customers wanted. The German and American camera companies when confronted with the storm from the east initially ignored it. When the new products became impossible to ignore they made the mistake of buttuming they knew what was best for customers and continued to fiddle with outdated designs until it was too late. It is a clbuttic response to rapid change by old line companies.

Please don't minimize with simple minded statements what was then a significant part of the U.S. industrial base by 1850. Large industrial companies were turning out record numbers of above average to high quality mechanical watch movements and other components using standardized production techniques. There are numerous comparable stories in other U.S. industries during that period, but the watchmaking industry is particularly easy to comprehend.

So what. During the early part of the 19th century american clock and furniture makers were well known for churning out great numbers of cheap but good quality case goods. They also developed many styles of their own, but as we all know many of those designs borrowed heavily from established concepts used in europe.

Using the work of someone else is nothing new - car makers are famous for following one another lemming-like for the latest design.

Whether the Japanese were rightfully planted into stopping the war or the Chinese finally decided to reverse Chairman Mao's idiotic plan for turning China backward is pretty much irrelevant. Both had to build an industrial base, redesign the structure of business ownership but they had the capability to become a known producer of quality goods. Japan went through a shakeout with many of it's early consumer goods that were absolutely abysmal - just ask the owner of a Toyopet. But they learned from those mistakes, just as the Chinese are learning. If you think that the quality of Chinese goods is typically very poor then please explain how all of our electronic wonders with chinese components keep on running.

Please think about what you are saying before making that statement again.

You mioght be surprised at what consbreastutes a made-in-america product. Country of origin labels are notoriously loose. Using the Nike example they are able to plaster made-in-america labels on certain shoes because they were able to come up with enough advertising costs to meet the cost of content test. Never mind that the shoe itself was made somewhere outside the USA. The famous "Swiss Watch" that we have all been taught to love only has to have 50% of it's content from within the Swiss borders. If marketing labels like "Made in America" make you feel better about your purchase that's fine, but they don't really tell much about where the product and all it's components really came from.

That Ford or Chevy you buy likely has parts and components from around the world.