China has painted it's face for the Olympics, and for the sake of foreign trade and relations, but beneath a thin skin, it remains a tyrant. Boycott the Olympics. Boycott Chinese goods. Everytime you buy something from WalMart or Target check the labels of your goods. If it has made in China on it, put it the hell back on the shelf. If we truly care about China's appalling human rights violations we should stop buying stuff we don't need from them. Lobby our congressmen and women to push big corporations to put jobs back into American hands. Or support other countries with better records who need help with fair trade. This seems almost impractical. There's hardly anything out there which is not from China. Controlling that many people through any other means (than dictatorship) is probably problematic. — Comment removed by clipper — Yeah definately - They're addressing that issue in America by following your line of thinking i see. Good Luck. BTW, I am in no way implying that that's a "good" thing. It is not. But historically the feudal system had to give way to a central authority. Their system developed out of necessity. @arifsali: Well, lots of worthy accomplishments in human history hardly seemed practical. But if you care about the world you will take small steps which lead to bigger ones. China cares nothing about human rights or the pollution caused by the mass production of goods that we don't need. I have been taking the conscious effort to put things back on the shelf if they are made in China. Each time I do so, I send a very small message to distributors and manufacturers of goods. When Rosa Parks sat down on the bus, and Ghandi did his part for passive resistance, I don't think they said "whoa, this is impractical". If they had, where would we be? Little steps are ripples on the pond. NonStatQuo, when you put down the made in China one, you're probably picking up the made in India or made in Bangladesh one. Where would you draw the line? As far as I can see, China is only providing cheap labor and logistics to the American corporations who are utilizing them for all these products. "As far as I can see, China is only providing cheap labor and logistics to the American corporations who are utilizing them for all these products."Exactly! And this is what is wrong. Why are there so many factories firing and outsourcing their entire factories (and expecting American workers they just fired to train the Chinese workers in the jobs they used to do? China provides cheap labor, and is ruining the air that they breathe with factories polluting at an alarming rate. Everyone knows the human rights violations are outrageous. (and yes America is flawed here too). American corporations have a lot to answer for when it comes to greed. Outsourcing and closing perfec... |
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