Baoli I understand you are perhaps a bit sensitive in any comments about China. Anyone hearing criticisms leveled at their own home country is going to have this kind of tendancy. But before you assume I have no idea what I am talking about, let us remember first what I have said and havnt said. I have said that pianos coming out of china today by and large are not up to par, many being sub-standard. I can not imagine how things could possibly be otherwise at this stage in Chinese piano building history. I have also said that I expect the Chinese industry to improve as time goes by. Otherwise I have pointed out some basic knowledge about the present state of eastern asian economies that is fairly well common knowledge. You can not possibly deny that a westerner can not live very handsomely indeed for an extended period of time in nearly every eastern asian country for a months salary in his/her home town. Nor can anyone possibly deny labour conditions vary greatly. Injustice is found everywhere in the world and it takes on many faces. Our responsibilities are to try as best we can to become aware of them as best we can and try to contribute to an improvement. There is nothing wrong in pointing that out, nor does doing so reflect any lack of understanding. We simply have to be able to be self critical as well as critical over others. Again, I remind you that I directed no specific charge at any particular factory or country aside from mentioning three asian countries with imerging piano industries experiencing entirely predictable difficulties. Didnt mean to raise any nationalistic feelings. Cheers RicB ---------------- Obviously Pianotech is not the best list to talk about Chinese or Japanese or whoever... But Ric, One thing that i think that YOU should be a lot more conscious about is that you have to understand what you are talking about! Baoli Liu,RPT
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