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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wlheatmoon who wrote (50511)	3/8/1999 8:45:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

You may know what you are talking about for your generation and location and class (or you may not) but LOTS of Asians are VERY conscious about brand names, especially young people in Japan, Korea and China. Some of the older Chinese may indeed be very frugal, as the older generation Japanese are, the result of living through hard times, social upheavals etc- but the younger generations who are rebelling against the caution of the older generations are not likely to be so frugal- until they are crushed by new social and economic turmoils (much like the generation that lived through the US depression gave rise to...what we have now).

To: wlheatmoon who wrote (50511)	3/8/1999 10:18:00 AM
From: Mike M2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, the less controversial word for cheap is thrifty. You mention that you are Chinese so i am guessing that english is a second language so i'll try to explain. Words can have an express meaning and an implied meaning. If you want to insult someone you say they are cheap if you want to compliment someone they are thrifty. BTW the history channel had a program on Unit 731 -the site of the Japanese Biological Weapons research center where they committed horrendous war crimes against the Chinese people including surgery without anesthesia, spreading anthrax and other diseases, exposing people to bombs, freezing them. They even gave children candy laced with anthrax. Their actions in WWII rank right up there with the most evil acts in the history of man. Mike