Also, yes actually, they do use slave labour in China, much of the official olympic merchandise on offer were made by children, working long hours for a menial wage. In this day and age, that to me is slave labour. And the Chinese Government are very canny....if found out, they will report the finding of the child labour factory in the (state controlled) press, and say that officials are investigating. In the meantime, the labour goes on. But the World thinks...'ok, something is being done'.
You are an idiot who has never BEEN there.
1. Child labor is not slave labor. They are PAID and they are not "FORCED" to work at factories.
Their parents actually often pay BRIBES to get their children a job in a facotry, because it beats the hell out of stoop labor in the field.
Mollycoddled fucks like you who imagine other people HAVE the same choices you have are obnoxious.
Are you so stupid that you imagine that, if not working in factories, these children would be playing soccer in the park?
So stupid that you think people in the third world have the OPTION of their children not doing labor?
There ain't no park... its factory work, or field work. That's the reality.
What the hell do you think children are FOR in the poorer parts of the world?
The poorer parts of the world think Westerners are hopelessly ignorant to make such a big deal of children WORKING. In this country, if you grew up on a farm, you damn well did work at hard labor every damn day.
The REASON we have summers off school was so that rural kids could WORK on the farm during the summer.
And all this boycott shit- like the Nike boycott by the fools who think they know the world....
Have you ever BEEN to the third world?
Just what the fuck have YOU done to alleviate their poverty?
Let me tell you. When you buy crap made in the third world... that is the MOST that any American has ever done to alleviate poverty.
Unlike soapbox protestations that vent your spleen... buying third world goods actually enriches the workers of the third world.
And trust me... the very minute any group of people can AFFORD to have their kids in school rather than helping to support the family... they put them in school.
Look at the olympics and see all the amazing progress that China has made... the boom in building and in earnings...
ALL OF THAT came from westerners buying crap from China.
Your dollars, in the pockets of their workers.
Its created a middle class.
And the sleepy factory town I visited for 5 years and saw become rich?
The Chinese government made the rich folks of this town split their collectivist factory royalties with a dirt poor chinese village so far inland that they will probably never get factories.
SO that this inland village can build schools, and economic opportunities.
No doubt the Chinese should get out of tibet.
But until we get the fuck out of Iraq and Afghanistan, we hardly have a right to waggle our finger at the chinese.
China has a different culture... and different problems. As a nation, they are actually doing their best to solve those problems.
And the lesson is that TRADE and open relations is what has made life in China better...
Not pontificating moralists who have no comprehension of the reality of poverty.
We should learn from the positive effect the west has had on China... thru NOT isolating them...
And apply that to our relations with Iran.
China is getting better.
It can't be better IMMEDIATELY... but it is moving in the right direction.
Engagement is how better ideas and better understanding are spread.
Oh- and what the government has done to make thing nicer?
Its nothing compared to the folks relocated for the three gorges project.
But , hey... its not like the US supreme court did not just endorse the idea that American cities can Sieze private property and hand it over to commercial developers....
All over the US local govenrments are siezing old negihborhoods and selling the land at undermarket prices and with no proptety taxes to corporations who want to build Kmarts.
And they are doing it strictly to increase their sale tax revenues.
What China has done in the name of economic growth is no different than what we do, daily.
And the Chinese have not invaded another country and killed 100,000 of their citizens in the last 15 years, either.