Re: [Harp-L] harps made in China

"G. E. Popenoe" <gpopenoe@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:11:44 -0700

Good point. There have been numerous slave operations exposed here in  
California. They are usually involving undocumented workers that were  
promised the good life in the USA and then confined in bad conditions  
and forced to work for nothing. We try to expose them as much as  
possible, however.
No country these days is without skeletons in their closet regarding  
man's inhumanity to man.
Musicians and other performers can often have a platform from which  
they can expose these wrongs often in a format that is easier to be  
accepted by a group or audience.
The great Saturday Night Live comedian Gilda Radner once said "Comedy  
is the truth, only faster."
Great classic delta blues is the truth of the African American working  
class of the mid 20th century south. The sons and daughters of former  
slaves.
Pull out your harps and play the truth whenever you can!
Meanwhile, I'll try to be a good little harp player and do my part to  
know as much as possible about how humane and sustainable the current  
harmonica manufacturing processes are. If we do that as a community,  
who knows what we can learn and change.
Gary Popenoe
On Apr 25, 2008, at 3:09 AM, "Alexander Savelyev" <Alexander.Savelyev@xxxxxxxx 
> wrote:
The whole discussion on human rights and goods production thereof  
can be viewed in different diamensions. And it depends on the level  
of attitude to the product itself and its manufacturing process and  
alike.
For instance, I saw some beautiful furniture maded by slaves in the  
U.S. which was of very high standard, quality and practical use.  
Very rigid. It was so beautifully made that I thought to myself that  
it would be a pleasure to have such furtniture at home. Yes, those  
slaves were treated well - good food and attitude, but they were not  
free and were kept in one place by force, which is bad. I heard that  
some of the jewelry products of very high quality have been produced  
by people who were treated bad but they had the best tools.
For instance in my home country prices for cars and real estate as  
1.7 times higher than say in the United States and people have  
incomes at least 10 times less. And I personally think that it's  
anti-human environment (It's not that visible to the outside world  
compared to situations in some other countries where workers are  
working in extremely bad conditions - litterally with no shoes on,  
etc. and for less than 1 dollar a day, etc. - just another level of  
inhumanity). Still some things of high quality are being produced in  
my country and sent to U.S. and Western Europe. And people there are  
quite happy with the products (sometimes even not realizing where  
the product comes from originally) and nobody argues about anti- 
humanity, etc.
I'm not advocating and not calling for some kind of attitude  
regarding goods made in China or anywere else. But I'd like to say  
that our attitude to this or that product is subject to how much we  
know or how close we take certain facts. So, it's rhetorical and  
philosophical issue.
"Randy Sandoval" <randyharps@xxxxxxxxxxx> 24.04.2008 19:56:30 >>>

For myself  I hate to buy Chinese goods more due to the lack of  
human rights in general.

Its a political thing.  And I HATE politics.

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