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Nov
9
“Why does that bother you, sweetie?” I asked my youngest as he worked on an art project at the kitchen table, home today for a cold.
“Ohhhh…” He oozed with gritted teeth frustration while the colored sparkle glue oozed onto the art project he was creating at our kitchen table.
“I just don’t like things made in China! Like my old journal in kindergarten. That was made in China too. I just don’t like all this China stuff.”
Can you imagine my horror? Me – who majored in Chinese and wanted to go to China when Beijing was still closed? With a son who already has a negative connection to the very idea of China?
The art project he’s working on is from Creativity for Kids, which happens to be an Ohio-based company. We have three of the same project, Butterfly Bedroom, all received as gifts and placed on reserve for sick days just like today (yeah, we get to the television and computer and gameboy and gamecube too but I’m saving that for later; right now we’re both working in the kitchen, listening to classical music, about which he just said, “Hey, don’t I know this?” and indeed he does – we listen to a lot of classical music in my house and I just turned down an offer to my fourth grade daughter to attend a Christina Aguilera concert – and had to gently tell the parent who asked why I really wasn’t being judgemental about the no decision).
Creativity for Kids is a great story and was bought by Faber-Castell. But yes, everything about those butterfly bedroom kids – made in China.
What are you gonna do on a sick day with three of the same gift collecting dust in a closet?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:54 pm November 9th, 2006 in Politics
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I also try to avoid products from red China, but it’s getting harder and harder. For me, it’s not a “negative connection to the very idea of China.” I’m pleasantly surprised when I find something made in Taiwan. It’s more an aversion to the red Chinese government’s human rights record. I’d rather buy stuff that comes from free countries.
Good point. He definitely wasn’t saying Taiwan. And I have to tell you – if he can distinguish Taiwan from China in anyway other than the spelling of the words, I will go apopletic.