Originally Posted by bluebrownfan
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Hate to burst your bubble, but a lot of the "Made in Italy" stuff is still made by Chinese people. To wit:
...Most brands aren’t so straightforward. To please customers looking for the “Made in Italy” label, several luxury companies now have their goods made in Italy by illegal Chinese laborers. Today, the Tuscan town of Prato, just outside of Florence and long the center for leather-goods production for brands like Gucci and Prada, has the second-largest population of Chinese in Europe, after Paris. More than half of the 4,200 factories in Prato are owned by Chinese entrepreneurs, some of whom pay their Chinese workers as little as two Euros ($3) an hour.
To read the full article about the "Made in Italy" issue, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/op...l?<br />
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It's not the race/nationality of the craftsmen that gets my goat. I just want my stuff to be made in the country of origin. You can hire Chinese or any other races, just make them in England!
Similiarly, if Burberry had exported an entire town of British craftsmen and physically locate them in China, I still wouldn't be happy.
It's not the nationality/race of the perso that irks me, it's the place of anufacturing.