Is there a little piece of China in your pocket?
Re: Is there a little piece of China in your pocket?
I've a Buck 379 Solo that finds it way into my pocket every now and then - to be honest I made the rookie mistake of thinking it was US made but even though I then picked up a 309 I still like to carry the Solo
Re: Is there a little piece of China in your pocket?
Your opinion not fact. If you look at my post, obviously relevant to me. I stick with US made CASE.TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Country of origin is irrelevant.
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Are you saying that you do not demand the best from Case because they are made in the US? I did not say that you could not use country of origin as a criteria, what I said is that we must demand the best quality from ALL manufacturers, regardless of country of origin. I will not cut a US manufacturer slack just because they are a US manufacturer.zp4ja wrote:Your opinion not fact. If you look at my post, obviously relevant to me. I stick with US made CASE.TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Country of origin is irrelevant.
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Of course I demand quality. Another reason I collect pre 80’ CASE. US made or CASE for that matter I will not tolerate a sloppy tool. As I stated, country of origin is relevant to me. It is not just rim knives. I am half German and Italian. Do not have any from those countries in my collection either or any other country for that matter. Just how I do it. I respect others do it different. And to clarify, you might have meant that but not what you said...TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:Are you saying that you do not demand the best from Case because they are made in the US? I did not say that you could not use country of origin as a criteria, what I said is that we must demand the best quality from ALL manufacturers, regardless of country of origin. I will not cut a US manufacturer slack just because they are a US manufacturer.zp4ja wrote:Your opinion not fact. If you look at my post, obviously relevant to me. I stick with US made CASE.TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: Country of origin is irrelevant.
Your statement seems to say if country of origin is important in addition to quality, you are being a tribalist. Whatever that means as far as relevance to my initial post. By the way I am very familiar with the definition.
Edit to add definitions...TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:Demand the best from EVERY manufacturer. Country of origin is irrelevant. The world is too small for tribalism.
trib·al·ism
ˈtrībəˌlizəm/Submit
noun
noun: tribalism
the state or fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes.
derogatory
the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group.
"a society motivated by cultural tribalism"
synonyms: sectarianism, chauvinism; esprit de corps
"the latest waves of violence were blamed on tribalism"
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I fully support your right to set any criteria for your purchases that you wish. Supporting that right does not prevent me from disagreeing with a specific criteria you may use, or from using different criteria for my own purchases. You selected a piece of my statement, took it out of context and commented on it.
Do you disagree that using a criteria of country of origin is tribalism? If you had grown-up in Italy, would you now be buying only Italian knives?
Do you disagree that using a criteria of country of origin is tribalism? If you had grown-up in Italy, would you now be buying only Italian knives?
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First off, all I knew was CASE growing up. That what DAd and I used and collected. And yes, I do disagree with characterizing pride in country as tribalism. Please spare me the Chinese keyboards, lamps, microchips, etc comment that will likely follow. Yea I have those. BTW, my company has an office in China so I have many Chinese colleagues which I like very much, highly respect and they are great people.TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:I fully support your right to set any criteria for your purchases that you wish. Supporting that right does not prevent me from disagreeing with a specific criteria you may use, or from using different criteria for my own purchases. You selected a piece of my statement, took it out of context and commented on it.
Do you disagree that using a criteria of country of origin is tribalism? If you had grown-up in Italy, would you now be buying only Italian knives?
With all due respect, I could give a rats behind if you like my criteria. Disagree all you want, not changing how I do it. Additionally, as I said, everyone does it differently and I respect that. Please point out where exactly I EVER said anything about someone else’s choice or criteria? A qoute would be great but unfortunately there is not one to reference.
I don’t have a crystal ball and did not grow up in Italy so can’t tell you.
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