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That's what they said about Japan in the 50s.
by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
That's what they said about Japan in the 50s.
- brownbat 10y agoAnd the US in the early 1800s. Schuyler Towne has an amazing discussion of this, how Europeans routinely were laughing at American inventions... until they suddenly very much weren't. It's in this talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjacHSTd48&list=UUBDpLXSbLHkPVocZgMuBTMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjacHSTd48&list=UUBDpLXSbLH... I'd link directly to the relevant five minutes but it's hard to justify doing that sort of harm, depriving you of the other great 45 minutes there. (Ok, let's say it's 34ish to 41ish. Still, that entire thing is probably better than the other way you were going to spend some 50 minute block today.)
- kriro 10y agoIt's also the origin of "Made in Germany" which initially was supposed to warn British consumers against the simple copies from Germany...alas it has turned into more of a seal of quality later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany