Historically luxuries came from China. In fact Africans who were doing the selling during the Slave Trade generally insisted on the Asian fineries and dismisse

Historically luxuries came from China. In fact Africans who were doing the selling during the Slave Trade generally insisted on the Asian fineries and dismissed the European products as distantly and vertically inferior. And they were generally pretty shrewd in the negotiation, they knew the immense worth of whom they were selling. Insisted on getting beautiful clothes out of the equation. And Pablo Neruda says, at one point, "Chinese hands and Mexicans hands are similar, incapable of making ugly things."