Comments on: Mayor Mazziotti of Palm Bay Florida Encourages China Boycott. http://notchinamade.net/2007/10/08/mayor-mazziotti-of-palm-bay-florida-encourages-china-boycott/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:27:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: internationalist http://notchinamade.net/2007/10/08/mayor-mazziotti-of-palm-bay-florida-encourages-china-boycott/#comment-233 internationalist Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:35:18 +0000 http://notchinamade.net/2007/10/08/mayor-mazziotti-of-palm-bay-florida-encourages-china-boycott/#comment-233 The mayor could have been more learned before promoting such an act. Stirring local people's emotions, using a scapegoat for unemployment, and using an authoritarian approach to arouse patriotism are so typical behaviors of discriminative politicians. This act can be considered to be the indirect institutional discrimination (see introductory sociology texts if needed). In fact, I believe China should stop being a cheap factory and exploit its poor natural resources to fulfill the need of the developed countries, which try so hard to save every bit of their own energy resource for the future. I thought the U.S. was a better country, but my eight years of staying here disappointed me. Hardworking is never larger than ethnicity. I have seen racism, prejudice, discrimination, racial segregation... I still hope people can be more understanding and do positive things to promote world peace. I hope there are more people who are not irrationally angry towards outgroups. Or at least, let's hope our mayor has a bit more rationality than laypeople. The mayor could have been more learned before promoting such an act. Stirring local people’s emotions, using a scapegoat for unemployment, and using an authoritarian approach to arouse patriotism are so typical behaviors of discriminative politicians. This act can be considered to be the indirect institutional discrimination (see introductory sociology texts if needed).

In fact, I believe China should stop being a cheap factory and exploit its poor natural resources to fulfill the need of the developed countries, which try so hard to save every bit of their own energy resource for the future.

I thought the U.S. was a better country, but my eight years of staying here disappointed me. Hardworking is never larger than ethnicity. I have seen racism, prejudice, discrimination, racial segregation… I still hope people can be more understanding and do positive things to promote world peace. I hope there are more people who are not irrationally angry towards outgroups. Or at least, let’s hope our mayor has a bit more rationality than laypeople.

]]> By: Gus http://notchinamade.net/2007/10/08/mayor-mazziotti-of-palm-bay-florida-encourages-china-boycott/#comment-232 Gus Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:12:50 +0000 http://notchinamade.net/2007/10/08/mayor-mazziotti-of-palm-bay-florida-encourages-china-boycott/#comment-232 Congratulations to Mayor Mazziotti. It’s great to see people with decision-making positions taking a stand. The way he’s going about it – by taking it to a council vote – is above reproach. Since he’s basically spending citizen’s money, he needs to have a mandate. To the Councilman Pat Woodward who questioned where it would stop, “What about Iran or Korea?” (I assume he meant North Korea), maybe someone should mention that the US does in fact have an embargo against those countries, along with Syria, Sudan, and (surprise, surprise) Cuba. China, on the other hand, enjoys the best trade status the US has to offer, “Permanent Normal Trade Relations” (formerly “Most Favored Nation”). I have to ask myself, how many of Councilman Woodward’s kids’ toy come from Iran, how many of his constituents had their jobs outsourced to North Korea, how much acid rain will fall on his garden from Syria pollution, and how many nuclear missiles the Sudan has pointed at West Palm beach. Congratulations to Mayor Mazziotti. It’s great to see people with decision-making positions taking a stand. The way he’s going about it – by taking it to a council vote – is above reproach. Since he’s basically spending citizen’s money, he needs to have a mandate.

To the Councilman Pat Woodward who questioned where it would stop, “What about Iran or Korea?” (I assume he meant North Korea), maybe someone should mention that the US does in fact have an embargo against those countries, along with Syria, Sudan, and (surprise, surprise) Cuba. China, on the other hand, enjoys the best trade status the US has to offer, “Permanent Normal Trade Relations” (formerly “Most Favored Nation”).

I have to ask myself, how many of Councilman Woodward’s kids’ toy come from Iran, how many of his constituents had their jobs outsourced to North Korea, how much acid rain will fall on his garden from Syria pollution, and how many nuclear missiles the Sudan has pointed at West Palm beach.

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