Golden Raisin
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Sat Mar-29-08 05:21 PM
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Just a comment on the times. I live in New York and recently took some out-of-town family visitors to the Statue of Liberty. Virtually every souvenir in the large Gift Shop, including hundreds of different-sized replicas of Lady Liberty, were all "Made in China". An exception: the Statue of Liberty baseball cap I purchased was "Made in Cambodia".
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Sat Mar-29-08 05:24 PM
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1. It's been that way for decades |
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The made in Cambodia surprised me, but then that is clothing.
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Sat Mar-29-08 05:25 PM
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2. A sad commentary on the times in which we live. n/t |
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Sat Mar-29-08 05:29 PM
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3. A major news network story should be broadcast about this... |
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...because if THIS doesn't underscore the sad state of our economy, I just don't know what does...:(
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Sat Mar-29-08 06:04 PM
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4. Just went there yesterday! |
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I hate gift shops! I avoid them. But there were plenty of tourists there, including Asian tourists.
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus, 1883
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land, Here at our sea-washed, sunset-gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome, her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin-cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she, With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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Sat Mar-29-08 06:24 PM
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5. Just checked the Statue of Liberty |
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on my desk, on the bottom it says 1985, made in China. So is the figure of the Empire State. Now I have check the rest of my stuff.
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Sat Mar-29-08 06:56 PM
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6. The Statute itself was made in France... |
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Sat Mar-29-08 07:51 PM
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In the 1880s French people contributed $$ for the building of a statue in another country!
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:00 PM
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8. Why do you hate cambodians? |
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Sat Mar-29-08 09:16 PM
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One of the many maquettes of the Statue of Liberty in Paris. This one is on an island in the Seine.
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