Oh say can you see by the shop’s dirty light…

We got a new machine today — a very nice, sturdy piece of well-needed equipment, I might add — that everyone has been looking forward to for quite some time.

I walked into the shop to catch a glimpse of… the American flag. No, wait, two American flags. And what appeared to be bunting. All over our new machine.

Now, I’m no anti-American zealot. I love Americans as one might love one’s gun-toting, Bible-thumping, gas-guzzling, war-loving older brother. But I don’t want the flag plastered all over my workplace. We’re not that way in Canada.

It puzzles me to think of exporting something with your country’s flag plastered on the front. Sure, “Made in America” somewhere on the packaging is a nice touch, a sign of quality, perhaps even a testimony to decent engineering. Maybe a little flag somewhere near the ingredients. But on a stationary box that someone’s going to place in the middle of their shop? Isn’t that just a little… rude?

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Posted October 22nd, 2007 in main. Tagged: , , .

One comment:

  1. Anonymous Reformed Interlocutor:

    They don’t get that others ain’t like them. I lived down there for a year, back in 2000/2001, and I’ve revisited down there recently, and nothing has changed; if anything, it’s gotten more so. (American author Bill Bryson noted that foreigners visiting / living / on exchange, in the U.S., will eventually get asked, which country do you prefer, your own, or the U.S.? I did indeed get asked this, and, as will always be the case, there is surprise when one answers one’s own country.)

    If you drive on the 401 and see American transport trucks, you’ll immediately be able to tell them apart from Canadian ones, just as with your computer, what with the flags. Yanks. I love them, and… You know.

    October 24th, 2007 at 7:25 pm

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