) {# n3 y6 p. J) f% b( w“购物变得有意义了,”她说。基督科学箴言报曾发表过邦吉奥尼的一篇文章,讲述了她家在2005年一年内抵制中国产品的经历: ' L- t0 K. u) C) I+ } # d+ |. ]& I9 t3 V在2004年的圣诞节过去两天后,我们作了一个决定--把“中国”请出我们家。在2004年的圣诞节过去两天后,我们作了一个决定——把“中国”请出我们家。 o9 f* I; _7 L& M u- F! Q; p
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当然,这并非真正的中国,而是标有“中国制造”的,如塑料制品、金属制品以及木制品等中国产品。我们决定在保持现有的“中国制造”产品的情况下,尝试一年内不再购买“中国制造”产品。我们决定在保持现有的“中国制造”产品的情况下,尝试一年内不再购买“中国制造”产品。 m" _& w8 U. t; w* x1 D: D( c( t$ h, n1 k4 T4 g
“中国制造”确实让我们家里充满了各种带来欢乐的玩具、小物件以及便宜的消费品。“中国制造”的价格是决定我们购买的主要原因,长期以来难以抗拒。6 G* |2 u- ~! O) S* c$ t7 p
% B$ s1 M0 W( o. N# e4 D但就是2004年的一天,当我坐在沙发上,环顾满屋的圣诞礼物的时候,却发现了一个不争的事实:自己不知不觉已被中国产品所包围。我快速地清理了一下家里的各种圣诞礼物,发现中国制造的有25件,非中国制造的14件。 5 F1 q: K/ B2 f5 D/ j- e! E- D8 c: P) O2 U
我突然意识到,圣诞节已经俨然变成了一个中国人制造出来的节日。经过我不断地劝说,丈夫最终接受了我的想法:从2005年1月1日起,我们家拒绝购买“中国制造”商品一年。 ; d0 Q* P! x4 F3 d; K1 v& H ' M# a) a$ }- ]# q我这个念头绝非是针对中国,更何况我们的“抗议”对中国来说根本微乎其微。当然,我们也并非欺骗自己,认为自己的行动会把一个就业机会还给美国的某家公司。我只是想借此评估一下“中国制造”对我们生活的渗透程度,以及我们需要多大的代价和多久的时间能够放弃购买中国产品的习惯。 5 N% i: u2 P, B # \0 `0 v& |' N* H1 ?在购买一些小物品上面,“抵制中国产品”的决定不时困扰着我们全家。在丈夫生日的时候,为了买一些生日蜡烛来配蛋糕,我们开车兜了六七家店也没买到,最后,还是在厨房一个封尘的盒子里面找到了一包印有“中国制造”标志的蜡烛。8 K7 S8 p* i& j/ Q
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家里的搅拌机和电视机坏了,这也带来了小小的危机。我们还不得不用上了旧式的捕鼠器,因为新式的也是“中国制造”。' j8 O3 n$ j1 C& f, o9 K
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给儿子买玩具也成了一件头疼的事情。4岁的儿子是一个重感情的人,但是他最终还是对丹麦生产的叠加玩具产生了厌倦,直到10月的时候,他终于忍不住哭起来,希望我们给他买一个中国生产的电动南瓜玩具:“我们已经很久没买过中国产品了。” # Y4 f# W, @6 w% N e1 n2 b! O. ?. O# T( n1 D2 I* {' l
丈夫看到了很不错的圣诞礼物,但是却由于是中国制造而不能购买,他也开始抱怨了。他决定自己缝睡袋给小孩,甚至自己做木船和吉他,但是我担心,到时他会发现针线和一些小零件都是“中国制造”。" y) }9 i2 Q* `( ]4 g* g
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12月31日是我们家“拒绝中国”的最后一天。没有中国货的一年,生活简直是在与家人的争吵中度过的。我试图证明“中国制造”并不能影响我生活的方方面面,但事实证明并非如此。6 B! z, n$ _: ^, r
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一天晚上,我的儿子告诉我,一想到“中国购买季”即将来到,他就感到很开心:‘希望我们不要再有“抵制中国产品年”了’。 1 }9 ]" y) {0 U- m( ?( o/ T) J% a: [1 W8 I9 W$ w
经过一年“抵制中国产品”的经历,我可以告诉你:没有了中国产品,你可以照样生活,但是你的生活会变得更艰辛,家庭开支也会大大增加。今后的十年中,我想我是再没有勇气过“抵制中国产品”的日子了。: x, F8 W& a! w6 i
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0 w% | H+ @: b$ p9 zThu Jun 28, 2007 7 S4 N: ]' u0 g" a $ s3 r$ V3 o4 `SEATTLE (Reuters) - Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China." h7 |. k# e. W# B( Q
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In "A Year Without 'Made in China,'" (Wiley, $24.95) Bongiorni tells how she and her family found that such formerly simple acts as finding new shoes, buying a birthday toy and fixing a drawer became ordeals without the Asian giant. 7 n! h0 ` ?$ ?' U: T. ^8 J u, w" F& A b4 M" I0 Y3 b) bBongiorni takes pains to say she does not have a protectionist agenda and, despite the occasional worry about the loss of U.S. jobs to overseas factories, she has nothing against China. Her goal was simply to make Americans aware of how deeply tied they are to the international trading system. : s1 V9 A# \( ^1 z' C/ d! j6 `0 S4 P
"I wanted our story to be a friendly, nonjudgmental look at the ways ordinary people are connected to the global economy," she said in an interview before the book appears in July. 8 `# z F/ i1 f4 O; P+ C( X5 |3 E9 v9 K. z* T
As a business journalist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Bongiorni wrote about international trade for a decade. "I used to see the Commerce Department trade statistics, the billions of dollars, and think it had nothing to do with me," she said. 9 x+ v8 d6 }9 m" M3 k) _. b: ~- B/ m; ^+ m
The reality was far different.( ?1 U( h& Q1 v6 |8 S" V' D
; [/ L) h0 Y+ G; C$ o$ p2 l" |As the year unfolded, "the boycott made me rethink the distance between China and me. In pushing China out of our lives, I got an eye-popping view of how far China had pushed in," she wrote. + C( Q8 f5 W! m % }0 O# b& j" uAbout 15 percent of the $1.7 trillion in goods the United States imported in 2006 came from China, economist Joel Naroff writes in the foreword. Much of that is the manufactured stuff that fills Wal-Mart and other retailers -- the necessities and frivolities sought by lower- and middle-income Americans. - }6 u* ]# W0 H( ] s5 T$ n3 C# G & k4 o1 @) z I! Y7 s- qLower prices have been one benefit of Beijing's rise and make it very hard for consumers to forswear Chinese imports. z* `5 R$ m0 ~6 X( ~0 |) S1 ]( `
$ ~* m: C9 L! P+ p' }9 YLEGOS, LAMPS 0 M# X" L; c8 ~/ N" p# I T, `( D 2 R9 p4 Z5 Q/ w: DAnd hard it was. % K6 }6 j; D* ^5 }1 _ h) Q7 Q7 @ , w# b8 G1 @: H% rFor all of 2005, minor purchases required dogged detective work as Bongiorni scoured catalogues and read labels.0 n, I( W9 i2 A1 ^
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She repeatedly struck out trying to buy inexpensive shoes for her son, and even the chic local boutique that sold fancy European labels had gone out of business. So she shelled out $68 for Italian sneakers from a catalogue. * @8 |# L* S) o5 h$ F6 ~( B8 E) \: a8 s* d' U; I
Broken appliances gathered dust because the spare parts came from China. And, with the Asian country having a near lock on the toy aisles, her 4-year-old son grew tired of taking Danish-made Legos to birthday parties as gifts. 1 m3 H, j9 ?3 U, \1 j, u. G3 ?/ L9 G6 X: b! `
The family resorted to snapping mouse traps when the gentler catch and release kind came from, you guessed it, China./ F6 t5 }, F5 \& q
. _$ h& |. `' W) U; Z( x5 n9 s+ QBongiorni got a lesson in the global economy after products advertised as Made in USA turned out to have Chinese parts. She decided to keep a lamp with just this problem after speaking to the manufacturer and learning how China is "eating the lunch" of the few U.S lamp producers left.! U( R( ?+ k$ F# |: C- g7 g( i8 b q+ I
: ~2 ~/ f Q' ]! Q1 V+ W q( H9 uSince the boycott's end, Bongiorni has chosen a middle ground. Her family seeks alternatives but accepts Chinese products when most practical. But one habit from the boycott remains: It required her to think hard about what she buys. & s1 ~2 P: C7 H" W* x: f 7 Z2 @2 \0 B9 W"Shopping became meaningful," she said.
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