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Originally Posted by Stardrifter_WA
Hi Rom,
If you are boycotting Japanese products, are you actually writing to those manufacturers to advise them that you will not buy Japanese products until Japan stops whaling? If not, what is the point of the boycott, if they don't know about it.
If we all meant it and all wrote to the manufacturers, they may put pressure on their government. People, collectively, do have power, but just lack the will to exercise it. I know I do, I like the Canon L series lens, and won't stop buying them, for example.
If all the people in Australia, and other countries, stopped buying Japanese products, until they stop whaling, it would happen quickly.
Street protest may highlight a problem, but are not the answer, particularly if the Jap government doesn't give a toss.
Hurt them, where it will hurt them the most, in the hip pocket. Unfortunately, I know it is more complex than this, in that, if we stop buying Jap products, they won't need our iron ore, etc. etc. etc. This would result in flow on affects.
If a protest of this nature was actually launched, I would join in and stop buying their products, but, on my own, my voice doesn't amount to much, and therefore, the only person I actually hurt is me, by not having the product that I want.
Maybe the answer is make one month a year, "don't buy Japanese month", and promote that.
I admire your conviction Rom.
Cheers Pete
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Actually, YES, I do write to Jap companies and tell them why I wont buy from them and boy, has that cost them a packet already!! I have written to Manufacturers, Jap Pollies, Jap Newspapers and toasted the odd Jap nationalist online as well. I have eyed off a TOA 150 several times over the last few years, was in a position to buy one new and wrote to the manufacturer and told them why they didn't get a sale. Considering the state of their economy, it wouldn't take much to get them thinking.
Single voices don't make much noise generally but someone has to start... Yes? Okay, I'm one, why don't you become number 2?
As I have said before in this thread, you are wasting your time waiting for politicians to grow balls. They wont so you have to act yourself. Is a Canon lens a replacement for an extinct species? I think not.
In Tassie, people power writing to companies all over the world, doing street protests and fighting for the environment, killed off Gunns and forced the logging industry to the negotiating table. It took 30 years but last year we HAD consensus and a deal was all but signed. What stopped it? Moronic ideology driven Fwit politicians at both levels of govt. Oh well, if required, we will take them down as well and in the meantime... gawd help any bast*rd that goes near the protected forests.
Gotta start somewhere mate.
have at'em
Rom