I worked 9 years at Eastman Kodak. I read a book about the company called Changing Focus. In that book was a chapter about how it hit people hard when they were laid off due to competition from Fuji (and we all know Japan protects their home base). The chapter was about a well off married couple, both working for Eastman Kodak in Rochester. Eventually they both got laid off, a disaster for them of course. But what struck me most was that the husband blamed the American people for buying Fuji instead of supporting American businesses and jobs. But guess what he had in his garage: two German cars and one Swedish car.
That's a thing that's often puzzled me about some Americans, they seem to think that anything foreign is better. Just my $0.02
