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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。”, @ {7 ~$ p+ p. `) a( N' [% U
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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”。1 G' E: J' K: [; R
5 `# A8 p: f8 x, D12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。 3 A7 W" V% N/ G" \, ?' Y, P- J- V ( j0 C2 F9 D) u0 Q, R' G( f' ~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’。! i* W o5 W5 ?- D! S8 Y4 s
% I" O, I3 C$ ]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。- a( E7 r$ p9 v
) F [! m2 Z6 p8 n* H ; b+ i! n: ?: t( V- q" V& c8 q . P; c3 b, w# E; ?2 {% dU.S. family tries living without China$ T6 s" l8 ~( j m2 P/ u0 m
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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.1 T& x0 f8 h: w4 I
. \- i |6 X! [! _% C# ~" UIn "A Year Without 'Made in China,'" (Wiley, $24.95) Bongiorni tells how she and her family found that such formerly simple acts as finding new shoes, buying a birthday toy and fixing a drawer became ordeals without the Asian giant./ h+ L3 B$ U. ?7 |/ C' p% h8 {
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Bongiorni 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.- f0 y/ F5 t0 m0 w% f+ j* J9 S
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"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.3 `1 m' ~) {0 P+ z7 b
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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.( W3 @5 d; Y' c
, o$ R2 }/ J) N+ H: E3 wThe reality was far different.) R; R# o0 W3 g* h/ p% B# n, y
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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. 1 {3 X1 F* s( N, K) ~ ' E: N' v( a( R3 B2 l1 sAbout 15 percent of the $1.7 trillion in goods the United States imported in 2006 came from China, economist Joel Naroff writes in the foreword. Much of that is the manufactured stuff that fills Wal-Mart and other retailers -- the necessities and frivolities sought by lower- and middle-income Americans.4 d/ f( V3 X6 v$ u1 m
5 W' S" [) t/ _( z }7 [Lower prices have been one benefit of Beijing's rise and make it very hard for consumers to forswear Chinese imports. M- F$ I3 m1 u s% q' C * _7 k, {! [5 A9 R5 Z+ @LEGOS, LAMPS 5 A8 E) y% M2 }( y! F6 m8 Y+ E3 Z' d# c! k6 v- P
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For all of 2005, minor purchases required dogged detective work as Bongiorni scoured catalogues and read labels. ) r( h2 [7 E( o: h, u * x' u6 N, K3 A( ?6 c+ ^9 [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.: U" K9 A6 a: s' m- B) U y- I
2 o8 V% O# _8 ~8 c* ~) xBroken 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.5 s( u( p/ g& w0 e, D
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Bongiorni 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.( ~; X7 k! f6 V4 S( V
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Since 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.9 u& u. r; V3 e! I0 s
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"Shopping became meaningful," she said.
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