In the late 1990s in Australia we had similar attempts to promote domestic products in the supermarket. As a kid at the time I questioned why we’d buy local when global brands were higher quality and more familiar to me, especially as I’ve lived in Europe and Asia.
For me personally - part of the issue with nationalism movements promoting domestic production that is that they are often tied with racism/xenophobia and are often used as a ruse by some greedy person to promote their own business to the local market. They get people angry which creates free publicity and unearned brand loyalty.
In Australia, we have a number of very loud and outspoken racist politicians who allegedly believe in this country and want it to do well, but when you look at their actions they’re all wining and dining billionaires and only looking to attack Aboriginal or foreign people, not uplift all Australians to a brighter better future.
It sounds to me like the program you were a part of had noble intentions, but without knowing more details I have to assume it could easily have been affected some of the issues I’ve mentioned.
In the late 1990s in Australia we had similar attempts to promote domestic products in the supermarket. As a kid at the time I questioned why we’d buy local when global brands were higher quality and more familiar to me, especially as I’ve lived in Europe and Asia.
For me personally - part of the issue with nationalism movements promoting domestic production that is that they are often tied with racism/xenophobia and are often used as a ruse by some greedy person to promote their own business to the local market. They get people angry which creates free publicity and unearned brand loyalty.
In Australia, we have a number of very loud and outspoken racist politicians who allegedly believe in this country and want it to do well, but when you look at their actions they’re all wining and dining billionaires and only looking to attack Aboriginal or foreign people, not uplift all Australians to a brighter better future.
It sounds to me like the program you were a part of had noble intentions, but without knowing more details I have to assume it could easily have been affected some of the issues I’ve mentioned.