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I have no problem with the master carver being Chinese.
I recall how people howled about the architect of the Vietnam Memorial being a person born of Chinese parents (although she was born in USA). The memorial is as it should be: a very moving experience. I hope this new memorial is also.
What of the use of Chinese labor(unpaid) and Chinese stone?
As to those who think no-one in the USA was capable of accomplishing such a carving...
Good to see another apathetic Ummericun....
Funny how when 'evil corporations' ship jobs overseas it is a tragedy,having a national monument sculpted by a Chinese government employee,assembled by Chinese nationals and made from Chinese stone is okay...
LOVE IT!!!!
Y'all keep posting,this is hilarious.
As to shopping for granite,actually people DO ask where it is from and those who only care to have granite buy Chinese,it is used commercially a lot because it is....CHEAP.
And radioactive it seems.
Ya, ya, keep yapping. We heard it all before when they built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial . Fast forward to today and no one who sees The Wall cares---anymore---that it was made with granite that came from India.
Ya, ya, keep yapping. We heard it all before when they built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial . Fast forward to today and no one who sees The Wall cares---anymore---that it was made with granite that came from India.
Well apart from the sculptor was American in that case...LOL.
Lets go over this one more time....
Chinese government paid sculptor.
Chinese unpaid laborers.
Chinese stone.
EXACTLY the same...
keep up the posting,it makes it more fun to show the apathy of Ummerricans like yourself.
Ya, ya, keep yapping. We heard it all before when they built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial . Fast forward to today and no one who sees The Wall cares---anymore---that it was made with granite that came from India.
thats what i said before. that nobody would care in 2 months.
i dont think anyone cares now anyways, except a few.
most people just want to see the monument. they dont care who made it.
KING 'MONUMENT TO GREED'
WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil-rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 to use his words and image -- and at least one scholar thinks that Dr. King would find such an arrangement offensive.
The memorial is being paid for almost entirely through a fund-raising campaign led by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation.
"I don't think the Jefferson family, the Lincoln family [or] any other group of family ancestors has been paid a licensing fee for a memorial in Washington," said Cambridge University historian David Garrow, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Dr. King. ". . . [He would've been] absolutely scandalized."
Financial documents revealed that the foundation paid $761,160 in 2007 to Intellectual Properties Management Inc., an entity run by the King family. They also showed that a $71,700 "management" fee was paid to the family estate in 2003.
Well apart from the sculptor was American in that case...LOL.
Lets go over this one more time....
Chinese government paid sculptor.
Chinese unpaid laborers.
Chinese stone.
EXACTLY the same...
keep up the posting,it makes it more fun to show the apathy of Ummerricans like yourself.
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Originally Posted by oz in SC
I actually agree,most Ummerricans like yourself and Wayland Woman are apathetic and do not care...the reason this happened in the first place is apathy.
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You really like to label anyone one who disagrees with you as "unAmerican" don't you. Better be careful. Insults like that are against the TOS.
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I actually agree,most Ummerricans like yourself and Wayland Woman are apathetic and do not care...the reason this happened in the first place is apathy.
Most people just want a TV.They don't care who made it.
Most people just want a car.They don't care who made it.
Most people just want a fridge.They don't care who made it.
Most people just want a t-shirt.They don't care who made it.
Most people just want a computer.They don't care who made it.
Most people just want a US flag.They don't care who made it.
Most people just want a ANYTHING.They don't care who made it.
But oddly enough,most people want more jobs in America....
God, Ummerricans are stupid.
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