>It happens in the U.S. too. Many people assume if it was manufactured in Japan it must be better than a comparable or like product manuafactured in the U.S. And less expensive to boot.
Must be a World-wide phenomenon. Perhaps, mistrust against things you know all-too-well!
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)