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'American Owned' nail salon sign seen as offensive to some
WOAI ^ | 04/03/2013

Posted on 04/03/2013 12:23:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: a fool in paradise

I wonder if Mr Thayer would be happy if the highly trained and certified beauticians of the salon showed him their Made in Vietnam underwear. I know I would.

And the owner should really go all the way American and replace that Austrian phrase “St. Tropez” in the name with something domestic like “East L.A.”


41 posted on 04/03/2013 1:43:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

These days EVERYONE is offended about something or other.

I wonder what this thin-skinned generation of Americans would have done in response to Hitler and Tojo.... probably piss and moan all day and all night as Europe and Australia fell.


42 posted on 04/03/2013 1:49:18 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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“I wonder what this thin-skinned generation of Americans would have done in response to Hitler and Tojo.... probably piss and moan all day and all night as Europe and Australia fell.”

Know what? Screw ‘em. We don’t need them. In 1776 only 17% of the population actively supported the revolution. Do you think we can muster that? And that’s why they want us disarmed.


43 posted on 04/03/2013 1:58:23 PM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Jack Hammer
I wonder what this thin-skinned generation of Americans would have done in response to Hitler and Tojo.... probably piss and moan all day and all night as Europe and Australia fell.

Wilson got us involved in WWI. After that, the 500K casualties we took in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and so on, were inevitable. For over a century after independence, we stayed out of foreign wars - the Napoleonic, Crimean and Franco-Prussian conflicts were merely curiosities on the foreign news pages. But the lure (and ephemeral prestige) of foreign entanglements proved irresistible to the schemers in Washington, such that many large-scale 20th century wars became generators of obituaries in hometown papers. And that is how we ended up with Vietnamese-owned nail salons in the middle of Texas.

44 posted on 04/03/2013 2:47:57 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Joe Boucher; Jyotishi

The problem with that is ....a lot of Patels who are US citizen can and do put out their own “American owned” signs. So now Americans would have to be more specific and say something like “White American owned”.....or “Whitey owned”. lol


45 posted on 04/03/2013 3:26:26 PM PDT by ravager (I)
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To: goodnesswins

All sounds much better and more dedicated when the ‘USA’ is meant. You can add ‘of America’ if you see It that way. However in today’s world especially considering Mexico and Central America I much prefer to limit my homeland specifically to USA. Picky I realize but much closer to my reality for being a citizen.


46 posted on 04/03/2013 3:36:26 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Joe Boucher; Jyotishi

The funny thing is “American owned” stores sell Chinese junk and “American owned” gas stations sell Saudi oil.


47 posted on 04/03/2013 3:41:46 PM PDT by ravager (I)
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To: noinfringers2

point taken


48 posted on 04/03/2013 4:30:03 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It is news. My salon is Korean or Vietnamese or something like that, and although they do a great job on my manicures, I don’t understand a word they are saying.


49 posted on 04/03/2013 5:08:53 PM PDT by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage (Bring back King George III, all he tried to tax was the tea.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I go to an American owned American nail salon. Everyone that works there is American and the owner is a full fledged right wing conservative American They all happen to be originally from Vietnam.


50 posted on 04/03/2013 5:34:29 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Zhang Fei

Hmmm... I thought we ended up with Vietnamese nail salons in the middle of Texas because a courageous generation of young Americans went to Southeast Asia to put a finger in the dike of spreading world communism.

Silly me.


51 posted on 04/04/2013 2:23:50 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Here’s something that’s puzzled me for years now. How do ethnic Asian restaurants become exempted from equal opportunity hiring? I’ve never seen any caucasian employees at a “Vietnamese” restaurant. Not many (or any) caucasian or negro employees at Chinese restaurants, either.

Love me some Pho, however. :-)


52 posted on 04/04/2013 7:44:32 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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