[whereasandsoforth]

I was ready to give the benefit of doubt, but I have to conclude that I do not like her remarks. I understand what she is saying is coming from a business point of view, but that view is not helpful. She steps on too many toes getting to her "fingers", as far as I'm concerned.

Her story about the businessmen in China put a red chap on my behind. Any civilized person would complain loud and long about having to go potty in a hole in the floor. I would think these complaints would be well understood in a country that has been around practically since the dawn of mankind. Where were the Chinese sensibilities regarding the American culture? They must realize that Americans do not go poo-poo into holes in the floor. They couldn't find one toilet in all that vast geography to furnish these Americans such a basic creature comfort? I find that rude and very "middle finger" of these Chinese "hosts".

Now I gotta go make #2 in a bag of Fritos.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'm with you.

These men were not giving China a hand. They were giving China the finger. This finger was red, white and blue and had “the United States” stamped all over it.

Don't like it? Tough shiite. When the Chinese are able to maintain a civilized and hygenic standard on public health issues, then we'll stop treating them like uneducated riff-raff. Until then, if the shoe fits.