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Monday is Cinco de Mayo and I’d just like to give an early shout out: Vive Mexico! I love that country. Seriously. Where else can you get cheap beer, cheap prescriptions, great hospitality, and your name written on a grain of rice (all on one street corner)? Certainly not here.

But the best part about Mexico, in my opinion, is that they hate China. A lot.

They refuse to import Chinese goods. Hmmm… that’s an idea. I wonder why we haven’t thought of that? Oh, right, because protesting the Olympic torch relay is a much better way of sending a message. Uh-huh.

Mexico, unlike US, is proud. They view cheap-labor Chinese products as competition for cheap-labor products from their own country. And they’re right. Why would the Mexican government want Mexicans buying cheap shit from China when they could be buying cheap shit from Mexico? It just doesn’t make sense.

How serious are they about this policy? Well, Mexican officials recently banned a donation of shoes from a woman in Colorado because some of them were made in China. They don’t want that Chinese crap cluttering up their country. They’d rather have bobble-head turtles and horsehair blankets do the cluttering, thank you very much.

While I may not understand the boycott (I am American, after all), I do respect it. Mexico is apparently willing to sacrifice comfort and convenience for principle. Weird, right?

But is it smart or just plain loco?

These shoes were donations and supposed to go to a small village that desperately needs them. Keep in mind, these people don’t have any shoes — they’re basically walking around on hot coals all day. It’s not like the Mexican government is providing them with shoes made in Mexico. But, hey - no shoes are better than Chinese shoes (she says as she ties her Reeboks).

What do you think, dear reader? Chinese shoes or no shoes at all?

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