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Re:94% of Americans Cannot Name One Chinese Brand. Can you? by loudmax on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @02:55PM (#5481371)
I wouldn't be surprised if 94% of Americans didn't realize that Lenovo was a Chinese brand. Huawei and Haier sound Chinese; Lenovo doesn't. Our letter "v" isn't even a sound in Mandarin.
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Re:94% of Americans Cannot Name One Chinese Brand. Can you? by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @03:06PM (#5481437)
Haier is a German name. It was picked, in part, to make the firm sound less Chinese.
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Re:94% of Americans Cannot Name One Chinese Brand. Can you? by mpyne on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @03:04PM (#5481420)
I actually thought Haier was a German-sounding brand, I didn't know it was Chinese.
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