For those of you who drove a Japanese import in the 60’s/70’s/early 80’s, did you get any heat from family/friends/coworkers/general public about your choice of car? How bad was it? What were some of the consequences and what was the most extreme example you’ve seen or heard of?

This question applies to americans as well as some western europeans, whose auto industries were also in decline with the exception of germany.

This discussion might also be a good predictor of what will await the first owners of chinese cars when they do arrive in north america.

  • kyonkun_denwa@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I encourage anyone to read about the killing of Vincent Chin. He was a Chinese man who was beaten to death with a baseball bat by a Chrysler plant supervisor and his laid-off stepson after they assumed he was Japanese. The killers didn’t get any prison time and the local judge noted that they “weren’t the kind of men you send to jail”.

    Not sure how things work in Detroit but where I’m from, we lock people up after they beat someone else to death with a baseball bat in what is ultimately a racially motivated attack. Those two former Chrysler employees were losers of the highest caliber.