We each have our own cultural traditions and "rules". Here in the west - and I imagine in Canada, it's acceptable, (if not perhaps approved of,) to hide stuff in microscopically small print - if the buyer can't be bothered to read the details.. then that's HIS problem. Big Supermarket chains have worked out that the range of goods that you know the price of is quite small. So, they reduce the price of that small range of goods to at (or even below!) the cost of production - giving you a kind of "subliminal" belief that if their baked beans, bread and milk are this cheap... then it's a shop with LOW PRICES. You assume that ALL their prices are low... Isn't that (since it's a carefully calculated attempt to mislead you) just as much "scamming" customers? yet it's been brought to a fine art by the largest retail chain in the USA... and nobody seems to object very loudly: it's just "how things are"
Knowing that something "isn't right" isn't the same as knowing that something's important. I think you may have to two confused. "Don't spit into the wind" is kind of universal. But - for example - "don't call someone "uncultured" unless you want a fist in the face" probably applies only in Russia.
It takes either a lot of travel - or a vivid imagination - to understand that other people really ARE different. It's kind of hard (like near-impossible) to convince most Westerners that most Arab women aren't forced to wear a Chador, Burkah or whatever, any more than your wife is "forced" by local laws not to walk the streets naked.
If you think that the Chinese involved in this scam are really just "wannabe Americans" with slanty-eyes and funny accents... then i suggest you take another look at the "instruction" leaflet that accompanied your player. That leaflet was produced by the BEST English speaker the manufacturer had access to. Do you think they'd EVER been outside of China? if not... then HOW exactly are they supposed to know what YOU consider to be "fair" or unfair"?
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