MADE IN USA
Yeghishe Metsarents
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12:58:59 – 22/03/2010
The Russian "Vesti" news program informs that the mark "Made
in USA" will soon become history because under the conditions of
globalization, the greater part of the American goods is produced out
of the U.S. borders. The example, the Russian channels brings is the
Levi’s jeans, the last pair of which was produced in the U.S. in 2003,
and now the company produces jeans in Asia and Latin America. As the
Russian channel notes even baseball balls are produced out of the U.S.
The channel concludes that soon the U.S. flag will stop being American
either because the 1, 5 percent of its production takes place abroad.
This information is really interesting. Once again, the thesis on
the oldness of the perception of a state is confirmed. On the other
hand, in reality, the modernity of the perception of a "state" and
its permanent vitality is confirmed. The fact, that if a state is
unable to solve essential problems does not mean that the concept of a
"state" became old or lost its significance and role, is confirmed. A
state is the one which is able to clearly formulate its interests
making them clear to all the people who want to live in accord with
this interest as well as it manages to imagine what interest they
personally have from the life built around that axis.
The U.S. perhaps, gives the best example of it. Not the American
production is fused with the world, as the Russian TV tries to present,
but the world is mixed with the American production. In other words,
"Made in USA" does not disappear but broadens its borders. This is
the classic example of formulating state interests, posing problems
and solving them. The U.S. does not reach this through propaganda
manipulations, emperor-worship, like in case of Russia, but showed
clearly to its people that it is the most powerful country in the
world. In addition, the expression of their success was not in words
but in actions. Of course, there were failures too. But the fact is
that their correlation, even after the September 11 terror, Iraq war,
Afghan war, economic crisis, did not bring about a situation, when
the American society perceives its country as a stranger structure
to its problems.