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Cameras Online? How The Shysters Work
earlylate writes "How do certain photo and electronics dealers thrive despite widely-circulated warnings by unhappy customers? According to a new investigative website "many apparently separate and competing dealers are actually jointly owned and run" and "go to great lengths to conceal their locations and management." Further, some comparison-shopping sites "are in effect marketing partners with their affiliates," the very dealers they rate. There's a contest based on the suspicious "flood of similar, glowing reviews some dealers receive," as well as links to several sources of information and advice for the careful online shopper."
There's even a term for this practice. It's called "modeling."
Seriously, other than the fact that you weren't offered money/clothes, what's your real beef here? That people wear clothes because they think it will confer some level of coolness to them? Surely you can't just be noticing this now?
Its not racist at all. Many cultures of eastern origin consider lying and deception a normal part of dealing with strangers, particularly in business transactions. It is one of the many reasons their cultures are total failures, with recent population growth allowed purely due to technology invented in Europe. It is also one of the reasons such primitive cultures value family connections above all else, those are the only relationships they trust.
There are specific cultural reasons for this behavior, and anyone who ignores them in furthering the grand egalitarian myth will be taken as a fool.
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It's great that those honorable, upstanding Europeans were so great with the Native Americans, then.