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Article: Recall ethnic jokes? Look who's laughing now
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2008
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With globalization, our whole economic world has been turned
upside down. It seems so has our ethnic humor.
While one could say that making fun of another is not funny,
nonetheless we seem to do a lot of it. And the targets of our not-
so-humorous jokes have changed along with the world. Remember in the
'60s we Americans used to snicker about trinkets and other simple
toys that had the label "Made in Japan"? Then in rebuilding its
whole industrial base, destroyed in World War II, the Japanese
embraced the quality-improvement teachings of a relatively unknown
American professor of statistics, Edwards Deming.
Deming had ironically worked to see to it that the U.S. arsenal
of freedom was mighty ...