Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Country of origin
From: Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 16:02:55 +0100

le 30.11.2000 16:20, Alan Hull à hull@telia.com a écrit :

> It has also been said that because the Portuguese workers are trained
> by Germans, the product they make is indistinguishable from the genuine
> article.  That is a piece of politically correct BS.  To illustrate the
> fallacy of this argument select eleven fit men at random.  Tell them
> that they are about to become the worlds best soccer team.  Send them
> away to Brazil for intensive training for many years.  Then play them
> against any professional soccer team.  They will lose because there is
> such a thing as natural born ability which no amount of training can
> surpass.  Natural ability works at all levels, interlectual as well as
> manual dexterity.  Its genetic.

It's genetic? Are you serious?
To my knowledge nobody selects people at random for work or any other
activity. Normally you are selected for a task. When I get an assignment it
is because of my skills in photography, not because of my nationality, or my
genes, or my racial background. When I hire an assistant or an accountant
it's because of their skills - nothing else.

Tarek
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