Re^9: Help to have real Perl's advantage

There was quite a bit of fear of Japan back in the… late ’80s? Certainly the ’90s. Japan was buying up a lot of US property, like China is now, and there were scare-mongering articles and news stories about it. I might have bought into it given enough time—the MSM does chip away at one—but finally read some level-headed analysis about it somewhere that explained two key reasons the whole thing was silly–

Both the Dutch and the English owned more of the US.
The Japanese were mostly just getting soaked by predatory realtors who exploited their naïveté.

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Re^10: Help to have real Perl's advantage by LanX (Saint) on Jan 12, 2022 at 15:15 UTC
> Certainly the ’90s. Japan was buying up a lot of US property Wasn't there a scene in "Back To The Future 2" where old Marty has to slime to his furious Japanese boss? :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^11: Help to have real Perl's advantage by bliako (Abbot) on Jan 12, 2022 at 16:08 UTC
I likewise remember a scene from "Mosquito Coast" where Harisson Ford complains about nothing from USA is sold in the US hardware store and leaves with a "sayonara!". Signs of times.	[reply]