These threads keep coming up and pretty much the same things are stated again and again.
Like everyone, I have my preferences, whether from U.S., Japan, Switzerland, etc. But everyone has the right to choose which knives to buy, wherever they are made. I would never suggest to someone who will only buy USA-made knives to try out knives made in other countries. Likewise, I wouldn't try to insinuate that someone is somehow less patriotic because they buy and use foreign-made knives. People's beliefs in knives can, like many things, become like many people's views on religion. It's senseless to argue about it. In the end, I like what I like, and everyone else has their own likes/dislikes. Someone else's preferences have nothing to do with mine. Sometimes we may share preferences in common, and are able to share experiences/thoughts on that.
I will ask, how many people who automatically assume all knives made in any Asian country are assembled by slave labor in sweatshops, have actually been to and lived in said Asian countries? I mean, actually lived in a country for years, and not just among other American/Western ex-pats, but among the people of that country? To automatically assume any Asian manufacturing is done using slave labor is ignorant. Sure it happens. It's happened, and is probably still happening, right here in the U.S. Many people on the forums also confuse or intermix Taiwan and Mainland China as the same. They aren't. I spent nearly a decade in Taiwan.
Jim
The closest you can come is "assembled in the U.S. from domestic and foreign components." Even there, the percentage of foreign components might be surprising in some cases.
