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From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Precocious Brand Loyalty
Message-ID: <7526@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 09:17:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 09:17:28 1985
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In article <281@rruxe.UUCP> debbiem@rruxe.UUCP (D. McBurnett) writes:
>>So why is he exhibiting staunch brand loyalties at age 4?
>
>Most children exhibit brand loyalties; 

I agree.  I remember when I was a kid, oh, about 5 or 6 years old,
growing up in Malawi far from a town, let alone a city (and remember
this was "dark Africa"), my (black) bosom buddy Baba and I did not
believe that there was a better car in the world than a Chev, nor
a worst car than a Ford.  (My parents had neither, his did not even
have a car).  Now I probably told Baba what I thought about a Chev
and a Ford, but where did I get it?  I was not in school yet and
we've been living out in the "bundus" (wilds) ever since I was born!
And why a Chev?  I am not an American (or Canadian) and Malawi 
(Nyassaland) was a Brittish Protectorate at the time, so it should
have been a Land Rover!