Well, sometimes biases are difficult to correct. I have somehow accepted
that this is just how the world works. I don't mean giving up as I will
still try to overcome the biases but I just don't get myself all riled
up over it. This does not apply to wine only but the more damaging one
is to people. I work in Civil Engineering and you will find that Client
prefer to pay a British Engineer 5 times the pay of a local Engineer
simply because he is British. And he is simply doing the work where a
local Engineer can easily do it and will do it better than him because
the local Engineer understands local construction practice better. I can
understand if the works are very specialised where locals may not have
the experience but this applies to almost any works where Malaysians or
Asians have better knowledge. Well, like wine, we still seems to have
the mentality that Europeans/Americans are better. Same thing applies to
watches, Swiss manufacturers will look down on Seiko but if you look
closely at the quality of Seiko, you can see that Seiko has already
surpasses a lot of so-called luxury Swiss brand.
