It was amazing to me to walk around the night markets of Bangkok seeing products like this. We're very anglo-centric on this side of the world but if you spend time in the Pacific Rim you realize that we're just another market like everywhere else. I didn't fully understand import/export until I'd wandered around seeing products unavailable in the US but perfectly filling a gap, then seeing them in stores six months later. this is what globalization brings - an end to technological domination by brand. People will buy Apple because it's Apple, but they won't buy Apple because it doesn't give them something nobody else does (at least, not outside their walled garden). I own five or six no-name products that wouldn't exist if it weren't for the Night Markets.