I was today years old when I found out that the Mandarin that the American English expression "gung ho" is based off of literally means "industrial cooperative". I am passing this information along in the hopes that someone will write the thinkpiece that this deserves

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including racist movies about Asian takeovers of US car manufacture like 1986's Gung Ho: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho...

Don't know if you're ready for this 1986 classic starring Michael Keaton.

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Tariffs can’t fix culture.
Watch Gung Ho (1986).
Japan saves a U.S. factory. Pride almost kills it.

You want jobs? Start with humility.
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#MAGA #Trump #Tariffs

Gung-Ho (t)

T. J. "King" Kong picked himself up, spit out a mouthful of sand and thought, "that was a hell of a ride! I wonder where my cowboy hat landed?"

Death Valley National Park, California 2013
#Gung_Ho #Hogwash_Book_Four #sand #Death_Valley_National_Park #California
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Who here remembers the Ron Howard movie - Gung Ho?

The story portrays the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title phrase is an Americanized Chinese term).

I thought it was a great commentary at that time.
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Can't wait for the modern equivalent of Gung Ho en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho...

My favorite thing the U.S. learned from the Chinese Communist party is that “gung ho,” a USMC battle cry, came from the report of a U.S. marine advisor to the Peoples’ Liberation Army en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho