Ramin on Mexico going red, Cynthia on avoiding the blue pill, Kwan on Chinese civilization, Billy Bob with Ben Tóth's new outline and Jeff goes Sino-sexy.
China Writers' Group is your one-stop brain shop for understanding our reality behind the West's Big Lie Propaganda Machine headlines!
Pictured: the Chinese are very matter-of-fact about sexuality, as long as it is not vulgar or pornographic. Sex shops dot the countryside. Outside hospitals and clinics on signboards, it is not unusual to see cross-sections of male and female reproductive anatomy, comic book flaccid penises and tired ovaries, to discuss reproductive medical issues. My Chinese students are much less sex-obsessed than Western adolescents and out-of-wedlock births are still relatively rare.
Above are two rock formations in Danxia Mountain UNESCO Geopark, Guangdong Province. No surprises, on the left it’s called “Male Essence” and on the right, “Female Essence”. We were just there and large middle- and high school groups were having their photos taken with these celebrated geological wonders. Evelyne bought a Chinese fan with their images. You can get key chains frig magnets too!
It's about time Mexico went red (again - as it had during the term of Lázaro Cárdenas in the 1930's).
Mexico's president elect has spoken at length about how neoliberalism has not worked in Latin America, and she is correct. Even with unfettered corruption and nepotism, until Carlos Salinas and NAFTA, Mexico's governments managed to keep the urban poor fed with staples through subsidies (the rural population didn't fare as well), but when neoliberalism took hold and subsidies were removed, a wave of criminality swept through and made once-safe Mexico very dangerous indeed.
So we can thank neoliberalism for poverty, crime, cartels, over-population, and mass migration to the border with the u.s. to take slave jobs in the maquila (with the hope of crossing the border), among other social and economic ills.
Lovely island.was there during Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago. So many worried answerphone messages when we got back when we were nowhere near.