Here’s a couple of books I’ve read that you might call diametrically opposed to each other, though both make for great reading. And, yes, you will be forced to make a general decision as to which title will most likely be reprinted in the not to distant future. The books: When China Rules The World by Martin Jacques and Why China Will Never Rule The World by Troy Parfitt.
I came across this piece by Christelyn Karazin from here: “…[concerning the accusation that most white men who date black women do it only for sex]. But when you see an increasing amount of black women with wedding rings on their fingers by their melanin-challenged partners, that judgement holds about as much water as a sieve. A man will not give you his name, bear children with you, and merge his finances so he can have some black jungle booty on the regular.”
America (aka Grand Banana Republic) is so slobbering peachy preachy at lambasting human rights abuses in other countries. Now the tables are turning on the most hypocritical nation on the planet. Yeap, China issues several reports on American human rights abuses. And guess what? They ring true. But of course you already knew that. Here.
Looks like the liberation of Indian women from stultifying cultural and religious traditions will be fought, not with outdated boring translated feminist texts from the West, but in colorful bikinis on the shapely. Models VS militants. Speaking of Indian women struggling against the oppressively maddening paradigms of traditions you might want to check out a 2009 documentary Love in India or, for example, the novel Miss India. Also India Becoming.
Please tell me this isn’t China’s secret ingredient for its continuing rise to Super Power status (and I thought Bai Ling’s movie Dumplings was fictional). (Oh, btw, it’s still too early to tell how this will affect my Asian fetish). Note: here’s an update on this gruesome story.
The good old American prison system: ugly to the bone (as in that song by George Thorogood, Bad to the Bone).
Yes, it’s happened (and of course you knew it would): Britain bans list names, as in blacklist, whitelist. Could the astronomers’ black hole list be next? Hell, could the very names black and white be banned next?
Though evidently he’s been through an ordeal with Chinese officials dissident Chen Guancheng might want to think twice about trying to get into the U.S. Just look at another Chinese student, Daniel Chong–left in a DEA detention room with no food or water for five days and forced to drink his own urine. Well, Chen, if you do manage to get here Welcome to the Grand Banana Republic (and be sure to bring a fresh water bottle).
