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Tag Archives: China
The Need For Gun Control
Today twenty schoolchildren were killed in Connecticut by a madman with a Sig Sauer and a Glock. It seems that these types of shootings are becoming more and more frequent. On Tuesday two people were killed with an AR-15 Rifle … Continue reading
Why These Olympics Are So Much Less Interesting Than the Last Ones
The host of the 2012 Olympic Games is the United Kingdom, which has been a very boring country ever since losing its empire. Since then the U.K. has happily bubbled along as a wealthy European country which has studiously avoided doing anything that would make news. The London Olympics have thus been reduced to a mere sporting event. Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Europe, Other
Tagged 2008 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics, Beijing, China, England, exciting, Great Britain, London, Media, news, United Kingdom
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How the Media Portrays Africa, China, and India Differently
The media always shows India and China as making great progress. China and India are on the path to the good life. Thus the elite families portrayed in this album.
Africa, on the other hand, is perpetually portrayed as an impoverished wasteland. Dictators, starvation, war – it’s hell. Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Media
Tagged Africa, China, food, Hungry Planet, India, Media, media portrayal, Peter Menzel, poor, rich, Time Magazine
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A Review of “The Clash of Civilizations”
In 1996 scholar Samuel P. Huntington wrote a famous book titled “The Clash of Civilizations.” Huntington postulated that after the Cold War Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Foreign Affairs, Middle East
Tagged Asia, China, international relations, Islam, Japan, Samuel P. Huntington, state, The Clash of Civilizations, United States, West
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A Very Interesting Story About Cheap Chinese Goods
We don’t normally think about Chinese goods being cheaper than those from a country poorer than China. And yet it happens. Continue reading
