A Quick Voting Guide
We get plenty of advice about how to be a good or strong leader – ask others for input, don’t take all the credit, don’t micromanage … but these are modes of practice. When we look around, there is surprisingly little advice on the sort of moral qualities a leader should possess. Here is a quick review.
I m Perfect - Picture at an Exhibition
Until at least 2016, there was a fascination with western looking models in China, just as there has been with Asian looking models in the US. Women’s clothing stores are a major venue for other-looking models in ads and store windows. This upscale women’s clothing store at our local mall in Hangzhou featured a beaming, perhaps ecstatic sophisticated western woman, with long curled hair – the store’s image of perfection.
Everything old is new again – Inner Mongolia
If you’ve gotten tired of depressing news from Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong, there is a new oppression to watch in Inner Mongolia. As in the other provinces comprising mostly non-Han people, the new policy requires forced language change and erasing of traditional culture.
It is to laugh – or not ... more on culture wars in elementary math class ...
It’s not often that life imitates art so precisely. When it does, the result is frightening. But there it all is, on YouTube and Twitter.
First the art. Watch Alternative Math - A Short Film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw&t=17s from Ideaman. This is a nine minute recounting of a teacher’s existential crisis at trying to teach 2 + 2 = 4 in a modern progressive American school. The 2017 film is meant to be a parody, but then ….
Wokeness – and despair for democracy
Americans seem to have woken up to disparities in our society, particularly for black people. This is a good thing. Wokeness will go a ways toward fulfilling the promises suggested in the Declaration of Independence.
But there is a most disturbing part of wokeness that is not limited to racial matters, and that is the language fascism of the left. It is as dangerous to a free society as any fascism of the right and too close to what we can observe every day in China.
Lest We Forget June 4
In the social, economic, and cultural miasma that is the state of the world, we might let tomorrow slip by without notice.
A couple of old comments -
http://chinareflections.com/index.php/104-comments-on-the-news/402-how-to-end-june-4-et-al
