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...developing country, try peer-to-peer lending. Kiva.org started the trend, which lets you lend as little as $25 to the entrepreneur of your choosing and track the recipient's progress online. Now there are specialized sites like Wokai.org, which provides microloans in rural China. Wokai is Mandarin for "I start...
...between familiar and unfamiliar products - a much longer list this time, including "your regular brand" of deodorant vs. "a new one that looks interesting" at the same price, a free download from a band you know vs. one from a recommended band you don't and orange juice vs. "mandarin guava juice...
After being imprisoned for crusading against apartheid, Nelson Mandela spent countless hours splitting rocks on South Africa's Robben Island. Since 1949, some 50 million Chinese have passed through a system of prison camps known as laogai, which translates from Mandarin as "reform through labor." According to the Laogai Research Foundation, an organization devoted to chronicling the practice's atrocities, approximately 6 million Chinese are imprisoned in this vast system of forced-labor camps at any one time. Millions more have died while toiling in cramped, pestilential conditions with meager food rations...
...couple pulls me aside once we mention we’ve studied some Mandarin in college and asks me about the United States, Hong Kong, Harvard. Occasionally the husband translates for me as he explains what to notice about Taiwan–how friendly people are, how they are eager to talk to foreigners. He taught himself English from a book and says I am his second chance to practice with a native speaker...
...economic discrimination and travel restrictions. In addition, China is not the only country in which minorities are underprivileged. Europe and the U.S. both face the problem of minorities that are not properly integrated. But in the Chinese case, things seem to be different: for example, the injunction to speak Mandarin at schools and universities in Xinjiang is seen as oppression rather than helping integration. Images of the Chinese police responding to riots with violence are only part of the picture. Matthias Paul, AUGSBURG, GERMANY...