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Re: China builds world's fastest computer .
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunit...irport-workers-sloppy-loading-goes-viral.html
Did you or your parents emigrate to Canada?Just wonder what would the reaction of all the above be if the " fastest computer" was invented in Canada .hahahaaha what a .......!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunit...irport-workers-sloppy-loading-goes-viral.html
China's fastest-growing cities for millionaires
China's fastest-growing cities for millionaires
By Alanna Petroff @AlannaPetroff June 19, 2013: 10:52 AM ET
The population of multi-millionaires in no-name Chinese cities is growing at a breakneck pace. Case in point: Chongqing's multi-millionaire population grew by nearly 80% between 2007 and 2012.
LONDON (CNNMoney)
Move over Beijing and Shanghai!
Make room for some new up-and-coming Chinese cities where multi-millionaires are taking over.
But the thing is, most Westerners have probably never heard of these cities.
How about Chongqing? Or maybe Hangzhou?
New research from WealthInsight shows Chongqing was the fastest growing city for multi-millionaires in China between 2007 and 2012. Chongqing's multi-millionaire population grew by nearly 80% in that time period and the city now boasts 96 ultra high net worth individuals with more than $30 million in assets.
Chengdu and Fuzhou's multi-millionaire population also ballooned by 60% in the same period. The latest data shows Chengdu has 120 multi-millionaires and Fuzhou has 67.
By comparison, Hong Kong had 2,560 multi-millionaire residents at the end of 2012, making it the city with the most ultra-rich people. But its ultra high net worth population only grew by 16% in that same time period.
Related: China cracks down on military use of luxury cars
WealthInsight notes that its list of the top 10 fastest growing Chinese cities for multi-millionaires did not include any of the country's largest cities, showing that some wealth has begun transitioning away from these established commercial centers.
"Private banks and luxury goods companies should start targeting smaller cities such as Hangzhou and Wuhan," the report said.
Chinese tourists take over New York
Of the top 10 cities with the fastest growing populations of multi-millionaires, Hangzhou had the largest numbers -- 563 -- with a growth rate of 57%.
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Go back to China -China ...or is it China go to China . $
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China's fastest-growing cities for millionaires
By Alanna Petroff @AlannaPetroff June 19, 2013: 10:52 AM ET
LONDON (CNNMoney)
Move over Beijing and Shanghai!
Make room for some new up-and-coming Chinese cities where multi-millionaires are taking over.
But the thing is, most Westerners have probably never heard of these cities.
How about Chongqing? Or maybe Hangzhou?
New research from WealthInsight shows Chongqing was the fastest growing city for multi-millionaires in China between 2007 and 2012. Chongqing's multi-millionaire population grew by nearly 80% in that time period and the city now boasts 96 ultra high net worth individuals with more than $30 million in assets.
Chengdu and Fuzhou's multi-millionaire population also ballooned by 60% in the same period. The latest data shows Chengdu has 120 multi-millionaires and Fuzhou has 67.
By comparison, Hong Kong had 2,560 multi-millionaire residents at the end of 2012, making it the city with the most ultra-rich people. But its ultra high net worth population only grew by 16% in that same time period.
Related: China cracks down on military use of luxury cars
WealthInsight notes that its list of the top 10 fastest growing Chinese cities for multi-millionaires did not include any of the country's largest cities, showing that some wealth has begun transitioning away from these established commercial centers.
"Private banks and luxury goods companies should start targeting smaller cities such as Hangzhou and Wuhan," the report said.
Chinese tourists take over New York
Of the top 10 cities with the fastest growing populations of multi-millionaires, Hangzhou had the largest numbers -- 563 -- with a growth rate of 57%.
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Go back to China -China ...or is it China go to China . $
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Re: China's fastest-growing cities for millionaires
There are still more millionaires in N America than all of China.
What is going on in China now is probably similar to what went on in Japan in the mid eighties !!
Japan then made a few serious financial mistakes and they have been in the doldrums ever since..
It will be interesting to see if China can maintain control of their financial markets for the next 5 to 10 yrs!!
This is something they have no experience in!!
There are still more millionaires in N America than all of China.
What is going on in China now is probably similar to what went on in Japan in the mid eighties !!
Japan then made a few serious financial mistakes and they have been in the doldrums ever since..
It will be interesting to see if China can maintain control of their financial markets for the next 5 to 10 yrs!!
This is something they have no experience in!!
Re: China's fastest-growing cities for millionaires
Chinese have no experience in salesmanship? Where did you park your spaceship?
Chinese have no experience in salesmanship? Where did you park your spaceship?
Re: China's fastest-growing cities for millionaires
But what about billionaires? [Insert that Facebook quote.] The Economist also lists the cities by number of billionaires, and New York City comes out on top. USA! USA! USA! Here are the top five:
01. New York City: 70 billionaires (8.3 million people)
02. Moscow: 64 billionaires (11.5 million)
03. London 54 billionaires (8.2 million)
04. Hong Kong: 40 billionaires (7 million)
05. Beijing: 29 billionaires (20.7 million)
And here are some other statistics:
• New York City: Over 1.7 million people live in poverty.
• Moscow: The average monthly salary in Russia is around $746.
• London: 430 neighborhoods in London have become poorer since 2004.
• Hong Kong: The median home price is almost 13 times the median household income.
• Beijing: Air pollution levels were 35 times the suggested standard earlier this year.
The Economist just posted a chart—as they do every day in a relevantly-named “Daily chart” feature—comparing cities with the world’s most millionaires. The axes organize between cities with the most millionaires per thousand people and what percentage of the country’s millionaires live in that city. Tokyo has the most millionaires, but Frankfurt, by far, has the most millionaires-per-thousand with 218.
But what about billionaires? [Insert that Facebook quote.] The Economist also lists the cities by number of billionaires, and New York City comes out on top. USA! USA! USA! Here are the top five:
01. New York City: 70 billionaires (8.3 million people)
02. Moscow: 64 billionaires (11.5 million)
03. London 54 billionaires (8.2 million)
04. Hong Kong: 40 billionaires (7 million)
05. Beijing: 29 billionaires (20.7 million)
And here are some other statistics:
• New York City: Over 1.7 million people live in poverty.
• Moscow: The average monthly salary in Russia is around $746.
• London: 430 neighborhoods in London have become poorer since 2004.
• Hong Kong: The median home price is almost 13 times the median household income.
• Beijing: Air pollution levels were 35 times the suggested standard earlier this year.
Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Not long ago I shared this post, in which a Hindu princess shares her less than admiring views of American women. Now, I found a 1942 article by a Chinese women in which similar negative views of American women are expressed. Unfortunately, the article ends abruptly and I cannot find the rest of it, but luckily the part I offer here is chock full of excellent insight.
UPDATE: A commenter found the rest of the article. Here is another good excerpt:
Wow.......................
Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Not long ago I shared this post, in which a Hindu princess shares her less than admiring views of American women. Now, I found a 1942 article by a Chinese women in which similar negative views of American women are expressed. Unfortunately, the article ends abruptly and I cannot find the rest of it, but luckily the part I offer here is chock full of excellent insight.
"I have come to feel that too many American women are failures as women. They seem to have graduated in everything but the natural art of being females. Somehow, in the headlong rush for feminism, they have lost their femininity."
"I use to wonder when I read American papers and magazines why they gave so much space to "it" and "oomph" and "sex appeal". Now I think I know at least part of the answer. Especially among the sophisticated, but buy imitation also among others, femininity, has been glamorized out of existence: the real thing has become as rare as the dodo and every, man or woman, is seeking it desperately."
"I use to wonder when I read American papers and magazines why they gave so much space to "it" and "oomph" and "sex appeal". Now I think I know at least part of the answer. Especially among the sophisticated, but buy imitation also among others, femininity, has been glamorized out of existence: the real thing has become as rare as the dodo and every, man or woman, is seeking it desperately."
"It seems to me that American women are making some tragic mistakes. They have allowed Big Business to take femininity away from them and turn it into a product. It has become something you shop for on the screen, on glossy paper and in drugstores. Femininity is being manufactured and completely distorted in its package wrappings. As a result, the American city women, with their standardized faces, legs, shoes, and figures, seem so uniform that we of the east cannot recognize them individually."
"American city women seem to come off the production line so rapidly that they look like members of the Rockette dancing chorus. If a man missing the type he wants one year, he will finder her when she comes off the high school or college assembly line the next year."
"American city women seem to come off the production line so rapidly that they look like members of the Rockette dancing chorus. If a man missing the type he wants one year, he will finder her when she comes off the high school or college assembly line the next year."
"When he marries her, she will take him for granted as a meal ticket just as the one he missed would have done. She will expect him to keep her better than she has ever been kept before and would be shocked by the idea--an idea that is so natural to a Chinese wife--that she must share the full burden."
"At parties she will be more provocative to other men and will have acquired a new glamor in being a young married woman. Even is she is "fond" of her man, she somehow regards the whole arrangement as the unavoidable preliminary to a divorce. I am constantly amazed by how well verse even happily married American women seem to be in the intricacies of divorce law especially as it affects alimony.
Unbelievable. "At parties she will be more provocative to other men and will have acquired a new glamor in being a young married woman. Even is she is "fond" of her man, she somehow regards the whole arrangement as the unavoidable preliminary to a divorce. I am constantly amazed by how well verse even happily married American women seem to be in the intricacies of divorce law especially as it affects alimony.
"No wonder there are so many gray haired young men in your country, and so many tinted haired women lunching alone or in groups in the autumn of their lives!"
This reminds me of all the single women out there who continue to live it up, without any thought to their declining market value. "Our Chinese ideal is quite the reverse of the mass produced glamor women of your country. I am myself, one of the new "emancipated" generation of Chinese women, and passed as a feminist at home. But I am distinctly "backward", if not, quite primitive, in contrasts to your women here. They have emancipated to the point where they are scarcely women any more, even in the elementary biological sense."
"They are instinctively and without question devoted to their families and their husbands. From the beginning of their lives Chinese women are taught that their main job is to be real woman. We are taught in our school books that there are three obediences and four virtues and we cling to them more tightly than to the one "virtue" the Anglo-Saxon language associates with its women. Way back in the second century A.D. China had its first "career woman". Her name was Ban Tso. After being widowed, and at the emperor's request, she recorded that women should be polite, know when to talk and when to keep silent, be well dressed, and not extravagant in anything. These precepts have become second nature with us. The result is that an unmarried Chinese woman is a rare person."
Our main job is to be "a real woman", one devoted to their family and husband. Nothing else should come above. These virtues she mentions is the femininity that has been "glamorized out of style". This is what makes one feminine, not the make-up, the designer clothes, or the accessorized girlfriends. "They are instinctively and without question devoted to their families and their husbands. From the beginning of their lives Chinese women are taught that their main job is to be real woman. We are taught in our school books that there are three obediences and four virtues and we cling to them more tightly than to the one "virtue" the Anglo-Saxon language associates with its women. Way back in the second century A.D. China had its first "career woman". Her name was Ban Tso. After being widowed, and at the emperor's request, she recorded that women should be polite, know when to talk and when to keep silent, be well dressed, and not extravagant in anything. These precepts have become second nature with us. The result is that an unmarried Chinese woman is a rare person."
"In America, I have noticed many plain women have the most attractive and attentive husbands, while many beautiful women are lonely and nervous and cannot "hold their man". This is easy for Chinese to understand, because we can see that these plain women have learned how to be real women--a lesson Chinese women have been learning for many thousand years. Chinese women are taught that they are the beginning of life, but not the end. They have a philosophy that lies close to the earth the cultivate. "Other gave birth to us, we give birth to others." We have sweated, toiled and starved by the side of our men--that is why we can defy flood, famine, and invasions as we are now doing. Divorce is painful to us. It is as disfiguring as losing a leg, or being condemned to spend the rest of one's life with a scarred face."
"American women, when they marry, want to "preserve their independence." They insist on their right to be attractive to other men. Well, they get their independence at the price of giving up their unique role as women. When we Chinese women marry, we want to believe that we have molded our lives into another life. We feel it an act of creation. We believe that "woman is made of water and man of clay." The meaning of this is that they clay of man cracks unless it is permeated by water--a discovery made by the Creator when He made man of clay and saved him from crumbling into nothingness by adding water."
This article really didn't leave me much to say, except, wow! Everyday it becomes clearer. "American women, when they marry, want to "preserve their independence." They insist on their right to be attractive to other men. Well, they get their independence at the price of giving up their unique role as women. When we Chinese women marry, we want to believe that we have molded our lives into another life. We feel it an act of creation. We believe that "woman is made of water and man of clay." The meaning of this is that they clay of man cracks unless it is permeated by water--a discovery made by the Creator when He made man of clay and saved him from crumbling into nothingness by adding water."
UPDATE: A commenter found the rest of the article. Here is another good excerpt:
"Life has been relatively easy for American women and perhaps explains their basic tragedy. Even childbirth has been simplified for them into a painless dream. Indeed, they have solved every problem in life except how to be women and how to understand woman's natural instincts. Recently, I watched a lot of mass produced city women here looking hungrily at a motion picture of sturdy pioneer life. It seemed to me that they are really hungry for simple things beyond highflown philosophizing: children, homes under their own direct care, and husbands who clay they can completely mold their own characters. "
"I realize that there are millions of exceptions, that there are American women close to the elemental pattern of our Chinese womanhood. But the national idea, worshiped in your mass literature and mass entertainment, is the glamor woman, so that even the last glamorous American woman shares in the machine made pattern. I think that much of this glamor woman's confusion is in the nature of the word and the idea of love. With us Chinese, love is not a diversion or a pastime or a career. Our language is very descriptive. The Chinese word for love means "gift of the heart" and it implies a gift that can be given only once, since there is but one heart"
"I realize that there are millions of exceptions, that there are American women close to the elemental pattern of our Chinese womanhood. But the national idea, worshiped in your mass literature and mass entertainment, is the glamor woman, so that even the last glamorous American woman shares in the machine made pattern. I think that much of this glamor woman's confusion is in the nature of the word and the idea of love. With us Chinese, love is not a diversion or a pastime or a career. Our language is very descriptive. The Chinese word for love means "gift of the heart" and it implies a gift that can be given only once, since there is but one heart"
Wow.......................
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Wow is right......with your ad-nauseum fixation with China....I would suggest you move back there since you love it sooooo much...:roll:
Wow is right......with your ad-nauseum fixation with China....I would suggest you move back there since you love it sooooo much...:roll:
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
;-).........Aww c'mon Skiin........That report from 1942 was really in mode, and quite up to date..............................not
And, do we give a shlt ?
Bout '42 they were still binding their feet. Nice recommendation to a civilization.
;-).........Aww c'mon Skiin........That report from 1942 was really in mode, and quite up to date..............................not
And, do we give a shlt ?
Bout '42 they were still binding their feet. Nice recommendation to a civilization.
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
It is interesting that in American women are valued. In China baby girls are aborted and abandoned and viewed as worthless. That is where this attitude landed them.
The view taken of women in China is tragic.
Soon women will be highly valued though and men will be used as army fodder because the men will be seen as expendable since there are now so many of them and not enough women to match up.
It is interesting that in American women are valued. In China baby girls are aborted and abandoned and viewed as worthless. That is where this attitude landed them.
The view taken of women in China is tragic.
Soon women will be highly valued though and men will be used as army fodder because the men will be seen as expendable since there are now so many of them and not enough women to match up.
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Hilarious.
Hilarious.
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
I wonder how Chinese women would 'evolve' after settling a country alongside their men? After finding out that they are their partners and equals more than they are different?
I wonder how Chinese women would 'evolve' after settling a country alongside their men? After finding out that they are their partners and equals more than they are different?
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
It is quite odd that they didnt seem to think of the long term consequences of those actions. Or didnt care. It doesnt take a genius to figure it out.
Im surprised the article didnt mention foot binding at all. That was pretty popular over there for a very long time. A true art - for sadistic control freaks.
It is quite odd that they didnt seem to think of the long term consequences of those actions. Or didnt care. It doesnt take a genius to figure it out.
Im surprised the article didnt mention foot binding at all. That was pretty popular over there for a very long time. A true art - for sadistic control freaks.
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
I think the men and the OP would take issue with that. Certainly the OP. He'd be looking for another country I would think.
I actually saw the skeletal remains of a Chinese woman's bound foot in the Harvard Medical School Museum. Brutal. The woman was never able to walk... but she had a small foot and that is what was important!
I think the men and the OP would take issue with that. Certainly the OP. He'd be looking for another country I would think.
I actually saw the skeletal remains of a Chinese woman's bound foot in the Harvard Medical School Museum. Brutal. The woman was never able to walk... but she had a small foot and that is what was important!
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Although I disagree with the Chinese version of what it means to be feminine, I think that the article makes a lot of good points about North American women, especially the part about buying their sexuality, assembly line fashions and figures: a Madison Avenue version of what it is to be feminine.
Although I disagree with the Chinese version of what it means to be feminine, I think that the article makes a lot of good points about North American women, especially the part about buying their sexuality, assembly line fashions and figures: a Madison Avenue version of what it is to be feminine.
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Is that unique to North American women? Because it sounds to me like western culture in general (and Japanese culture, and Indian culture, and Chinese culture more and more), both male and female. Men tie their masculinity up in corporate nonsense like sports teams and cars, just as much as women tie theirs up in fashion.
Is that unique to North American women? Because it sounds to me like western culture in general (and Japanese culture, and Indian culture, and Chinese culture more and more), both male and female. Men tie their masculinity up in corporate nonsense like sports teams and cars, just as much as women tie theirs up in fashion.
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Nothing to see here...
...please remain in the Land of Nod
Nothing to see here...
...please remain in the Land of Nod
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
Anyone here, other than me, married to a Chinese woman?
Anyone here, other than me, married to a Chinese woman?
Re: Have American Women Lost the Art of Being a Woman? A Chinese Woman's Perspective
china
apparently just because she's Chinese if you go by his posting obsession. Nothing to do with who she is as an individual
china
apparently just because she's Chinese if you go by his posting obsession. Nothing to do with who she is as an individual