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1. Mark Whitaker
2. My Comment's Title
3. There is something about this following article that interests me, fascinates me, and/or makes me wonder what the article leaves out, etc. I can write as much as I want on this blog about my view on the article and the issues that it discusses. I can write about personal experiences that the article reminded me about. I can write about a different view of the same issues that the article mentions. I can convince people of something, express my intelligence, and express my emotion in this comment.
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1. Yao Lu
2. US charges China over subsidies
3. I found a news concerning about a WTO dispute between U.S. and China.
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I think this is a typical example of the relation between economic and politic-- they relates to each other and react to each other.
Of course this is not the first time that China is in face of charge from other countries. In fact the cases and charges are increasing. I think economic is the orginal reason to make up political decisions and the political policy sometimes works in a finacial way.
Also, from this news I can see the complicated relationship between US and China--the two gaints in the world who can't live either without each other nor too support to each other.
As this is the first week...I think I can find an excuse for my simple comment.
Brief of the news:
The United States has questioned China's pork subsidies in a letter posted on the website of the World Trade Organization (WTO), reflecting new tension between the two trading giants. The letter argues that pork and some of China's other agricultural products are unfairly exempted from taxes and enjoy government subsidies. And the Ministy of Commenrce said it had no commont.
the link: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/04/content_6996057.htm
1. Ji-A Ryu
2. the Big two kinds of powers
3. This article came from last May. If you are Korean or if you live in South Korea last May, you would know about that big event nationwide. As we all know, we mandated our rights to the politicians, so they actually have the right to decide the important policies and issues. Democracy happens from each members of people in a nation even though it seems the politicians have the right to decide. When they made a wrong decision, citizens have the right to express their resistance.
In this article, we can see the resistance against the policy which could affect the people's health and their young children's health dangerously. We can feel the power which people have made to protest and to affect the policy when we read this article.
We see the big two kinds of power here. One is the power which is institutionally organized. The other is the power which is naturally organized so it could be sort of less-organized and confusing sometimes. The naturally organized power could seem less powerful, but it could have world changed with the right of election in the future.
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Mad Cow Disease Fears Spark Mass Demonstrations in South Korea
Written by Gavin Hudson
Published on May 8th, 200821 CommentsPosted in Korea
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In Seoul, South Korea, this past Friday 10,000 people took to the streets in a candle light vigil to oppose US beef imports that many fear may be tainted with mad cow disease. Overnight, the number of peaceful protesters doubled and by Saturday night, 20,000 - 25,000 South Koreans held candles and raised their voices against American beef imports.
I joined the protests on Saturday to learn more.
The demonstrations targeted South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, self-declared “CEO of the Korea, Inc.,” who recently met with US President Bush to swallow a $20 billion free trade deal. The deal pivoted on South Korea’s consent to vastly increase US beef imports at the expense of its farmers and against the will of its citizens.
But South Koreans fear that mad cow disease has not been eradicated in the US. In particular, many point out that mad cow disease can remain dormant for decades in humans who have eaten tainted meat.
Many of the protesters this weekend were women who were extremely upset that in years to come their children might pay with their lives for President Lee’s kowtowing to US export interests.
Not only does the opening of Korean markets to US beef have South Koreans feeling worried for health safety reasons. It will also starve out South Korean beef farmers, who have led separate demonstrations across Korea against importing US beef.
The US-Korea deal will also badly damage the Australian cattle industry, which had more than doubled exports to South Korea since 2003, when concerns over mad cow disease caused a drop in US beef imports to the country.
Lastly, many South Koreans point out with alarm that beef products from US cattle older than 30 months, which are at particular risk for mad cow disease and which are generally not eaten in the United States, will make their way to Korean dinner tables.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the demonstration was how tidy, peaceful, and well organized it was. Although at least a dozen caged police buses waited on the nearby street, police action was entirely unnecessary. Volunteers kept demonstrators under control and peaceful.
Even more noteably, after the candlelight demonstration concluded, volunteers cleaned up the trash that had gathered on the street. I even saw dozens of volunteers scraping the melted wax that had dripped from candles off of the sidewalk. It was perhaps the most responsibly orchestrated demonstration I have ever witnessed.
Information source: Reuters
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http://ecoworldly.com/2008/05/08/mad-cow-disease-fears-cause-mass-demonstrations-in-south-korea/
1.Sohyun Chun(stella)
2.Cultural diversity
3.This article is from the NYtimes,
and this was so interesting since
I could feel how the culture spread
so quickly throughout the world.
And, what's more interesting is that the globalization happened
in "Gaza"- city loceated in middle east.(Palastine)
In this article we can see that
many people in Gaza use +
experince the American culture
thorugh music and film. And,
it also reminded me my trip to Beverlyh Hills. I saw many Palestine women (in their robes)
smoking american cigars, and buying
many american luxury goods.
However, reading this I was also
worried about the people of Gaza,
since globalization (or the diffusion of culuture(has both good and harm.
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Watching ‘Friends’ in Gaza: A Culture Clash
In a dingy storefront on a noisy block in the middle of Gaza City, metal shelves bulge with dusty audiotapes extolling Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad. Alongside them, a pouty Jennifer Lopez beckons from the cover of a CD. DVDs are also on offer, of not-yet-officially-released movies like “Wanted,” “Hancock” and “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” the Adam Sandler comedy about a Mossad agent turned hairdresser in a New York City salon run by a Palestinian woman.
Amer Kihail, 32, a slender man with an elastic, hangdog face, runs the store, called New Sound. Do Gazans living under Hamas buy much Western music or many Western movies? Mr. Kihail looked baffled, and maybe even a little annoyed, by the question.
“Of course,” he said.
Ruled by Hamas, penned in by Israel, grappling with daily shortages of food and supplies, Gazans need an escape. Culture turns out to be not just an afterthought but, many say, essential to surviving here. Especially for young Gazans, what’s on satellite television and the Internet, on tapes and compact discs, is a window to the world beyond the armored checkpoints, and a link to Arab society elsewhere and, crucially, to the West.
And in what is clearly an emerging struggle within Hamas between political pragmatists, trying to consolidate their new authority, and extremists who have begun pressing a more fundamentalist agenda, culture is a central battleground for control of Gaza. A release from confinement and hardship, even mundane television becomes freighted in this context.
As much as the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, this is a front line in the so-called global war on terror, in which anti-Western strains of Islam rub up against the social and cultural proclivities of many, perhaps most, Muslims.
How the West fares, improbable as it might seem, may depend as much on whether people in this forsaken strip of land and elsewhere in this part of the world are watching “Zohan” and Dr. Phil, as on skirmishes in the mountains south of Kabul. What’s happening in a humble Gazan music store, it turns out, has repercussions across the region and beyond.
Gaza isn’t what you might imagine, culturally speaking. Like the West Bank, it occupies a special place in the Middle East: Gazans may loathe Israel but have worked there or spent years in Israeli prisons, and while they haven’t taken up Jewish culture, they’ve experienced Western life as many other Arabs haven’t. This has encouraged a sensibility that, until lately anyway, had a moderating effect on religion and society.
Not far from New Sound, booksellers in this city’s ancient market hawk sex-instruction manuals alongside yellowing paperbacks from Egypt interpreting the Koran. Arabic translations of old Harlequin romances are laid out on folding tables cheek by jowl with joke books in which Muslim characters do borscht belt shtick. (Wife at a psychiatrist’s office: “My husband talks when he’s sleeping. What should I do?” Psychiatrist: “Can you give him a chance to talk when he’s awake?”)
A skinny boy with bad teeth, manning the book tables the other morning, grinned when a woman came by and thumbed through “What to Do if You Have Weaknesses in Sex.”
Pointing to the religious books, she asked, “Do many people buy those?”
“Sure,” the boy said.
“These, too?” she asked, gesturing toward a stack of flimsy softcovers with a picture of the young Cheryl Tiegs on the front.
“Oh yes!” he said.
That evening, in the garden of a family restaurant called Roots (“No Weapon Please,” a sign said on the front door), patrons munched salads and gazed at “Friends” on a big screen. Everybody was waiting for “Noor.”
As they do throughout much of the Arab world these days, the streets here clear each night when “Noor” comes on. A Turkish “Dallas,” centered around the title character and her rich Muslim family enduring the usual soap opera imbroglios, the show has become so wildly popular that imams in Saudi Arabia and Gaza have lately issued fatwas against anyone who watches it. Naturally, nobody pays attention.
Even Hamas tunes in. Imad Alifranji is helping to start up Alquds, a new Islamic television station, Gaza’s second after Al Aqsa, Hamas’s station, which recently devoted three full days of programming to stories about promising Gazan high school students. Mr. Alifranji is wrestling with what might attract just a few more viewers.......
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/world/middleeast/07gaza.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=world
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