Women brought up within a Japanese culture will almost always say "Yes" to any invitation or request, and then simply not follow through. It's better to be polite in the moment, and be true to yourself later, rather than the other way around (as in Ameri
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Looks at contemporary American culture through austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption)
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MySpace users often from immigrant, Latino and Hispanic families, the teens not part of the "dominant high school popularity paradigm...ostracised...as geeks, freaks, or queers." Facebook users "are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom"...
Bono declares: "I represent a lot of people [in Africa] who have no voice at all.... They haven't asked me to represent them. It's cheeky but I hope they're glad I do." I am not at all glad...the agency of many Africans is suppressed because people like