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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (43576)	1/21/2011 6:53:02 PM
From: John	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

China is on the rise, while America self-destructs under the weight of egalitarianism. It is not a surprising turn of events to independent thinkers. America is pre-occupied with the egalitarian nonsense, while the Chinese are advancing their nation along racial lines and thriving as a result! Read on... Rise of the Hans newgeography.com excerpt: With China’s new prominence in global affairs, the Han race, which constitutes 90 percent of the Chinese population, is suddenly the most dominant cohesive ethnic group in the world—and it is seeking to remain that way through strategic alliances, aggressive trade policy, and attacks on racial minorities within the country’s boundaries. The less tribally cohesive, more fragmented West is, meanwhile, losing out. Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a book called Tribes that sought to trace the role of ethnicity, race, and religion in economic and geopolitical affairs. At the time, there was some skepticism about the continuing influence of ethnicity; some considered the work, frankly, regressive and racist. Now, however, my thesis from 1992 has really come to fruition. We are living in the age of tribes—and China is just the start. Such primitive racial instincts were supposed to be long ago passé: We’re supposed to be living in Thomas Friedman’s “flat” world or Kenichi Ohmae’s “borderless world.” By now, supposedly, everyone is increasingly interconnected and undifferentiated. Affairs should be managed neatly by deracinated professionals, working on their iPads from Brussels, Washington, or any of the other “global” capitals. But most people do not really see themselves as members of a large multinational unit, global citizens, or “mass consumers.” Instead the drivers of history remain the essentials: the desire to feed one’s family, support the health of the tribe, and shape the immediate community. The particularistic continues to trump the universalistic.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (43576)	1/21/2011 10:24:51 PM
From: Wayners	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Everybody needs to learn to do something on their own if they lose a job, whether it be selling crap on Ebay or Stock Trading or selling bottles with ships in them...something, anything! Experts all say to have 6 months of earnings in the bank. I say BS. Everybody should be running some kind of hobby/business that makes money on the side outside of their regular employment, that, if they did lose their job, they could devote full time to and make money at. I wonder what that looks like on a resume? I would think pretty good. Let's say you are a stock trader and make a decent living at it for a year while interviewing for the right job. I can see the employer say, BS, you were unemployed for a year and we aren't interested. Attach the documentation. What would they say then? Still considered unemployed?