one-child policy fallout, i suppose... *shrugs*
been here for 30 months... leaving next week...
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Bob
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
> From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:48:05 -0500
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: numbers
>
> There's always some white guy trolling for Asian chicks. What does
> "shortage" mean in this context, exactly?
>
> Note: I realize that, occupying the exalted position of Poetryetc
> Co-Listowner (bow down & tremble!) this is exactly the sort of snarky
> comment I should avoid. But what the hell, I couldn't resist.
>
> jd
>
> On 1/29/07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> While scanning - in vain for retorts to the awful P McCauley - the Letters
>> to the
>> Editor of 'The Australian' on its website, I stumbled on this, no excuse
>> for
>> passing it on, unless the fact that there are listmembers in China...
>>
>> Friday, January 26, 07 (12:10 am)
>> On Wednesday, I read about a shortage of women in China, and yesterday I
>> read
>> about a shortage of men in Australia. I realise that multiculturalism has
>> been
>> dumped as government policy, but surely, in the best spirit of
>> globalisation, we
>> could trade out of our respective imbalances.
>> Nick Wills-Johnson
>> Victoria Park, WA
>>
>>
>>
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> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
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