I cant compare to any groups in Australia, as government welfare is widespread. What about the USA? Are there still roughly 50,000,000 people who recieve some form of government assistance?
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Poverty in China in 2014.
by fulltimestudent inchina daily recently published this overview of poverty in china: reference: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-10/16/content_18755643.htm.
under the general heading of, behind the glamour.. .
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Poverty in China in 2014.
by fulltimestudent inchina daily recently published this overview of poverty in china: reference: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-10/16/content_18755643.htm.
under the general heading of, behind the glamour.. .
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fulltimestudent
On an internet site, Liu Yang, an internet user says:
I bought two steamed buns,two small apples, a bag ofinstant noodles and somepickle in a nearby supermarket.I feel shocked and sad that somany people are living this nightmare everyday.
And 'Little O"commented:
From migrant workers to white-collar employees, baked sesame seed cake is a popularstaple diet for many in Beijing.But with a budget of just 6.3yuan, it is impossible to live onit as its price went up from 0.60yuan in 2009 to 1 yuan in2014.
Of course, these people (who commented) live in big cities, prices in small villages are likely lower.
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Poverty in China in 2014.
by fulltimestudent inchina daily recently published this overview of poverty in china: reference: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-10/16/content_18755643.htm.
under the general heading of, behind the glamour.. .
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What would it be like to be in the poorest segment?
6.3 Yuan is maybe A$1.20, even with the poverty stricken life I led as a special pioneer, I don't think I've scratched that hard. Though there were days when I literally had no money left to buy food. (OF course, in the big-hearted view of the WTS, when you had no money you were supposed to go out an place some magazines ( a policy that started with colporteurs at the end of the nineteenth century), that's why they gave them to pioneers at such a big discount (No freeloaders in Yahweh's organisation, thank U!!).
Anyway here's how a student (who may also have some experience in living cheap) in China said he'd live on that:
At a 'dumpling party*,' I went to on Saturday night, I asked a middle-aged guy who'd grown up as an orphan in British controlled Singapore, if that was below his memory of a poverty line.
He reckoned that the student was eating better than he ate then (early 60s) under British rule. Trying to relate to it, he said he may have a steamed bread roll for breakfast (nothing else), no lunch and some boiled rice and some vegetables at night. Once in a while, they had a little meat or fish.
* A Chinese get together, where everyone works togetheer to make dumplings and then eats them
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Poverty in China in 2014.
by fulltimestudent inchina daily recently published this overview of poverty in china: reference: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-10/16/content_18755643.htm.
under the general heading of, behind the glamour.. .
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China Daily recently published this overview of poverty in China: Reference: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-10/16/content_18755643.htm
under the general heading of, BEHIND THE GLAMOUR.
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The Problems People have in finding Love....
by fulltimestudent in... are even more complex for those who are same sex attracted:.
from the philippines, a short film:.
nessun dorma - .
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fulltimestudent
I posted this film in another thread, quite a while back. I think it makes a point to advance the conversation:
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The Problems People have in finding Love....
by fulltimestudent in... are even more complex for those who are same sex attracted:.
from the philippines, a short film:.
nessun dorma - .
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Thnx for your thoughts, DJS.
Ummm! Not sure how to start this conversation. OK! we jump in. If I recall correctly you have described yourself as same sex attracted. (hope I have not confused you with someone else).
And, in your above post, you say: " I have a bad picker (some would say - including me - that it is because I am extremely shallow and make decisions based on my eyes and other body parts distanced from my brain!)."
That of course, is a universal problem, though some gay men (not sure about women) describe the gay sub-culture as behaving that way, i.e. concerned only with physical attraction.
But isn't it physical attraction the main start point for all relationships, regardless of whether the relationship exists between people of the same or opposite sexes?
And more, even though Christianity claims that their version of God ordered the universe on monogamy, a more realistic view is that we continue to be sexually interested in the sort of people that attract us. There is no universal tendency to monogamy - indeed we could say that the tendence is toward polyamory.
So I do not think that you're that unusual.
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The Problems People have in finding Love....
by fulltimestudent in... are even more complex for those who are same sex attracted:.
from the philippines, a short film:.
nessun dorma - .
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Nah! Cant stop posting-
Like Toy Dolls, deals powerfully, with what is often the end product of the search for love ... baby dumping, as a problem in contemporary Malaysian society.
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The Problems People have in finding Love....
by fulltimestudent in... are even more complex for those who are same sex attracted:.
from the philippines, a short film:.
nessun dorma - .
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Been waiting to post these for a while. Hope someone enjoys them.
No more for now
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The Problems People have in finding Love....
by fulltimestudent in... are even more complex for those who are same sex attracted:.
from the philippines, a short film:.
nessun dorma - .
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Another sort of love - in 4 minutes:
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The Problems People have in finding Love....
by fulltimestudent in... are even more complex for those who are same sex attracted:.
from the philippines, a short film:.
nessun dorma - .
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fulltimestudent
Ummm! Different standards? Don't know what to say about this video.
