Sex is gender and “not” sex
From a very early age on we can decipher sex, sexuality and the differences in detail. Some days ago I came across a little investigation on this competence. I was astonished about one result:
If you look at the picture above you maybe ask if you know the difference between the individuals pictured are male or female. Most of the people are able to decipher by ……..
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Alibabas success: western vs chinese way of capitalism (part 1)
Last Friday the whole world, that means the global market, had an eye on China, an eye on Alibaba.
Alibaba, Chinas biggest IT-based company runs among others with Taobao the biggest virtual market-place in China. Compared to western companies Alibaba is bigger than Ebay and Amazon together, just to name one comparison.
Alibaba and Taobao is not only a marketplace, it is…………..
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In Germany we name our country „Fatherland“. I was told that you in China say “Motherland”. Some days ago I found out that there’s another identification you could say.
I will call it “Otherland”.
What do I mean ………….
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Last week I was told a story which is not so unusual I think. A colleague of mine visited Germany for a training course. Her mother was supposed to come to Germany right after the last day of the training course. Mother and daughter then wanted to travel around in Europe and have a nice time together.
Unfortunately it did not happen to be so!
Without any obvious regret ……..
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Money means trust, money is sexy
It seems to be the same everywhere in the world. Wherever you show up with typical status symbols just like an expensive Italian car (like Lamborghini, Ferrari and so) you win the game.
Some days ago there was a little test being made in China. Lamborghini driver with a six-hundred-thousand-dollar car stopped at the pavement and asked a woman if she ……..
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Rapid increase of eye-problems
Scientists have found out that there is a rapid increase in short-sightedness, especially in East-Asia like China and South-Corea.
What does this mean? How is this related to you? How is this related to you if you even don’t have any eye-problems yet?
Scientists meanwhile talk about a global epidemic. ………..
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Anger in the face enhances cues of strength
New research has been done on facial expression and human behaviour. This research (Evolution and human behaviour magazine) proves that humans assess others` fighting ability by monitoring cues of strength. Cues can be found and clearly identified by facial expression. Biologically and socially this is a hidden important competence of humans. So to say ………
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If funny, fun means: together in China
Whenever you meet Chinese people they look funny. They smile, they laugh when being together. It seems that smiling and laughing embodies the function of being together, be related to one another and being able to laugh because of being together.
Here’s one example which is quite funny to watch.
Close to a thousand people ………..
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Demand for better sex education
“Adult videos can’t be our sex-education” is one of the main messages of Chinese students demonstrating for sex-education.
They demand an especially universities and schools have to say “yes” to sex-education. Young Chinese people obviously want and of course need a save sexual life, a sexual life with excitement, ……….
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Emotional expression judged by Software
Facial expression shows how somebody feels. There might be joy, sadness, anger, shame, but also a sad-anger, a joyful surprise or frightening discussed. Even those complex feelings can be expressed by facial expression. We have a so to say born and learned competence to understand this unconsciously, consciously and can adjust or react to this.
Scientist of the OhioStateUniversity in Columbus recently …….
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