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"Formerly the superpower of Latin America, people immigrated to Mexico instead of vice versa. Back in 1905, a group of Koreans who were fleeing Japanese rule were 'lured in 1905 by ship to plantations on the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico. Instead of finding a better life, they were sold to plantation owners and forced to cultivate henequen, a plant whose tough fiber was used to make things like rope.'"
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"Surprisingly, some Egyptian women say that their veils don’t protect against harassment, as the lollipop ads argue, but fuel it. A survey released this summer supports the view."
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Americans have an amazing ability to forget that the English language varies across the country. When I arrived from Toronto, New Yorkers would taunt me that I sometimes used the word "pop" instead of "soda" for soft drinks and justify it by saying "My friend in California uses "soda" too so it's an American thing. They dismissed it as a Canadian-ism…but now I have proof that it wasn't…New Yorkers can be so provincial sometimes.
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"…a sign informed the visitors that the film wasn’t showing correctly due to a 'technical problem'."
Critic, Curator, Editor-in-chief and co-founder, Hyperallergic
I find this veil thing and the connection to Islam tiring. There is nothing in the Koran that states that a woman is to be covered head to foot. It states that a woman is to dress modestly. That leaves dress open to interpretation. If a woman wished to be covered so be it but to say the reason is what God/Allah wishes in the Koran is just not true. Another example of women having to be responsible for controlling a man sexual urges. How about the women carrying a knife and a shovel to bury body parts of anyone who wound try to attack them? That could control sexual urges I would think. But I could be wrong.