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2009-03-03, 00:44 | Link #1702 | |
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The ownership of the pieces of art belong solely to the auctioner and thus, he has the every right to state any conditions. More over, it is not like he is unwilling to sell the relics to China but the government of China must comply with the one and easy condition which is to not kill Tibetans. How is that a difficult task? |
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2009-03-03, 01:06 | Link #1703 |
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Actually, the best way to settle the issue is to bid for the items, and pay for them, with little to no fanfare. Exchanging them for "rights" is quite frankly out of the question, since "face" is something very important to the PRC government. Besides, it's for charity, or at least the original YSL auction was.
All this hooha is distracting. Besides, the real issue is that demographic changes on the ground in Tibet are not good for Tibetans.
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2009-03-03, 01:13 | Link #1704 | |
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I understand the feelings of the auctioner, but I don't think that he should give the sculptures to anyone except for the Chinese government. If he won't do it for political reasons that's fine, but IMO he should keep the arts for now. h and the Chinese guy is stupid. Chinese people tend to do a lot of stupid, sheeplike things out of the phony nationalism taught to them. |
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2009-03-03, 02:14 | Link #1705 | |
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2009-03-03, 02:46 | Link #1706 | |
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2009-03-03, 08:52 | Link #1707 | |
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2009-03-03, 09:15 | Link #1708 |
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As a Singaporean Chinese, I feel that such loss of "national treasures" is a lesson for China. Why did such treasures fall into the hands of others? Because China chose to be arrogant and thought that they were still the best in the world, and that they had nothing to learn from others. Guess what? That proved to be the downfall. If such lessons are always remembered, that one can always learn from others, then I would rather that such "treasures" continue to remain outside.
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2009-03-03, 09:26 | Link #1709 | |
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2009-03-03, 15:12 | Link #1711 | |
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I found this article a bit odd honestly the numbers seem very high and for a culture such as Japan i cant see waste being this high.
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-b...0090301pb.html
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2009-03-03, 15:41 | Link #1712 | |
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The number does seem high though...
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2009-03-03, 22:34 | Link #1713 | |
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2009-03-03, 23:01 | Link #1714 | |
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Not really, I dislike much more seeing meals only half eated, we are not doing it for trowing it in the garbage right after. Those numbers are really enormous, its might even be said ''alarming''.
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2009-03-03, 23:25 | Link #1715 |
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Well I've really never gotten a satisfactory explanation for why Japanese don't take leftovers. Rather than speculate further, perhaps a Japanese in Japan might have an idea?
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2009-03-03, 23:33 | Link #1716 | |
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2009-03-03, 23:46 | Link #1718 |
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Probably depends on whether you consider it more wasteful to throw the food out or pack it around the waist.
A fair bit of US food waste comes at the farm stage. I remember covering US milk price subsidies in economics class and how they created a massive surplus of milk. The solution to this? Make it into cheese and store it in abandoned mines (salt mines, I think). |
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