The indigenous kids in the streets of San Cristobal de las Casas are not beggars, they are workers. They walk through the streets in coordination with their mothers or siblings and they sell textiles, little painted clay animals, key chains, snacks, trinkets, or an assortment of other indigenous handicrafts to tourists or anyone else passing [...]
Social Issues
-
And You Think You Work A Lot? South Korean Work Hours Highest in OECD
As an American, I get a lot of flack these days about how awful the current state of my country is, how there are no jobs, how there are jobs but people simply aren’t looking hard enough for them, how Wall Street controls the universe, and how gosh darn lazy those Occupy-[metro here] protestors are [...]
-
Chinese Human Rights Violations and the Olympics
I was walking around Budapest with a couple Scandinavians last summer, when we passed by a little tent that was erected on the street so that people could drink beer and watch the Olympic games together. I stopped for a second and watched some fellow contort himself in some odd way on the television. The [...]
Comments