Current Event for Week of 9/18/06
Tanning salons give color to Chinese yuppies
This is about how the chineese are starting to tan in contrast with the usuall whitening skin treatments that they do. It used to be considered a sign of poverty but now it is becoming fashionable.
Read the article here.
What do you think? Is this an example of the Chinese "acculturation" to American norms? Is this proof of us eventually becoming a single, global, culture?
1 Comments:
i think that it is dissappointing to see them changing over to our culutural values however it isnt wrong or right.
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