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What an excellent idea!
Offspring- Self Esteem
Fatboy Slim- Rockafella Skank
Koolio- Gangsta’s Paradise
Pearl Jam- Alive
Arrested Development- People Everyday
Oasis- Whats the story (morning glory)
Blur- Song 2
Denis Leary- Asshole
Blind Melon- No Rain
Rage Against the Machine- Killing in the name
Nine Inch Nails- Closer
Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Bjork- It’s all so quiet
Everclear- Heroin girl
Tool- Stinkfist
Butthole Surfers- Pepper
Prodigy- Breathe
CHumbawamba- Tubthumping (!)
Verve- Bittersweet Symphony
Blink 182- Dammit
Marilyn Manson- The Beautiful People
Jeff Buckley- The Last Goodbye or Grace
Limp Bizkit- The Nookie
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
OK, here are some Aussie ones, you may not have heard of:
Regurgitator- Blubber Boy
Ammonia- Drugs
Spiderbait- Old Man Sam or Buy me a Pony
You Am I- Berlin Chair
Powderfinger- Pick you up
Custard- Apartment
Just had a listen.
Sounds great for 30 kuai- Got to love having a student card valid until end of 2012 when you’re not a student!
And they say Richmond has become gentrified! Notice the timing of the ad coinciding with the start of the Aussie Rules Football season (Richmond is right near Australia’s most famous stadium, the MCG, where Aussie Rules is played from late March-Sep). Footy fans do love a massage…
Interesting targeting here. Sending it out to an audience of mostly male ex-patriots from Western countries that are working in China’s south west. Good luck indeed!
Really? Do you mean backing the Guomindang to take back the mainland or something else? I’ve never heard of this.
Hey all,
This is pretty much my first post on a forum ever, but it is a topic I’m very interested in, so here it goes!
This is obviously an issue that we, the laowai, living here in China have great mutual interest in and we could go on discussing it forever. I think the texts Charlie refers to in the original post are typical of realist writers advocating that a power struggle in world politics will eventually result in conflict and I don’t really agree.
Such a threat theory has been advocated by realists for decades. While yes there are issues and the Paracel Islands are a good example of this, I believe conflict in less likely than it was in earlier decades when the two nations were less interconnected economically. While there was a long standing threat of conflict during the late 20th century and in to the early 21st, war did not follow.
I echo the sentiments of Mike’s Pizza that the Fukuyama view of the “end of history” is very much outdated. Development to democracy is not the only way forward. China was always really going to develop in a unique way. It was very unlikely that it would just model itself on a Western system of government and expect to simply- as many liberal writers put forward in the late 80s and early 90s around the time of the student protests here- “have what we (Westerners) have”. Nonetheless, just because the systems of government are so different, this does not mean conflict is inevitable. Jerry is right when he says that, yes there could be a clash, but given the interdependent economic relationship between the two, there are so many potential losses for both sides the relative gains of conflict are minimal.
Armed conflict between the two is a possibility, but it is certainly not inevitable.
Hey all,
This is pretty much my first post on a forum ever, but it is a topic I’m very interested in, so here it goes!
This is obviously an issue that we, the laowai, living here in China have great mutual interest in and we could go on discussing it forever. I think the texts Charlie refers to in the original post are typical of realist writers advocating that a power struggle in world politics will eventually result in conflict and I don’t really agree.
Such a threat theory has been advocated by realists for decades. While yes there are issues and the Paracel Islands are a good example of this, I believe conflict in less likely than it was in earlier decades when the two nations were less interconnected economically. While there was a long standing threat of conflict during the late 20th century and in to the early 21st, war did not follow.
I echo the sentiments of Mike’s Pizza that the Fukuyama view of the “end of history” is very much outdated. Development to democracy is not the only way forward. China was always really going to develop in a unique way. It was very unlikely that it would just model itself on a Western system of government and expect to simply- as many liberal writers put forward in the late 80s and early 90s around the time of the student protests here- “have what we (Westerners) have”. Nonetheless, just because the systems of government are so different, this does not mean conflict is inevitable. Jerry is right when he says that, yes there could be a clash, but given the interdependent economic relationship between the two, there are so many potential losses for both sides the relative gains of conflict are minimal.
Armed conflict between the two is a possibility, but it is certainly not inevitable.
