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It’s reflective of a growing issue in Japanese society regarding gender relations. Late last year, the World Economic Forum ranked Japan number 101 out of 135 nations in their annual Global Gender Gap ranking. When this list was released, many Japanese Internet users came out arguing that women and men are inherently different, and that women should stay home as that makes them happy. And this mindset isn’t an online-only view — a poll conducted by the Japanese government in December (the same month Japan overwhelmingly elected a conservative government) found 51 percent of the population believe women should stay home and raise the family while men focus on work.
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Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation This skewering of the Gangnam life can be easy to miss for non-Korean. Psy boasts that he’s a real man who drinks a whole cup of coffee in one gulp, for example, insisting he wants a women who drinks coffee. “I think some of you may be wondering why he’s making such a big deal out of coffee, but it’s not your ordinary coffee,” U.S.-based Korean blogger Jea Kim wrote at her site, My Dear Korea. (Her English-subtitled translation of the video is at right.) ”In Korea, there’s a joke poking fun at women who eat 2,000-won (about $2) ramen for lunch and then spend 6,000 won on Starbucks coffee.” They’re called Doenjangnyeo, or “soybean paste women” for their propensity to crimp on essentials so they can over-spend on conspicuous luxuries, of which coffee is, believe it or not, one of the most common. “The number of coffee shops has gone up tremendously, particularly in Gangnam,” Hong said. “Coffee shops have become the place where people go to be seen and spend ridiculous amounts of money.”

Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation

This skewering of the Gangnam life can be easy to miss for non-Korean. Psy boasts that he’s a real man who drinks a whole cup of coffee in one gulp, for example, insisting he wants a women who drinks coffee. “I think some of you may be wondering why he’s making such a big deal out of coffee, but it’s not your ordinary coffee,” U.S.-based Korean blogger Jea Kim wrote at her site, My Dear Korea. (Her English-subtitled translation of the video is at right.) ”In Korea, there’s a joke poking fun at women who eat 2,000-won (about $2) ramen for lunch and then spend 6,000 won on Starbucks coffee.” They’re called Doenjangnyeo, or “soybean paste women” for their propensity to crimp on essentials so they can over-spend on conspicuous luxuries, of which coffee is, believe it or not, one of the most common. “The number of coffee shops has gone up tremendously, particularly in Gangnam,” Hong said. “Coffee shops have become the place where people go to be seen and spend ridiculous amounts of money.”
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Geoffrey Farmer’s “Leaves of Grass” consists of hundreds of images cut from five decades of Life Magazines. Stretching down a long hall at the Documenta 13 art exhibition in Kassel, this amazing installation piece gives us a photographic archive of American culture from 1935 to 1985. via

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Poster campaign by “Students Teaching Against Racism in Society”(S.T.A.R.S.) at Ohio University

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