The divide that McDonalds created in Hong Kong is insane to me. I can see how it happened, as people do like to hold on to old, traditional ways, and the people who hold on to these ways always want to resent anyone who doesn't follow them. But, having said that, they should be able to recognize that this is the new normal for Hong Kong, and try to accept it and embrace it. Maybe they could even begin to enjoy the new things that got brought into Hong Kong in the recent years.
The readings about the people who move from the DR to Boston but still send the excess money that they make back to family in the DR is really interesting to me because I met someone here at Kutztown who told me they do something very similar. Without going too deep into it, he essentially works and goes to school here in the U.S. so he can eventually get a high paying American job so he can support his family back in the the DR. He had told me that American currency is so much more valuable than the currency they use in the DR, that he will be able to support him and his family with just the money he makes here. To me that really shows just the difference in lives between us here in the U.S. and people who live in worse economic situations, as here, someone who could be considered impoverished will not be able to afford their basic needs, and struggle everyday, but if they made the same amount in another economy, they'd live a comfortable life with all the things they'd need and more.
I did not know that yoga was a religious practice in other countries, I did know that about meditation, but learning that things like yoga are also religiously rooted shows how many people disregard practices that a sacred in other countries and kind of practice them without giving them the respect they deserve just because they enjoy it.
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