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  • A young woman shops for clothing and other items for her infant while a clerk totals up the price in a childrens' clothing store in Shenzhen.
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  • Shopping in a childrens' clothing store.
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  • Two Ladin women dress in traditional clothing that is often worn on Sundays and for ceremonial occasions linked to the ancient customs. Ladins in the small village in the Dolomites divided from other ethnic relatives to the far reaches of the mountains further away from German influences. The people living here speak Italian and German, but Ladin in their first language.
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  • Skiers dressed in fashionable clothing wait in a lift line in St. Moritz which has been referred to as "Europe's winter playground."
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • Mannequins wearing western-style clothing.
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  • A male mannequin figure in black and white striped clothing stands at the door to entice people into a Beijing chain restaurant.
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  • Women try on clothes and jewelry for an accessory photo shoot.
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  • Trying on clothes and jewelry for an accessory photo shoot.
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  • A young woman sits on the floor while trying on clothes and jewelry for an accessory photo shoot.
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  • Dancing and singing followed a totem raising ceremony. Tlinglet leaders dressed in colorful traditional clothing for a historic totem raising where seven totem poles were   placed in a Native Alaskan park in Klawock. Many of the 1000 Native Alaskans moved indoors to a gymnasium where festivities continued throughout the day.
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  • "Wild men" in suits of tree lichen celebrate Schleicherlaufen. It is a similar cultural tradition to Carnival but it is held once every five years in early spring when light wins over darkness of winter. Men collect moss in the woods for weeks before and women in Telfs sew it onto clothing to make the costumes for the parade.
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  • A father and son head to an early morning parade for a Carnival type festival celebrated every five years in spring when light wins over darkness in the mountains. Ancient Pagan traditions and festivals such as Schleicherlaufen  are held in the Tyrol where the Savages wear grotesque masks and costumes of moss, representing winter. Men go into the woods nearby Telfs and collect lichen while wives and mothers sew it onto clothing creating "wild ones" for the festival.
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  • A pair of cloth slippers.
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  • Young girls, dressed in traditional Swiss clothes, feed goats.
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  • Miners traveled underground in Idrija, Slovenia for 500 years to mine mercury.  Now with little need for the metal, the mine closed leaving an environmental nightmare. A small crew works to fill in the tunnels to keep heavy metals run off from polluting groundwater. Men take showers after their shift and hang their clothes on hooks.
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  • Clothes hanging from the ceiling of a university dormitory.
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  • A Masaai family drying clothes in the sun.
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  • Clothes hang to dry inside Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • A Masaai woman dries her clothes in the sun. Water and other survival necessities are rare in this area around Endulen, Tanzania.
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  • Seated in a room full of cloth covered chairs,  the “farmer” capitalist millionaires in Huaxi Village (Farmers Village), a model farm for the last 45 years meet annually. Even though they are the collective ideal of the capitalist model, they still dress in Mao-ish style outfits and make decisions for the 80 businesses in a socialist forum.<br />
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These “model farmers” were capitalists before it was allowed in China. They started factories, but worked in them secretly (no windows). When government officials came around, all the workers ran out into the fields and pretended to be peasants. They became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. Huaxi Village eventually went bankrupt.
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  • A bride and groom cut the cake and kiss after their wedding ceremony that was held on the Mendenhall Glacier. Champagne, flowers, music and a linen table cloth set the scene for their atypical, romantic celebration.
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  • A surreal and beautiful setting for the wedding ceremony. A cake and champagne are placed on a table covered with a linen cloth. A camera on a tripod records the couple's wedding vows taken on the Mendenhall Glacier. They said they were married in "God's Cathedral."
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  • Boys and a young girl wait for the news in the hallway of the school in St. George, Georgia. Two are contestants in the Mr. and Miss St. George pageant, and are dressed in formal clothes as a young fellow who is not competing waits by the water fountain.
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  • A woman prepared food surrounded by colorful cloth in the beach settlement Saint Louis, Senegal.<br />
The town was once an important economic center during French West Africa, however, it still has important industries, including tourism, a commercial center, a center of sugar production, and fishing.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • Models on a cattle call fixing their make up.
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  • A young fashion designer in her studio and shop.
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  • Rachel shops for a new dress to go on an upcoming date. The fashion store called Thre3 is run by her friend on the Bund in Shanghai. Her dressing room opens into a stylish shop and the pod doors take two assistants to close. The green frock has a $2,200 price tag.
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  • A construction site near Raffles City.
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  • Shoppers in pajamas in the 200 block of Guangdong road near the Bund.
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  • A worker in a steel mill in Huaxi village.
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  • Rachel is a “headhunter” for the Comfort Class. She is single and lives at home with her parents who were part of one of the worst social experiments in history. Mao unified the country, but then was responsible for the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, countless famines. <br />
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Then, Deng proclaimed, “To get rich is glorious” and opened the flood gates to the “Special Economic Zone” cities on the south coast, creating the largest peacetime human migration in history. Many 20-somethings say that Tiananmen Square had to be put down or it would have hurt Deng’s economic plans and they would not have their nice apartments with flat screens in every room.
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  • Shoppers in pajamas in the 200 block of Guangdong road near the Bund.
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  • Shuffling through shallows, a southern Sudan girl who fled to the government garrison town of Juba eats a foraged mango. Living in fear, she hikes with her Dinka family on an island in the middle of the Nile River.
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  • A photographer leans in to capture couples in formal, bridal costumes and red balloons at a mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • A fish tank separates patrons from the kitchen at a restaurant on East Nanjing Road | Shanghai, China
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  • Elysee, owner and designer of Zemo Elysee fashion shop with models.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl adjusts her uniform at a desk with a computer. Her portrait hangs on the wall above her.
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  • Kids posing with people in Cultural Revolution costumes at a car show.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl sits in a car.
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  • A model and a person in Cultural Revolution costumes at a car show.
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  • Adjusting the uniforms of guards at the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • Standing dressed in formal wear are some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Plastic bags stack up filled with miscellaneous goods at the check-out of a Sam's Club store in China.
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  • A bellhop at a boutique hotel.
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  • A dragon dance for promotional purposes on East Nanjing Road.
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  • Brides line up for the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Two men sit outside a shop on a street that is known for wedding attire where dresses at the doorway lure shoppers inside.  <br />
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Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who move to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at over 120 million. China is experiencing the largest mass migration of people from the countryside to the city in history with an estimated 400 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • A bride in a white dress tosses confetti at a mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • A bride at the shopping mall.
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  • A guard stands outside a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • Leaving  a Johnny Walker/Formula one car event at Granvill Mal in Guangzho, I came upon a woman with a broken shoe on the city street. Her friend was trying to fix it by using his cell phone as a hammer. Cell phones are changed up so frequently, so why not use it as a hammer? She laughed and was embarrassed because their friends were laughing at the scene too.
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  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • Bridesmaids put on makeup and style their hair while getting dressed and preparing for a wedding.
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  • Brightly-costumed Russian dancers hair matches their sexy dresses on stage in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • Uniformed restaurant workers carry baskets of food from the kitchen for diners. They pass under a canvas sheet that shows a restaurant with people eating.<br />
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All over China, young architects design buildings that are just experiments: throw in a bit of classical modern, a little Prairie style, a few Roman columns. This restaurant feels like you are sitting inside the restaurant – inside the restaurant.
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  • A spa employee at the Mission Hills Golf Club.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park.
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  • A young woman on the phone and a guard at the steel mill in Huaxi.
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  • A groom signs a wall with a kiss at the Rose Wedding Festival.
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  • A bride puts lipstick on her groom at the Rose Wedding Festival.
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  • Brides numbered 32 through 43 line up in their queue at the Rose Wedding Festival. Seventy couples in this mass marriage ceremony traveled to Century Park for the ceremony. The marriage-age consumer is a prime target for first-world companies. The middle class’s under-30-consumer market alone is estimated to grow to the size of the entire EU market in the next decade.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • A guard at an upscale gated housing development.
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  • Red caped Supermen sell phones outside of Total Fitness Club in the mall in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. There are 900 million cell phones in China and the West has long predicted that economic growth would eventually bring democracy. <br />
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As James Mann points out in his book, "The China Fantasy," the idea that China will evolve into a democracy as its middle class grows continues to underlie the U.S.’s China policy, providing the central rationale for maintaining close ties with an unapologetically authoritarian regime.
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  • Campers Elizabeth and Tad Morrow pitch their tent in the rain at Glacier National Park's Two Medicine Lake.
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  • Final touches to makeup before a Chinese cultural program show.
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  • Couples dressed in formal wear stand waiting for the mass wedding that took place at the Great Wall outside Beijing.  Some may marry for love, but marriage can also be a great social and financial leap forward.
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  • A young woman in costume during the October Week holiday.
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  • Dancing in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • Couples ride in a long line of flower-decorated convertibles for a mass wedding in Shanghai. They aspire to the ideal of the billboard above them—the one-child family. <br />
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According to the 2010 census 118.06 boys are born for every 100 girls, and experts warn of increased social instability should this trend continue. For the population born between 1900 and 2000, it is estimated that there could be 35.59 million fewer females than males.  In Beijing, for example, newly prosperous residents are snapping up automobiles at a rate of 1,000 a day. The number of vehicles on the capital’s sclerotic roads has doubled in the past five years, to 3 million, or about a million more vehicles than in all of New York City.
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  • A woman tries on her wedding dress at a dressmaker's shop.
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  • The first Wal-Mart in China opened in Shenzhen, the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. Cosmetics are a major business in China and women in the China Middle Class see this as an important part of their lifestyle. <br />
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Signs hang overhead in this store proudly announcing, “Made in China.” They sell all that a family needs or wants, and the cosmetics area is more plush than any Wal-Mart in the U.S.<br />
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Times have changed. When I was in China years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that had a photo on the wall of a female employee with a sign underneath, “Worst Employee of the Month.” They motivated workers at that time by shaming them.
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  • Kitty Lauman learned to train horses from her grandfather and now, she works with mustangs and difficult horses on her western ranch. Her daughter rides one of the many wild horses she has tamed and trained.
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  • Singers and actresses get ready for an opera performance at a hotel.
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  • A resident exits a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • Street lights at night illuminate a couple making a wedding photo on a bridge with the Pudong skyline in the background.
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  • A young woman shops for shoes.
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  • Young flower girls in white, lacy dresses are joyously celebrate at a wedding in Shanghai.
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  • A weary Chinese middle-class, groom-to-be waits on a comfy couch while on wedding shopping street in Guangzhou, China.
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  • A woman in an office near a poster of the Statue of Liberty.
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  • A woman and children stand in line at the check-out of the first Sam's Club store in China.
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  • A young woman shops for shoes.
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  • A young woman on the phone and a guard at the steel mill in Huaxi.
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  • There are 2.6 billion armpits in China, according to an ad man, and someone has to sell them deodorant. A shop-owner (right) hires a guy to wander Nanjing Road in a full knight suit to draw in patrons to his snack shop.
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  • Couples at the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • A devout Muslim mendicant dances during a festival of lights,  in Lahore, Pakistan.
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  • Artists copying paintings.
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  • A giant aquarium at the spa of the Shanghai Orient Rome Holiday Hotel.
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  • A woman tries on her wedding dress as her Australian fiancee looks on.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl sits in a car reading a comic book.
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