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  • Hausos or Chilean cowboys topped with white Andalusian hats watch a rodeo competition. Huasos ride horses wearing the traditional straw, flat-brimmed sombrero called a chupalla.  A growing popularity of the rodeo as national sport is found near Santiago and all around central and southern Chile.
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  • A hat seller helps load a stack of straw hats onto a truck at a market that sells flowers for Day of the Dead fiesta.<br />
Heavily-loaded trucks carry red Terciopelo flowers to celebrate Mexico’s premier fiesta. Atlixco is the flower capital of Mexico exporting roses and gladiolas from the state of Puebla.
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  • A man in silhouette wears a traditional brimmed straw hat.
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  • A member of a BBoy dance group passes the hat after performing on a plaza in Old Quito. A crowd gathered when they heard music and saw the young teens dancing in the street. The group are rewarded for their entertainment with enough money to divide between them.
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  • A lady in a fancy hat and a friend looking out the window of a car.
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  • Stylish, extravagant hats are a long-standing tradition at the Kentucky Derby. Competition for the best dressed is nearly as fierce as the thoroughbred horse race.
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  • Stylish, extravagant hats are a long-standing tradition at the Kentucky Derby. Competition for the best dressed is nearly as fierce as the thoroughbred horse race outside. Ashley Judd attends.
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  • Trainers gather at the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame the night before a wild horse competition, Extreme Mustang Makeover. All dressed in white hats and shirts, they met for opening ceremonies and instructions for the next day.
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  • Stylish, extravagant hats are a long-standing tradition at the Kentucky Derby. Competition for the best dressed is nearly as fierce as the thoroughbred horse race outside. Women parade in costumed finery in the Turf Club in hallways lined with jockey's portraits at Churchill Downs.
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  • Contestants wear leather and cowboy and cowgirl hats for the Beef Empire Days queen and princess at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo. <br />
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Running for five decades, the tradition is one of the premiere showcases for the industry. It features 16 events including a rodeo, carnival and parade.
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  • Cowboys with hats wait on horses to participate in the Beef Empire Days Rodeo, a long standing tradition in Garden City, Kansas.
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  • A young contestant wears pink to stand out for the Beef Empire Days princess at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo. Other young women don cowgirl hats and other distinctive colors as they wait for the event to begin.
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  • Race fans don red and black feathers because the stylish, extravagant hats are a long-standing tradition at the Kentucky Derby. Competition for the best dressed is nearly as fierce as the thoroughbred horse race.
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  • Spectators donning cowboy hats fill a Texas stadium to watch trained wild horses in the Extreme Mustang Makeover competition. Thirty trainers were given unhandled wild horses and thirty days to train them. The competition is organized to show off the skills, talents, and trainability of wild horses. They were auctioned off to the public following the two day event.
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  • Cowboy hats are the typical attire for all who watch and compete in the White River Rodeo.
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  • Two teenagers  wearing cowboy hats float in the shallow Calamus River which is fed by the Ogallala aquifer. More plentiful in Nebraska than further south, water is used for agriculture, industry, recreation and communities' well water.
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  • Ecuadorian women weave toquilla straw Panama hats from the plaited leaves of a palm-like plant. The friends work together making hats that exported are exported. Hat-weaving evolved in the early to mid-1600s, became known in the early 1800s and more popular in the mid-19th century when miners of the California Gold Rush traveled to California. ThIs was followed by Theodore Roosevelt who was photographed wearing one in 1906 visiting the Panama Canal.
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  • Three woman wearing felt fedoras laugh and watch friends at a community gathering in a rural, mountain area of Ecuador. The traditional hats as similar to the Cholita or bowler hats worn by women in Bolivia.
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  • Brimmed hats mark traditional costume of people of the Ecuadorian Sierra.
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  • Wearing a black hat and white hat, a young cowboy balances on a corral fence waiting for his father to finish working on the ranch in southern Oregon.
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  • William McKinley Crews, 81, is reflected in the mirror as he shaves in the morning at the farmhouse where he has lived all his life. His hat collection hangs in his house in Moccasin Swamp, which has no electricity or running water. He keeps company with his 14 cats and four cows.He is one of the last of the "old swampers" a reference to early settlers who lived in rural wetlands.
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  • Evening on the ranch, a young cowboy stands under a full moon with his trained former mustang, Paiute. Decked out with a black hat, a sheriff's badge and red cape, Tanner follows in the footsteps of his mother who trains wild horses and learned the talents of her grandfather.
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  • A man and boy dressed in cowboy hat, jeans and button down shirts, balance while standing on top of horses at the Beef Empire Days rodeo event.
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  • A portrait of a cowboy wearing sunglasses, colored long sleeved shirt, a long handlebar mustache and a large, brimmed straw hat for Beef Empire Days event.
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  • Wearing a black hat, a sister waits while her brother unhooks a horse from a sled. Some Ladinos choose a simple life in LaVal the Dolomites, a village so isolated that the people there have their own language. In small villages, population continues to drop and older people go unmarried.
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  • Women weaving.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher looks out toward the ocean.
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  • A Cuban-American man who lifts weights every weekend.
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  • Workers unload and weigh fish on the dock of a cannery. Petersburg port has the largest home-based halibut fleet in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Cattle branding at a ranch in North Dakota.
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  • Mescal factory workers taking a lunch break.
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  • A bottled water plant in Hollis, Maine, has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • At the Mission Hills Golf Club, the largest in the world.
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  • An Aborigine and white man lighting up cigarettes together.
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  • A young adult drinks a flaming cocktail at the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou.
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  • Fishermen mend nets aboard a boat that is equipped with lights that attract squid.<br />
Asian markets demand fresh fish that puts great pressure on the aquatic populations.
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  • A long line fishermen is proud of his large catch.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
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Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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  • Race fans crowd the rail to cheer for their horse to win at Churchill Downs racetrack, a long-standing tradition at the Kentucky Derby.
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  • Father and son cross the Mexican border to celebrate a 21st birthday at a bar in a border town to Laredo, Texas.  The two laughed and sang with the Mariachi band with an accordion in the atmosphere among other tourists among the pinatas.
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  • Cowboys and cowgirls drink morning coffee before breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food.
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  • Cowboys joke over morning coffee before breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah near the Dugout Ranch. The Indian Creek ranch ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on some the Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment.
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  • Clothes hang from the ceiling while miners shower after their shift.
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  • Men in costume celebrating Schleicherlaufen.
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  • Men in costume celebrating Schleicherlaufen.
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  • A man in costume celebrating Schleicherlaufen.
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  • Kayakers come to the Saint Lawrence River to see whales.
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  • Kayakers with paddles wait to embark on an ecotour.
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  • Cave jumpers play in high surf from Hurricane Issac.
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  • A young girl investigates sea life at low tide on Moser Island in Southeast Alaska.<br />
Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich marine intertidal zones.
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  • Two girls beach-comb near the water's edge investigating crabs and other sea life at low tide in Southeast Alaska.<br />
Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich marine intertidal zones.
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  • The Logger of the Year winner hugs his girlfriend in red boots to celebrate after he won in the annual logging show held in Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island. The Southeast Alaskan competition is the “real thing”—not a tourist show—where loggers, former loggers, and “wannabe” loggers compete, climbing trees and sawing timber.
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  • Heads together, two girl friends beach-comb near the water's edge investigating sea life at low tide in Southeast Alaska. <br />
Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich marine intertidal zones.
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  • Japanese tourists view the Matterhorn and pose for photos with the iconic St. Bernard dogs in the Alps. Around two million tourists visit annually to Switzerland's most popular destination nearby Zermatt.
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  • A woman browses to shop for tourist postcards depicting the Alps mountain scenery and attractions at a street side stand catering to tourists in Chamonix.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Cattle branding at a ranch in North Dakota.
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  • A rancher moves cattle with the help of a herding border collie.
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  • Border collies are trained to help manage sheep.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Border collies on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Protest songs by two like-minded friends entertained picnic patrons on Kayford Mountain. Ken Hechler, left, represented West Virginia in the US House of Representatives for nearly 20 years and was Secretary of State from 1985-2001. He died in 2016 at age 102. George Daugherty, known as Earl of Elkview, a trial lawyer specializing in medical liability cases, was a regular on a televised statewide country music show and co-hosted NPR's Mountain Stage. He died in 2017 at age 86.
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  • Mountaintop removal involves miners setting up explosive charges at a small coal mine operating in West Virginia. The top of the mountain is blown off with sticks of dynamite in order to obtain a small seam of coal.
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  • Lorene Caudill prepares for their move by taking down family photographs. She and her husband Therman endured eight years of coal dust and foundation-shaking dynamite blasts as Hobet 21, one of the largest surface mines in the state, inched slowly toward them. They put up apples from their last garden and packed their belongings after signing a letter of intent to sell their beloved home to a coal company.<br />
The Caudills, along with other family members, did achieve a small victory by preserving ownership of a nearby ancestral home but only after a long battle—all the way to the West Virginia Supreme Court—with the coal company.  No one lives there now but the extended family gathers on weekends to garden and for dinners at the house, which was completely surrounded by mining. Since then, the house was burned down by arsonists.<br />
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The Caudill house, where they had planned on spending the rest of their lives, is a half-mile down the road from the old homestead. They are some of the last to leave the community. Therman Caudill, a retired schoolteacher said, “It took the coal company 125 years to run the Caudill family out of Mud River, but they finally did it.”
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  • Cowboys from central Utah wait for a signal to begin branding young calves and an errant dog finds his way back to safety. Separated when they were moving cattle, the dog jumped up into the saddle upon seeing his owner. The ranch is surrounded by federal land of the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Canyonlands National Park with spectacular views or the orange walls surrounding Indian Creek.
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  • A young girl waits for her turn to go at an 1800's fashion show at the Waleski Farm.
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  • A 1931 Ford Cabriolet drives down National Road.
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  • Aspiring chefs watch a demonstration as a dish is prepared in a class at the Cu linary Institute of America.
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  • Chilean cowboys in traditional Andalusian sombreros watch as huasos wearing colorful ponchos line up their horses under a flag in the ring. They are competing in a rodeo in ranch country north of Santiago by pinning a steer and trying to beat the clock.
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  • American tourists don sombreros and sing with a mariachi band at a cantina bar in Nuevo Laredo, a quirky border town.
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  • Huastec Indian seller and an indigenous woman haggle over the price of a pig at the local outdoor market held every Sunday morning in Ciudad Valles.
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  • Tourists on safari.
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  • Plastic bottles fill a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.
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  • Plastic bottles move down the conveyer belt at Poland Spring where between 345 and 425 employees working at the Hollis, Maine site oversee an array of computers and the water bottle production line. The 838,000 square-foot facility is the largest bottled water plant in the world, turning out about 80 million cases of water every year. Some of the machines fill 1,200 bottles per minute. The plant has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • Cowboys watch the White River Rodeo from a wooden grandstand above the outdoor arena.
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  • An ecstatic Deb Hedberg is honored with flowers and a banner as Miss Beef Empire, Queen of the Beef Empire Days competition at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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  • Makeup and costumes for young girls are part of the preparation for the Beef Empire Days princess contest at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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  • Two cowboys on horseback drive in cows to a cattle auction facility in Nebraska.
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  • A young girl stands on a plastic chair roping plastic calf in a parking lot during Beef Empire Days in Garden City, Kansas. <br />
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The High Plains culture of cowboys and beef queens are is where a girl can rope a sculpture of a steer and dream of being a cowgirl out on the range.
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  • A photographer, wearing a blood-splattered shirt from a celebration of the Daasanach tribe.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Goats drink at the bank of Lake Turkana.
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  • A goat is killed, roasted and shared at a wedding celebration.
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  • Main street of the Kakuma refugee camp.
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  • Main street of the Kakuma refugee camp.
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  • Main street of the Kakuma refugee camp.
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  • Main street of the Kakuma refugee camp.
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  • Workers boring a tunnel that will divert the Omo River.
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  • Sections of an oil and natural gas pipeline is stockpiled near Sobolevo.<br />
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The pipeline cuts through the marine environment, and across the shelf and through many of the salmon rivers in the country. Once completed, this will destroy river environments and open up access roads for more poaching. The new government in Kamchatka is willing to risk the salmon fisheries, which generate 30 percent of all the fish caught in Russia and 40 percent of the income, for a fraction of the natural gas and oil that exists in plentiful amounts elsewhere in Russia. Kamchatka used to be divided into two provinces with two local governments. These were combined recently with the stated objective of resource development. By resources they mean oil and gas drilling on the Kamchatka shelf with a pipeline to the port in PK. The Kamchatka league of independent experts deemed that 70 percent of all rivers crossed by the pipeline are permanently degraded for long-term fish production.
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  • The Fortune Land International Hotel has embraced the boutique hotel concept of the U.S., but on steroids. Giant mushrooms hang from the lobby ceiling above strange-looking and not always comfortable chair-pods.
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  • Staff and customers at a Thai restaurant in an upscale shopping mall.
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  • A construction site near Raffles City.
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  • Adjusting the uniforms of guards at the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • A resident exits a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • A guard stands outside a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • A  flamboyant bar in south China attracts new wealth. In the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou, the bartender sets up a stack of glasses, then pours a flaming liquid over the top to make one of the most popular drinks, a Flaming Lamborghini. Young people demand nice places to eat and drink. The news bombards us every day about how China’s economic engine will change our world. At the center of this engine is the “Little Capitalist” class or ”Comfort Class.” This group embraces Deng Xiaoping’s revolutionary proclamation, “To get rich is glorious.” After 50 years of pent up frustration and stoically weathering the worst social experiment in history—Mao’s Cultural Revolution—this class is ready to lead the charge for the most voracious consumption on the planet. Of the five major commodities (grain, meat, oil, coal and steel), only oil consumption is less than the United States. This consumption is estimated to increase by 18 percent each year for the next decade, compared with 2 percent for the U.S.<br />
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The number of Chinese adults under 30 was expected to swell 61%, to 500 million by 2015, equivalent to the entire population of the European Union. Ironically populated by children whose parent’s lives were ruined by Mao precisely because they were capitalists, this “Comfort Class” came of age after Tiananmen Square in 1989. They are politically apathetic. To them, Tiananmen Square was a failure and they just want a nice life. Estimates vary, but the higher claims are that there are 150 million in the comfort class, which would equal the size of the U.S. middle class. As their culture turbo-evolves and our culture devolves it is hard not to compare both in terms of political apathy, cushy lifestyle, and preoccupation with the pursuit of consumer goods.
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  • A laborer at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Poor villagers plant grass at Sasakwa Lodge.
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  • Two Ladin men share the news over a cup of morning coffee in a restaurant in the village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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