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The Summer/Fall 2009 edition of The California Native Newsletter is now in the mail. The newsletter, published by The California Native since 1984, has more than 10,000 readers (not counting those who download from the web). If you are not already a subscriber to this free newsletter you can signup now.
This issues feature stories include:
This is the second in our series of Images of the World taken over the course of the last twenty-five years since the founding of The California Native.
| In Mexico’s Copper Canyon, a Tarahumara girl carries her baby sister on her back. |  |
| In Chilean Patagonia youngsters demonstrate traditional dances. |  |
2008 will likely be remembered as the year that put China on the map. Of course, China has always been a very large and extremely populated presence on any map. However, government rule throughout the decades has kept the exotic culture of China shrouded in mystery and, in many ways, closed to the outside world.
With the close of the Olympics in the host city of Beijing, chances are that you have learned more about China in the past few months than at any time before. Beijing pulled out all the stops to show itself as a modern city. Much of the pageantry surrounding the Olympics served to highlight the new face of China. Nothing compares with the Olympics when looked at as a stage that helps bring the world together. While Beijing remains a hot spot for travel, the rest of China is as vast and diverse as the sports represented in the Olympics.
On the other end of the country, far from bustling Beijing is Yunnan Province—home to the largest variety of ethnic groups in China. The California Native gives the following advice to those traveling to China:
English is pretty much the international language and it takes many shapes around the world. In China, it takes turns that are sometimes hard for a native English speaker to follow.
Following are photos of signs that we have taken along our California Native tours of Yunan Province in China.
Although they don’t follow our idea of English, we are sure that the persons who made the signs speak English much better than we speak Chinese. Read the rest of this entry »
