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...Anyone can be themselves on the Web, but the second skin of an online identity means that anyone can also be anyone else or say anything on the Web. We’re now both the providers and the audience, which means that the new culture includes people like Ji Lee, who “both know how [the system] works and. . .how to break it,” according to Connor. Ji Lee was once the artistic director for the global advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi. Now, he works as the branding director for Droga5, a boutique advertising agency...
...Kelly ’09, president of the Association of Black Harvard Women. “The problems will continue to be perpetuated no matter how many times the U.S. government says ‘we’re sorry,’” she said. Jin-Ji Kim ’10, another audience member, disagreed. “People underestimate the symbolic aspect [of an apology]. You might say it’s all abstract and won’t do anything, but at the bottom of people’s hearts, it still rings true...
Known to his full-time students as Swamiji (swami for spiritual teacher; ji, a title of respect), he is well aware that he is his own best advertisement: he glows as disciples introduce him as a man who has had the same weight and waist size for 60 years and who can still swing a mean bat on his cricket team. He loves to mention his similarly consistent record in marriage: "One wife, 52 years," he boasts...
...politics. That sets them apart from previous generations of Chinese élites, whose lives were defined by the epic events that shaped China's past half-century: the Cultural Revolution, the opening to the West, the student protests in Tiananmen Square and their subsequent suppression. The conversation at Gang Ji Restaurant suggests today's twentysomethings are tuning all that out. "There's nothing we can do about politics," says Chen. "So there's no point in talking about it or getting involved...
...hardly Tiananmen, but a small triumph for free expression nonetheless. And if the West hopes to see China become democratic as well as prosperous, it will have to find ways to encourage modest breakthroughs like these, rather than expect sweeping change. At the Gang Ji Restaurant, where the dishes have been cleared and fresh fruit and more tea brought in, the mood is reflective. "We are lucky compared to our parents," says Maria Zhang, who works as a membership manager in one of the capital's most exclusive clubs. "My parents had nothing themselves. They lived for me." Wang Ning...