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...Today, school curriculums that had focused on Chinese history and geography center on Taiwan. Learning a local dialect such as Taiwanese, Hakka or aborigine - languages the KMT once banned in the classrooms - is now compulsory in elementary school. Today's youth and pop artists have also sparked a movement that embraces local culture. An ethnic slur, taike - which Taiwan's mainlanders used decades ago to describe the uncultured locals they found on the island - has become something cool. Taike now means a "Taiwanese character" (as in "that guy's a real character"). In his hit rap song I Love...
...island's south - DPP territory - where he often bypasses hotels to stay in the homes of ordinary folk. At one rally of labor unionists in Taipei, Ma made sure to lead the crowd in cheers of "Taiwan will win!" in both Mandarin, the language of the mainlanders, and the local Taiwanese dialect. "I eat Taiwan rice, drink Taiwan water," he recently proclaimed. "I will die and be buried here as Taiwanese...
Asia has always had great street food, and you can get perfect crepes in Paris and amazing tacos in Mexico City. Now American food snobs are separating themselves from regular snobs by lining up outside food trucks. And they're willing to wait longer--and pay more--than at local fast-food restaurants. "In the beginning I was a little wigged out by the fact that people had to wait in line for 20 minutes, but I'm not going to precook burgers so that people can go home earlier," says Josh Henderson, 35, who makes dishes like the aforementioned...
...Square’s latest entrée into the world of fast-food Mexican: Chipotle. Chipotle—the Denver-based burrito chain—is hosting its grand opening today. Yesterday, the restaurant handed out free burritos from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., serving thousands of students, local residents and Chipotle devotees who made pilgrimages from around the area, despite the rain. At times, the waiting time to get one of the hot, tin-foiled wrapped burritos topped 45 minutes. Many of those waiting had never tasted Chipotle before, such as Michael D. Burks...
...even began keeping two sets of books - one for internal use that described prison deficiencies in telling detail, and a second set that Jones describes as "doctored" for public consumption, to limit bad publicity, litigation or fines that could derail CCA's multimillion-dollar contracts with federal, state or local agencies...