Word: ruralization
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...many ways, Li embodies the Chinese dream: poor country boy works hard, becomes the only one from his school to go to college and makes it in the big city. But Li is concerned about those who didn't make it: the 100 million rural inhabitants--including his own parents--who have fled exorbitant taxes and dwindling agricultural prices and flooded the cities in search of work. Those migrants are what Li calls "ghosts in the city." "They have built the cities that China is proud of," he says, "but they are barely treated as human beings...
...Club outside Beijing, it's different. Alan Li, 31, the store's deputy manager, encourages workers to contribute ideas about efficiency, and managers tell employees what's going on. "It doesn't matter who you know here," says Li, a high school graduate from a peasant family in rural China. "All that matters is your work." In a country of 1.3 billion people, the Wal-Mart way may not yet amount to a great leap forward. But it is progress...
Hwang was born just after the Korean War and grew up in a poor rural village in Chungcheong province, three hours from Seoul. "It was difficult to survive," he says. His father died when he was 5, and his mother raised six children by helping wealthier neighbors take care of their cows. After school, Hwang would look after the three cows assigned to his family. He decided then that he wanted to study the animals when he grew...
Warren works as a museum educator in rural Georgia, Eggers is pursuing a PhD in government at Harvard, Palmer is working as a freelance filmmaker, and Guvench, while “still figuring out” his long-term career goals, is currently working for Media Unbound, a music recommendation start-up founded by several recent Harvard alums...
...grew up on the reservation,” she says. “It’s very rural, poor....Reservations aren’t known for being great places.” She lists poverty, diabetes, and alcoholism as common problems on reservations...