Chinese women seeking second marriages in US

New America Media writer Jun Wang reports that some middle-aged Chinese women are now turning to American cities to find their new husbands. In a report, which is part of a NAM series on elders in America, Jun writes:

Sue Zhang never thought that her mother would marry an American man on her first visit to the United States.

But Zhang, a Chinese graduate student living in Montgomery, Ala., now translates for the newlywed couple, who don’t speak a common language.

Zhang’s 57-year-old mother, Guangzhen Lu, is a retired primary school teacher from Hubei Province, China. She lived alone for years after her husband died.

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Electronic media dictates reality

A new trend in which the electronic world dictates our reality has begun, says New America Media editor Andrew Lam in an article titled “Ten minutes of Fame”.

Lam's piece has relevance to Kerala in view of its own experience of reality shows.

Andrew Lam writes:

Future historians may very well look back at the beginning of the 21st century as an era in which the human mind developed into a split screen, with one eye on real space and the other ogling the electronic mirror. MORE