This is a slightly older post on Mop (from October 2009) but it has gotten over 20,000 comments (and a lot of support) and somehow it has reached the top of the charts again. It seems to reflect a lot of the mainstream sentiment of how to be a 爷们. I guess it would translate to something like “manly man,” or “real man,” but it should be interpreted in a Chinese context.
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How to be a Real Man, according to some Chinese guy
http://www.chinahush.com –
China faces growing gender imbalance
http://news.bbc.co.uk –
More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses by 2020, says the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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Be careful not to bend your gender in Japanese
http://search.japantimes.co.jp –
One of the biggest omissions in Japanese textbooks, classes and one-on-one lessons is gendered language. Ignore it and at some point you will wind up sounding like a little Japanese girl — or a guy — when you didn't intend too.
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UN: Japan 10th Place and Falling in World Human Development Index
http://guyjin.me –
The latest issue of the annual UN Human Development Index (HDI) from the UN Development Program shows Japan in 10th place in the world. Japan’s place amongst the developed nations of the world has been falling over the last 20 years.
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A Japanese look at gender and sexuality in Jamaica
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com –
SACHIYO Morimoto has only visited Jamaica four times, but her short stays in the island has provided her with a wealth of information on issues of gender and sexuality in the dancehall arena
Read more »Japan falls to lamentable 98th in gender equality 'league'
http://www.weforum.org –
According to the World Economic Forum's annual assessment, Japan is slipping even further down the list of countries it studies in terms of gender equality, and now ranks 98th out of the 130.
Read more »Strong women and weak men
http://mdn.mainichi.jp –
women are strong and men are weak.... & don't you argue with a woman.
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