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Mexican Buddhist Cholos of Bangkok

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The Google Corporation (Alphabet, Inc.) is mad at us for daring to run an AFP story on the "Mexican Buddhist Cholos of Thailand."

Perhaps the algorithm did not like the use of the word Mxn or gngstrs or maybe it's the combination of the two terms too close together. They don't tell you; they just cloak it behind a censorship warning.

But this is an amazing phenomenon showing American hegemony and its unintended consequences.

Imagine traveling to Asia and seeing all these homeboys and homegirls straight outta Los Angeles standing around, all tatted up, with lowriders, the de rigueur fashions, and gesturing to each other as they smoke, drink, and presumably g*ngbang. lol. You'd never imagine you were in Japan, but you would be.

It would be a sight, the Chicano Movement spread to Asian Buddhists with a fashion sense. How did it go from LA to Tokyo to Bangkok? Much of it has also spread to strange midwestern states in the USA, but that's due to drugs and dealers.

It is all supposed to be Nuestra Cosa, y'know, an L.A. thang. Y'all wouldn't understand, just as so much of what goes on in the South is a [Confederate] thang.

Inside Chicana Lowrider Culture - on the mean/fashionable streets of Los Angeles, Cali 🇺🇸🇲🇽

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(Coconuts TV) Coconuts TV Exclusive [is nuts and has] weird, wonderful, and real stories from Asia. Subscribe: bit.ly/CoconutsTV. There's a curious new trend that has emerged in Bangkok, Thailand [LA's parallel city in Asia, both sharing a very long name and both being about the same size, two megalopolises.] Young Thai men [and females, too] are dressing up like Latino gangsters. Most of these guys say they are motivated by their passion for the "gangster" lifestyle and clothes [but the more recent ones have gotten into the world-fanmous lowrider car culture, probably due to rap videos glorifying it]. Coconuts TV met up with three [faux Theravada Buddhist] "gangs" -- Balcony Pain, Fratez, and D Sixty -- for a photoshoot and to learn more about the quizzical phenomenon. #cholos #bangkok #thailand Music: Down AKA Kilo - "Lean like a Cholo"

• Coconuts TV, March 20, 2014

Singapore haze; Indonesia forest slash-n-burn

Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Rujun Shen from Singapore (Reuters.com, 5-21-14)

Smoke haze obscures building under construction, Singapore March 2014 (Tim Wimborne)

  
Singapore braces for worst smoke "haze" as Indonesia slashes-and-burns forests
Singapore is approaching its yearly "haze" [dense air pollution] season, when smoke from forest clearing in Indonesia chokes the air, with this year likely to be worse than 2013's record pollution thanks to lack of action in Jakarta and an expected El Nino weather pattern.

The prosperous city-state, which prides itself on its clean air, was shrouded in heavy smog from slash-and-burn clearances on the neighbouring Indonesian island of Sumatra last June which sent its air pollution index to a record high.

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One year on, and an election-distracted government in Indonesia has still not ratified the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2002 Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, and fires continue to burn in Sumatra.

That is despite outrage in Singapore as well as environmental groups putting pressure on Jakarta. Fires are used to clear land on plantations and can burn for weeks because of peat deposits below the surface.

There is also a growing likelihood of an El Nino weather pattern this year, meaning Singapore, as well as parts of Indonesia and Malaysia, could be set for months of intense haze with a knock-on effect on health and business, especially tourism. More

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Life on the Thai-Burma border

Burmese people wanting to get into Thailand are able to do so on rubber inner tubes, but many are then sent back by Thai authorities on semi-official boats (BBC).

(BBC) 2010 looks set to be a crucial year for Burma, with the military government planning to stage the first elections in twenty years. Western nations are pursuing new policies of pragmatic engagement and rethinking their sanctions against the reclusive [totalitarian] state.

However, progress may seem like a distant prospect for ordinary Burmese people, who rely on neighboring Thailand to trade goods or access basic services like healthcare. In the first part of a series looking at life in the region, the BBC's Rachel Harvey reports from the border town of Mae Sot, in the far north of Thailand. She finds out about the different ways people manage to cross from one country into the other. Listen now:

Generation Wave is a group of hip-hop loving, young Burmese people, dedicated to overthrowing the military government. Rachel Harvey visits them at their safe house in Mae Sot. More>>

• BBC Burmese Service

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