#1. I am in Mexico in what one would consider to be an upscale vacation resort. Its not my favorite one in Cancun (although that's not saying much, because I am not really in Cancun's fan Club) but its fairly nice. I'm sure non elitist and non snobby travelers unlike myself would probably say it was fabulous.
The disturbing part: I just had a conversation with our hotel convention manager and we were making small talk about working in a hotel in Mexico. I was intrigued that he told me that a working week for salaried employees here is 6 days a week and 11 hours a day. And that is what they are scheduled....a lot of times they end up working more. What I find so interesting is that this is a college educated man, with impeccable English, and this is a pretty good job to have in Mexico. It really is a completely different world down here.
#2 I just read an article about Georgia and their Russian conflict (I guess that is what I will call it). I'm not going to get on a soapbox about what Russia did...but I am going to make a comment about the media on this one. The article I read on CNN.com referred to Russia as the "the ex-communist nation". Seriously? Do we have to go there?
Russia has not been communist for almost 20 years. It took us long enough to stop calling them the "Former Soviet Union". I may not agree with what is happening, but slipping incendiary labels in news articles is not cool in my book. This writer was from the Associated Press, and has written for such papers as the Chicago Tribune, and New York Times. He should know better. This is CNN, not some pseudo editorial on some blog somewhere.
Just because there are people out there who don't like the Russians, is no reason to play on stereotypes. What if we put those kind of labels on other news stories?
Ex-adulterer John McCain and his ex-prescription drug abusing wife.....
Ex-uppity black church member Barack Obama.....
Ex-slave owning Country of the United States....or even ex-British Colony, the United States
Ex-drunk driver President George Bush....
Ex-knocked up teenager Oprah Winfrey....
I'd like to see a news article from a ligitimate news site or newspaper that uses any of those!
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