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Colin Ferguson thoughts

April 22, 2011 Gloria Trevi Art

A decade or so ago Bhutan said they’d start tracking Gross National Happiness. GNH, as it’s called, is an attempt to measure the summed joy of a nation’s citizens. It’s meant to be an upgrade of the concept of Gross National Product. GNP is the measure of how much value is created by citizens of a nation. In this case,, instead of measuring the economy of a nation and all the things that money can buy money (and what money can buy) GNH measures how happy nations are. At least that’s the concept. It’s not exactly used in the real world yet – and for some valid reasons.

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Birth Of Kanji Script

April 7, 2011 Johnny Chung Art

The Kanji script is today related more so with the country of Japan rather than China although the script was originally developed in China. The modern Japanese logographic writing system was derived by the help of Chinese characters which they adopted into their system. The term kanji transforms as Han characters which are Chinese in origin.

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