Chinese holiday names are not dead yet, although I would hardly call them alive either: they are truly undead vocabularies. - Thorsten Pattberg

We must begin to find the untranslatables in each culture and return them to world history.

The US, Germany, France and Britain were never real democracies. Far from it, the US is a plutocracy with a post-monarchal king's court (the White House) and a holy scripture (the constitution). The three others are tedious class societies.

Honesty and facts are almost irrelevant. Getting attention is key, causing offence is desirable, and provoking a physical response is the jackpot.