Republican Convention

I follow some media on Twitter and Facebook. Today's main news was Melania Trump's speech at US Republican Convention. She is Dnald Trump's wife. 

Her speech was obviously similar to one of a Michelle Obama's speech. Melania Trump copied Michelle's famous 2008 Democrats Convention speech.  

How come Trump's stuff didn't notice Melania's plagiarism? Didn't she practice her speech in front of the stuff? Didn't professional writer write the speech? It was a mystery. 

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A Rude Question

I joined a meeting held by a volunteer tour guide group yesterday.  An American young guy gave us a lecture about foreign tourists. He was a 23-year-old New Yorker. 

After his presentation, he allowed us some questions. The questions should be related tourism or so. But some member asked a weird question. He asked, "before World War 2, we have lots of reminded original castles here in Japan. During the war time, the U.S troops were bombing many Japanese city and destroyed historical landmarks including castles. Now, we have only 12 of them. What do you think of that?"

The atmosphere there was frozen. Obviously, he shouldn't ask that kind of question at the time. If he really wanted to ask that, he should ask him after they made a trust relationship and in private. 

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US Destroyer Cruises Disputed Water

U.S. military sent a guided missile destroyer into disputed area, the South China Sea. This would be a President Obama's warning to China. Chinese government has been building military facilities on the landfill reefs where only China claims as their own territories. 

The Obama's decision was too late to suppress Chinese desire for expanding their territories for the water. I can't understand his slow action for the controversial Chinese activities of the South China Sea. Vietnam and other nations were trying to prevent the China's behavior, but the president didn't do anything for it. 

It's important to put pressure on China over territorial matters. Otherwise, they will continue to expand their territories by the power. 

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A Massacre in Huston

A 15-year-old girl was survived under a mass shooting by former her aunt's husband. Sadly, she lost her parents, two sisters and two brothers. She was only surviver of the rampage. 

At her family's memorial service, she quoted a line from the Harry Potter series. "Happiness can be found in the darkest of the times, if only remembers to turn on the light."

This kind of tragedies happen in the US so often. Obviously, severe gun control is needed. 

To Stop Selling Cigarettes

According to the BBC radio this morning, CVS Caremark, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the US, will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products. 

The shops will reduce their profit but they said it's the right thing to do. It seems strange they sell health care products but on the other hand they sell health destroy products now.

The BBC said about 18% of Americans are current cigarette smokers today. This policy will influence other stores and will cut down the number of smokers in the U.S.

Succeed Groups in the US

I've read an article about some groups succeed in the US. The groups are Cubans, Jews, Indians, Nigerians, Mormons, Iranians and Lebanese.

The groups are helping each other to success their works. They have strong network of their groups. It seems Japanese don't have such a strong network in the US. I'm sorry about that. Japanese should help each other more in foreign countries.