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发帖数: 2895 | 1 Beijing (CNN) -- The Super Bowl usually comes and goes without much notice
in China.
However, this year, America's famous sporting event took a different turn
when a television advertisement featuring Tibetans and a Chicago-area
Himalayan restaurant triggered angry comments from internet users in China.
The ad by Groupon -- a U.S.-based company that helps online group-buyers get
discounts -- was to generate support for The Tibet Fund, an organization
that aims to preserve Tibetan culture.
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发帖数: 42149 | 2 达姆塔里县（Dhamtari）成为了印度中部恰蒂斯加尔邦第一个不必露天排便的地区。
这一切都要归功于一位105岁的老人孔瓦尔-亚达夫（Kunwar Bai Yadav）。
她出售了自己唯一的资产——几只山羊，在村庄里建造了第一个厕所。
老人亚达夫生活在距离恰蒂斯加尔邦的首府100多公里的一个小村庄，那里只有18户家庭。
在过去的近一个世纪里，亚达夫和所有居民一样，都在附近的一个树林里上厕所。
去年，印度在中部地区发起了大规模的运动，鼓励人们建造厕所，政府官员被派往最偏远的地区，告诉人们结束露天排便的好处，那是亚达夫第一次听说厕所。
但是慢慢地，附近村庄的农民也开始修建自己的厕所了。
去年整个地区只有60所房子有厕所，而一年之内，村里的每家每户已经都有了一个厕所。
“那时之前，我不知道厕所，也从来没想过。”她告诉记者。“但他说的话让我思考，那听起来像个好主意。我已经很难每天走到森林去上厕所了，今年我就跌倒了两次。”
于是，亚达夫决定自己修建厕所。
她唯一的资产是自己饲养的20多只山羊，老人卖了18,000卢比（大约1800人民币），雇佣四个工人工作了15天。
村子里的第一个厕所诞生后，很... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 18660 | 3 "No, not really, it's not making a difference," one server told me this
afternoon. Its owner, Vivek Kunwar, is more optimistic: "Right now I don't
think people are jumping and driving to our restaurant right away because of
the weather. But with the exposure, it will definitely have an effect."
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