Culture Change in China

First Coke, then Mac D's, now this! Globalization proceeds apace.

SHANGHAI, China -- The Hooters girls have come to China, orange hot pants and all. China's first Hooters restaurant opened in Shanghai last October. The chain began as a Florida beach bar in 1983. It now boasts more than 384 restaurants worldwide. The waitresses in China wear the same tight outfits as their American counterparts, despite the more conservative outlook of the country.

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And in a related story [I suppose]:

BEIJING (Reuters) - Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup-sizes in China because improved nutrition is busting all previous chest measurement records.

"It's so different from the past when most young women would wear A- or B-cup bras," Triumph brand saleswoman Zhang Jing told the Shanghai Daily from the Landmark Plaza of China's commercial hub.

"You...never expect those thin women to have such nice figures if they are not plastic."

The report, seen on the daily's Web site Tuesday, said that the Hong Kong-based lingerie firm Embry Group no longer produces A-cups for larger chest circumferences and has increased production of C-, D- and E-cup bras to meet pressing demand.

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Note that the girl checking out the bras is wearing blue jeans. The world, she sure is a'changin'. In this instance I think it's for the better. [And for my Philly correspondent, that is not a sexist remark, I was thinking of the benefits of better nutrition. Yeah..., that's what I was thinking! Really!]