{"id":226196,"date":"2010-01-25T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2010-01-25T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:08:19","slug":"china%e2%80%99s-real-life-munchkin-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226196","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Real-Life Munchkin Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another way in which 21st-century China trumps America: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/china\/6245665\/Dwarves-found-theme-park-commune-to-escape-bullying.html\">Telegraph<\/a> reports on a mountain town in Kunming, China, where all of the citizens are dwarves. This sounds so magical:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Everyone in the commune must be under 4ft 3 ins tall and they run their own police force and fire brigade from their 120 residents. Now the group has turned itself into a tourist attraction by building mushroom houses and living and dressing like fairy tale characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs small people we are used to being pushed around and exploited by big people. But here there aren\u2019t any big people and everything we do is for <a href=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/tag\/us\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag nofollow\" title=\"Posts tagged with us\">us<\/a>,\u201d said spokesman Fu Tien.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/47c73_dwarf_1491953c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"crp_related\">\n<h3>Possibly Related Posts:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2009\/10\/23\/china-%e2%80%98building-cyberwarfare-capability%e2%80%99-us-report-claims.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"crp_title\">China \u2018building cyberwarfare capability\u2019 US report claims<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nw0.eu\/2009\/11\/03\/space-arms-race-inevitable-says-chinese-commander.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"crp_title\">Space arms race inevitable says Chinese commander<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a 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