Friday, February 3, 2012

More evidence of the decline of America

MORE EVIDENCE OF THE DECLINE OF AMERICA


"The Chinese ... drank hardly any beer, until as recently as 1980, consuming 0.2 billion litres a year, as against 24 billion litres in the United States. Since

2003, however, China has overtaken America as the largest market for beer, and now drinks a fifth of all the beer in the world."

--Bee Wilson, "Drink beer, it makes you drunk," The Times Literary Supplement (January 27, 2012), p. 5; image from

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