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Women of the Buffalo Chinese Fashion Group align to show traditional Chinese clothing at the 2023 Lunar New Year celebration hosted by CCWNY at University at Buffalo's Center for the Arts. pc: Cait Malilay The Chinese Club of Western New York hosted a Lunar New Year celebration at University at Buffalo's Center for the Arts on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. An estimate of 1200 people attended this year's celebration of the year of the rabbit. Jun Wang-Tiedemann, the president of CCWNY, said that the rabbit is a symbol of "prosperity, longevity and positivity." "It is a year for contemplation, hope and relaxation. Our goal for this event is to celebrate and raise awareness for Asian Chinese culture in Western New York," she said. Guests were greeted at the door where they received a red pouch with goodies. CCWNY sells Chinese paper cut artwork. pc: Cait Malilay There were tables where they could learn more about the culture, like the art of Chinese paper cutting ,...

pc: IG / @cait_malilay_reads "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them" by Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University, Ph.D., is basically your introduction to fascism college course, or, in other words, Fascism 101.  At 193 pages long, if you don't include acknowledgments, one can definitely complete this in one sitting. Just because I personally describe it as fascism 101, one must certainly not underestimate the quality of the content as it is well worth the read indeed.  The Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy defines what fascism is in, if not all, most of its forms. Broken into 10 chapters, each goes into depth of a key idea of fascism and provides examples. He points out how one may think that fascism was a threat only long ago back in World War II, the days of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, but as he concludes, "It is tempting to think of normal as benign...there is no need for alarm. However both history and psychology show tha...