Day 1,781: aggrandise

In recent months short videos have been popping up online which play to their feelings of superiority and continue a tradition of using foreigners to aggrandise China.

Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men

Artwork of the day 
The Power of Music
Oskar Kokoschka
Date: c.1918 - c.1920
Style: Expressionism
Genre: allegorical painting
Location: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Word of the day 
aggrandise: to make someone more powerful or important

Quote of the day
“A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.”

― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies