Because, hey, if we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

And sometimes asking the real celebrity, mistaking them for someone who just looks like the real person, which is highly embarrassing. .

China is now America s third largest and most rapidly growing export market. There can be no mistaking its potential to fill some of the void left by US consumers.

Egyptian porn before Nasser featured local beauties and voyeurism, but now focuses on fair haired and pale skinned women, sometimes with forced sex as a theme. Egyptian born Sheik Hilaly, in Sydney, may have been verbalizing a latent sense of otherness and mistaking it for insight.

You may recall the story of Richard Nixon attending the independence celebrations in Ghana. At a gala reception, he went up to one guest, mistaking him for a local, and asked what it felt like to be able to vote and enjoy freedom under the rule of law.

There was no mistaking the power and symbolism of the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8. That multimedia spectacular did far more than trace China s 5,000 year history it was a statement that China is a major civilization that demands and deserves its rightful place in the global hierarchy.

Although the government does not publish regular productivity statistics, there is no mistaking the problem Overall urban employment growth has been steady, at around 13.2 million workers per year since 2013 well in excess of the government s targeted growth rate of ten million. Moreover, hiring seems to be holding at that brisk pace in early 2015.

There was also no mistaking the symbolism of seeing President Bush, waving cheerfully from his spot in the bleachers while Chinese President Hu Jintao sat behind what looked more like a throne. It is hard to imagine that China s government, which obsesses over every minute issue of diplomatic protocol, had not orchestrated this stark image of America s decline relative to the country to which it owes 1.4 trillion.