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Greetings from Anne Enke and Anne of Carversville
“This is who we are” on January 28, 2026.
Dear friends. Squarespace is making posts very difficult this morning. While we’re working on the solve, I will tell you a little story.
Dinner in Taipei
Food has always been a source of global communion and communication for me. The following is a true story:
Imagine co-hosting a dinner party in Taipei with Anne insisting that she was cooking dinner in the house of two gay guys who barely knew why soup spoons existed. But they were superb in business.
So I had to bring everything. Now United called me Queen Victoria and there was no problem loading up the contents of my luggage in Chicago.
Customs in Taipei was another matter. There were cooking utensils in my bags. Baking sheets for the oven. Waxed paper and many spices.
My friends barely had one pot for the stove.
A supervisor was called to examine the situation. Be assured that I brought no sharp knives; and I’ve talked my way out of complicated encounters all over the world.
There was a problem as he flicked through my passport that had been amended with inserts of more pages four times. This was my 25th visit to Taiwan in four years.
Months — no years — of my life spilled out before him. In that moment I had few secrets — except that I’m a global citizen.
I want to say he smiled, but that’s doubtful. He did go eyeball to eyeball, because eye contact is very important for my communication skills, and my eyes were waiting for him. Goodness knows what he was thinking when our eyes met, but handing my precious passport to me, he said:
“Welcome back, Ms. Enke. You must have friends here . . . very close friends.”
I was good to go.
Meet Peng Chang
Astonished to wake up this morning and discover 600 visitors from Vietnam arriving in six hours and a similar number from Brazil, I felt a tremendous responsibility to be here to greet you.
I did a little bow to the VIPs, expressed gratitude for giving me a voice in a very important part of the world and searched for the most-read story on Anne of Carversville.
It’s not sexy supermodels in bathing suits. It’s a story about sustainability and climate change.
The top story is ‘Heat Wave’ with model Peng Chan lensed by Zhong Lin.
The story appeared in the January 2022 issue of Vogue Taiwan.
While we get the story installed here in New Humanism, you can read it now in the Fashion channel.
Related: Peng Chang AOC Archives; Zhong Lin AOC Archives
I’ve also pulled the new research on the critical views among young Asians and Brazilians on climate change.
You have much to teach the Americans about this topic. Our own track record is not a good one.
That research information will be posted today, once Squarespace gets out of our way, so we can function properly. ~ Anne
“This is who we are” on January 21, 2026.
Our website — yours and mine — has been turned upside down and inside out in the last 110 days.
Major traffic for a small website — 10,000 visits a day and building — is coming from people all over the world to AOC.
I’ve had tech experts examine the traffic. We all agree that an initial AI bot spike is followed by a significant lift in legit traffic.
This dramatic change began in October 2025, when I changed the name of this page to New Humanism. In July 2025, I had flipped the AI search button on.
One of the world’s biggest countries is at the heart of this change. Because I’ve worked all over the world in my long life, I’ll leave you guessing which one.
The Brazil-China Axis
In a client-centered convo last week, I learned about China’s multiple initiatives in Brazil — and especially their joint cultural initiatives.
While we were talking about the brand’s new initiatives in Brazil, I was using AI to create a profile around Brazilian culture.
I always hit the ‘in last year’ button, not only 5000 years of history. Boom: the story was quickly about Brazil and China. Not Brazil only.
The AOC creative archives in both countries — China and Brazil — are deep.
My ‘lived work experience’ is much deeper in China — far beyond Hong Kong — but my psychic roots are very tied to Brazil and also Paris. My American ancestry via my grandparents is: British, Danish, German, Swedish.
I’ve fought for social justice since I was six years old, putting enormous stress on my immediate family relationships.
Championed by grandmothers, and aunts and uncles, I was a fish out of water in my immediate family. My father was proud of me, but he was solo in his admiration.
My low profile on social media is deliberate. It keeps me safe, able to focus on people and issues I care about, and building trust with readers that AOC is a safe space.
We do not allow comments, based on awful experiences with allowing comments. They tend to bring out the worst in people.
Our immediate goals in helping new friends navigate AOC are to:
Clarify the global history of Humanism and Humanists right here, right now.
Clarify what Anne means by New Humanism. Why isn’t humanism good enough?
Dig deeply into our collective humanity and trade routes — especially the Silk Road trade routes. At heart, Anne is a trader, not a philosopher.
For thoughtful people, being a trader opens up respect for our human differences while recognizing our commonalities.
Read, understand fully and respond to the joint Brazil - China initiatives I learned about last week. It’s way bigger than soybeans.
Share in this New Humanism channel almost two decades of writing and countless images and fashion stories about Brazilian and Chinese creatives, artists, models, places, ancient history and the 21st century world.
It also becomes a story about myself — the global trader with a progressive conscience. I have such good stories from every corner of the world. And I understand that millions of people hate my viewpoints.
Anne has never been good about obeying rules she finds to be absurd. I’m a renegade but not a radical.
In many respects I’ve been my own worst enemy in creating Anne of Carversville in a SEO-driven world.
To give you my very best understanding of the world and its abundance of cultural riches, I’ve made a major decision to ignore SEO rules, even more than in the past with duplicate posts.
I have every confidence that AI positioning and my new international friends and supporters will pull me through the fact that I’ve double-posted some articles to make the site easier for my friends.
Send me to the stockade. SEO rules are not running Anne of Carversville.
AI search totally trumps SEO key word searches in delivering new traffic to this website.
PS: AOC is not a mobile-friendly website. I can’t change that reality right now — but there will soon be a sister site that is headline driven to make your lives a bit easier.
For now I push the Squarespace live button to learn how this post looks on an iPhone. Hope springs eternal. Sending love. ~Anne