According to regular reader of Clare Street, Catherine Yeoh, this is the most striking and enlightening photograph I have ever shown in this blog. It was taken in the morning of 10 October just outside my hostel at the old campus of the Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou.
The two young friends are China's foreign students from Africa.

Chinese language study in Africa increasingly popular
http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/188317.htm

Christmas in Guangdong
http://www.newsgd.com/specials/christmas05

Indian restaurants in Guangzhou
http://www.indiandinner.com/

Great Mosque of Guangzhou a.k.a Huaisheng Mosque
http://archnet.org/library/images/thumbnails.tcl?location_id=11001

(Some) Muslim restaurants in Guangzhou
http://www.islamichina.com/page/halalgd.htm

China as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious nation
http://english.gov.cn/about/religion.htm

China's ethnic minorities
http://english.people.com.cn/data/minorities/ethnic_minorities.html

Ethnic minorities in China
http://www.china.org.cn/e-groups/shaoshu