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“It’s like all the Mexicans in NYC just stopped working one day.”

By David Xia | Published: July 20, 2009
Imagine every Sunday all the Mexicans in NYC with low-skilled jobs stop working, go to Wall Street or Times Square, and just throw one big street party.

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Massive, Harmonious Madness

By David Xia | Published: June 23, 2009
A day spent experiencing HK's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is enough to put any urban-dwelling American to shame.

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Megamalls and Clumsy Change

By David Xia | Published: June 22, 2009

When I left NYC there was no evidence that the Sun exists. When I landed in HK, there was still none. The first ten days of my stay were filled with cumulonimbus clouds and grape-sized rain droplets. Stepping outside is like entering a sauna or breathing with a hot wet rag smothering your face. The CEOs here are taking three to four showers a day to gain short-lived relief from all the humidity-induced stickiness. Some brief musings about HK:

  1. HK (and China for that matter) is not ethnically diverse compared to NYC. The city’s 95% Chinese.
  2. There are so many mega-malls that look exactly alike. Armies of cleaning staff ensure they are all freakishly clean.

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