Beijing
is a fascinating place, a friend of mine who lives there told me today. I am
sure it is. But if you do not speak Mandarin, as it is his case, you lose most
of it. You live just in the margins of life as it happens in that big city. And
you feel very small, just an ethnically minuscule dot in a society that has
very little respect for Westerners. And you also live in an illusory world, far
disconnected from a society that is profoundly different and extremely
materialistic.
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