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To: stockman_scott who wrote (39392)	7/25/2001 9:24:54 PM
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I am back. A 13 hour flight is long. Mt. McKinley is amazing - never saw it before. Beijing is amazing. Major impressions: Dirtiest air I have ever seen. In 8 days there we could only see our shadow twice. (My son tells me they can clean it in two days by shutting down all the factories as they did before the Olympic Committee visited.) The people are warm and friendly and eager to practice their English. They were not xenophobic as I expected. There are next to no overt signs of communism. (That said, people to not act out very much like they do in the U.S.) Very crowded. One child families lead to more spoiled children, who nevertheless behave better than American children (see above about public behavior). It is illegal to get married before you are 25 and to have a child before you are 30. (I may be off a year or so on this.) They really really like Americans. To the same extent that every product we pick up in the U.S. says "Made in China," every product in China has an American logo on it, even if it is grossly misspelled. There is much more diversity that I expected. Broad ranges of wealth (or lack thereof), though the middle class is quite huge. Construction works who are typically immigrants from other parts of China live on the job site in conditions that are pitiful. Hand labor is the norm, but there are cranes on steamrollers everywhere. Did I say it was very crowded? Driving is creative - they honk to say "look out for me?" and never look before changing lanes and yet we never saw one accident. Bicycles are very funky and everywhere. To be a cab driver in Beijing, you have to be born in Beijing. They always knew how to get where they were going. It was fun and a complete eye-opener. I like it better here.

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