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What is (expat) Beijing’s ambition?

Came across this interesting fimonoculous.com post on this Paul Graham (venture capitalist, artist, techie and writer) article.

The premise is that great cities attract a certain type of person and those people combine to exert a certain message. Examples include New York: you should make more money; Cambridge (Mass.): you should be smarter; Berkeley: you should live better; Silicon Valley: you should be more powerful.

So that got me thinking about the city we live in, Beijing. Particularly, expat Beijing. What is the message?

Beijing: You should… learn more Chinese? …be more connected? …really, really stop smoking?

Propose your own message below.

Posted Jun 10th 2008 6:32p.m. by steve_lee
filed under Great Expatations

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