［reflection on being a foreigner/laowai in beijing - still borrowing the rambling of that writer whose name I forgot]
17 November 1984
Why are foreigners so relentlessly solvent and so emotionally bankrupt, so selfish, so useless, so venal and backward, so ignorant and incurious? I know, of course, they are not all like this, and the ones who are simply helpless dumb animals in a foreign country at bottom. We are the scum of the earth, we 'travellers', we are an oily film, ever present and ever shallow.
[revisiting beijing, 26 june to 14 july 2006]
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