Jottings from the Granite Studio

Via ESWN, James Fallows is blogging from China this week and post #1 involves that old expat grumble of “public manners.”
You can work up all sorts of historical or anthropological explanations behind every-man-for-himself behavior. It’s a survival imperative when there are too many people for too few resources. It’s an effect of big, anonymous city [...]

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