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One of my Seattle coworkers was one of the specific people who I was thinking of when writing the above comment, actually. I think it's less common now due to
by txcwpalpha 7y ago
One of my Seattle coworkers was one of the specific people who I was thinking of when writing the above comment, actually.
I think it's less common now due to stuff like pictures of Marina Bay Sands going viral over the past several years, as well as movies like Crazy Rich Asians "educating" people that Singapore is a modern city. But around ~2010, not so much.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoI’m still not seeing it. A lot of my generations introduction to Singapore was via articles like wired’s Disney Land with the Death Penalty (still banned in Singapore to this very day). The Singapore being apart of China is even weirder for someone who knew nothing about Singapore (why would they even know it was populated by mostly ethnic Chinese?).
- txcwpalpha 7y agoYou're citing a piece of literature that famously contrasts Kowloon Walled City [1] as preferable to Singapore, and yet you are confused why people are misinformed and uneducated about it? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoI didn’t say the article had problems, but Singapore lacking electricity wasn’t one of them.
- pault 7y agoI think you are making the classic nerd mistake of assuming the average person has done as much self educating as you have.