The Waiting Room

I read this story today in the NY Times, about the changing look of Beijing architecture. After reflecting on the article for a little while, I realized the reason it rubbed me a little bit the wrong way was because a part of it, not too important a part overall but still a piece of the writer's atmospheric build-up, was based on an assumption that was competely wrong. The whole idea was that the walled compounds that are so profligate throughout Beijing are based around the same feeilng of Fear of Poor People that gave rise to the gated communities of the United States. This is completely false. Since this had to do with China, and not just any China, but my China (Beijing), I was a little bit upset that this had occured. So I wrote a reply, my first ever reply to a newspaper article.


Not pulitzer work, I know, but still, its a start...