Word: cosmopolitan
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...expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than as its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its population is taught that everything good is foreign. The cosmopolitan city glamorized in your report is a city of cultural orphans brainwashed into becoming submissive to myriad foreign cultures that have been filtered through a colonial sieve. Pierce Lam, Hong Kong Gates...
...expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its population is taught that everything good is foreign. The cosmopolitan city glamorized in your report is a city of cultural orphans brainwashed into becoming submissive to myriad foreign cultures that have been filtered through a colonial sieve. Pierce Lam, HONG KONG
...their creativity to get ahead. Since 2003, when China allowed growing numbers of mainland tourists to visit here and goose us out of our post-SARS stagnation, we have grown increasingly dependent on handouts from the mainland. We are becoming more like China, and less like the cosmopolitan, international city we once were. The risk is that we lose our entrepreneurial zeal and become wholly dependent on the mainland's economy...
...York City, Paris and London followed different models to become cosmopolitan cities. Singapore doesn't have the throbbing cultural and art ethos that continues to lure immigrants to New York City; the creative, warm and human landscape that is Paris; or the universal language and literature of London. Perhaps the Los Angeles model of rich settlers and the Las Vegas model of transient spenders have inspired Singapore more than the three big world cities Lee mentioned. I hope that museums, creative ambiance and Old World charm are somewhere on the agenda. Nevertheless the challenge is huge, especially considering the ambitious...
...Cloud was arrogant in suggesting that gays are a huge force behind a better, friendlier and more cosmopolitan Dallas. What was wrong with it before? A city's renaissance or rise is about the contributions that all its residents make, not just the work of a select few. Our country strives to minimize differences between people, but Cloud seems to want to polarize us. Tim de Valroger, HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY...