The JinQiao shopping center near where I live has a large cement expanse sweeping in front of it. It even has a nice little ramp area—a haven for burgeoning boarders. In the US, this kind of inadvertent skate-boarding haven would be complete with obvious “No Skating” signs and metal pieces hidden in the concrete just waiting to flatten any boarder who dared to ignore the NO. Security guards would constantly be wagging their finger at “those darn kids” as they did tricks and weaved through the area.
Contrast the JinQiao shopping area and China. No “NO” signs. No metal face-planting rivets. And as I walked through the glass doors of the entrance I passed a lone security guard: relaxed, arm crossed, and grinning as he watched a bunch of ex-pat kids from the near-by international school show of their skate-boarding skills.
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