"Tchiowa" wrote in message
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> wealth. It has to do with traditions and culture. My wife is Thai and
> she also thinks Singapore is more like San Francisco than Bangkok (or
> Chiang Mai or Seoul or any other city we've been in together).
>
Ah! Now you have uncovered your source of reference. Quite convincing
indeed.
> In the Marriott on Orchard Road I think I'm in LA. In the Marriott in
Marriott is an American chain like McDonalds hot dog vendor. Your imbecility
hits all the records. Next you insist Kokka Kolla tasting quite Asian in
Bangkok.
> Bangkok I know I'm in Thailand. In the Marriott in Jakarta I know I'm
> in Indonesia. And those are far, far nicer hotels than the Singapore
> version. This has nothing to do with wealth or poverty.
>
In Singapore you are so intoxicated that you know nothing about your
whereabouts.
> In the office in Jakarta I know I'm in Indonesia. In the office in
> Pekanbaru I know I'm in Indonesia. In the office in Bangkok I know I'm
When something is built in Bangkok - let it be high-rises, roads, terminals
of many sort and whatever - the local authority dictates that the appearance
must be non-American (European) unlike in Singapore. What about Shanghai
then. It has totally lost it's Asian identity: some 3000 skysc.rs has
been built during the last 10 years giving an average pace of one erected
building a day. Is this newly born silhouette "American". And Shanghai
"sterile" and boring.
When you stroll in about any US American city you can easily recognize them
mostly European. America is European.
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