This strikes me as an incredibly important question, but I wouldn't
know how to untangle the different strands of social change in China.
Isn't that phenomenon of the younger, lower income people coming to
the big city from the farm very similar to what happened in the USA
when New York and Chicago became big, urban, prosperous, industrial
centers -- similar to what is happening now in China?
Howard Rheingold
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On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Boxu Yang wrote:
Here in Beijing, I mainly take public transportation to go
somewhere. The riders of either subway or bus are primarily younger
people or relatively low income groups. And a big portion of them
is not native Beijing born. Anyway, the income oriented
stratification is getting more and more obvious in terms of commuting.
I remembered one of the topic discussed was on "imagined privacy".
My observation is that some riders often talk loud with their
friends (co-riders) even they are not on the phone. (Of course,
this sort of thing is more common in Beijing restaurants). Indeed,
the practice of privatization of public place has never been really
challenged in Chinese culture. I wonder if this is one of the
reasons why mobile phones are diffused so rapidly in China. One
step further, for cultures that endorse a sharper line between
public space and private space, I wonder if the mobile phone may
facilitate the erosion of the social norm.
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