Wednesday, November 12, 2008

A Percent of Perspective

I recently read online at this website, a nice little community for Wuxi expats, that according to government statistics there are 3500 "laowai" or foreigners in our fair city.

I guess that sounds like a lot, until you consider that Wuxi has 5,000,000 residents in total.

So in other words we laowai, of our white, black, and brown complexions and round eyes, represent .0007 % of the population. That explains a lot.

1 comment:

Marcus and Courtney said...

Most of those foreigners are actually Korean and Japanese too fyi - so us 'whitey's' cant tell the difference anyway.

Marcus