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In cultural terms, most middle aged urban parents are people who until they were in their 30's never made a private phone call or rode in a car. For the main phones were
still shared neighborhood ones and the main urban vehicle; still bicycles and buses, as recently as the mid 1980's which was the first time I lived in China. And yet these people
have children who have always had mobile phones and think nothing of hailing cabs, at least those living in cities. This generation gap influences an enormous number of things, from
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