For the election results on our Wednesday morning, almost all of the Americans in my "neighborhood" gathered at an American-run cafe to watch the coverage. There had to be at least 200 of us, and not a single McCain fan in the crowd.
After he won, we went into the street and were cheering and waving signs, etc, and all the Chinese people where baffled. A few asked, "what's going on?" "what are you so happy about?" and when we replied that Obama had won, etc etc, they gave us lackluster, oh, ok's. I guess you can't expect people who have never had a single experience in a participatory governance system of any type on any scale to really understand why this is such an important event.
A few photos of us celebrating.
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