I could never live in Datong it looked so run down and polluted. I cannot believe that people’s houses are being demolished while they are still living in it. I know Mayor Geng Yangbo, wants to reform city and bring more people, but it does not seem like relocating and evicting people that have been living in the same place for 30 years  is the way to go. Especially when families are being put on 3 year long waiting lists, but don’t have housing in the mean time. I hate how forced demolition is illegal and yet they are still kicking people out of their homes and evicting them. I liked the quote from the resident  of Datong that said, “Let the Rich guys live, We are not living “. It seems absurd that people love the same mayor that  is kicking everyone out of their homes so much. I know he goes around signing papers giving people whatever they want, but considering he is not the one that actually deals with the relocating, people being beating, or peoples  houses being demolished while in it, it appears that these would turn into empty promises. And the mayor from the other side feels like people aren’t doing their jobs and he is ready to fire anyone.

I know Geng Yangbo wants to be better then the U.S. and that he wants a cultural renaissance, but I feel like this is not the way to do it. It seems like it would  be hard to appreciate a cultural revolution that is tainted by so much corruption and discontent throughout all the common people.

Instead of racial discrimination, like back in the day in the U.S. they have class discrimination. So the people want their schools to be segregated. The Urban people don’t want all the farmers and their children that are moving to go to the same school. I don’t understand what is so different about the up bringing of an urban vs. farmer child that would make it so they would need separate schools, but that is how they felt.