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The sun is setting, for now, on a certain kind of nomad’s idyll. In Hong Kong, reabsorption into China is the issue. In Singapore, it is the pandemic and a new commitment to the nation’s “core”. Even the United Arab Emirates, facing disease and domestic unemployment, has shooed out legion expats.
he most dramatised cities in the current age of globalisation also starred in the Victorian one.
In their pomp, these cities put me in the mind of the French Foreign Legion: the homing beacon to those keen to shed an identity, the blend of harshness and openness.
If even these places succumb to the great turn inwards, the loss will be more than commercial.
But the chance to forget oneself, to disappear in plain sight, is a freedom too.
The mystery is where to find it in future.
To explain his air of liberation, then, his sense of ease, he cites culture, not law. What Dubai withholds in rights it also lacks in the informal pressures of “identity”.
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