what? are you a spy?
then figure out by yourself man.

too many, that is for sure

I am American and have only met 2 others in the two years I have lived here. The rest are Australian or European.

There are not enough that is for certain.

Zero because I don't feel a strange need to surround myself with expats to feel secure in a strange land? Actually I live far away from the expat community among my Chinese friends, eating Chinese food, buying Chinese goods ... not in an insular world trying to maintain a Western lifestyle in an Eastern country. I'm also a little too old to be running around in a drunken haze all weekend with the expat college crowd.

As I said, most foreigners I meet are from Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

Going from the make up of my school (international school), I would say that American's make up 10 to 20% of the total expat population here. (talking about the working community-not students)

I would also say that without doubt they are the most represented Western group here.

Most recent The Beijinger reader breakdown:

31% North America
24% Europe
23% China
5% Central/South America
4% Australia/New Zealand
3% Southeast Asia
3% Africa
6% Other

Presuming a North American split of 80% American/20% Canadian/Mexican, that means about 25% of our readers are American

We print 44,000 copies and they are all gone by the end of the month

so that means at least 10,000 Americans pick up the mag each month

and there are a lot of people who don't pick up the mag

so I'd say 10,000 is a minimum

Still not enough.

Enough for what? teaching ppl how to speak English American? getting screwed by walking skeleton amercian wannabe teen chinese gals? taking over the country n' free all the innocent netizens??

ps u got my vote on the last issue

LOL. u got my support.

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D.C. resident here. I know Moma is a place where a lot of foreigners live, esp. Russian speaking people. I'm also interested in finding out where the community is; I've only dealt with my alums and co-workers so far.

Americans are great, the most loved outsiders here. I have seen Chinese talk about many people but they all love the great Americans. They never mention the dirty Brits, the ugly French, the stupid Germans, or even the pussy hide behind everyone Canadians. Chinese worship one place, it is a little land called the USA! You can argue against this, you can fight the tide, you can whine and whine, the force will not be with you.