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Please don't be nitpicky and say that big cities will never feel like suburban Irvine. Just name some big cities that feel more like Irvine. What major cities are there around the world that feel most like Irvine? Masterplanned, sterile, efficient, family friendly, cookie cutter, green...

Asian immigrants are famous for being overachievers, the model minority. Historically, this is due to America's success in allowing even the poorest of immigrants, from China and Japan to work hard and achieve success. But nowadays, as Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. rival the U.S. in...

Though Irvine has a large Chinese population, it is hardly Chinese culturally. One can hardly get around in only Mandarin. The Sam Woo's at Culver Plaza features a Roman-style colonnade. And while any Chinese schoolchild in Irvine can play the violin or the piano, hardly any can play the erhu or...

Strictly speaking, feminism means equal rights for men and women, NOT aggressive women trying to subvert society. So feminism could just be encouraging women to adopt male gender roles/ venture into male-dominated professions. Well known it is that STEM majors are male-dominated. Well known it...

While Irvine's official Asian population is 43% of the city (2012), many citizens give inflated figures, i.e. that 98% are Asian. Yet whites are still the majority. Will this always be the case? What is the highest proportion the Asian population will reach? It also seems like recently whites...

In case if you thought Irvine was the only bubble in the world, check out Singapore. It is safe, imacculately clean, affluent, a thriving commercial/financial center, with a competitive educational system, master-planned, is famed for its diversity and has a lot of Asians, and is lushly...