One of my friends runs one of the largest water districts in Australia. Upon learning I went to Singapore for a business trip, he told me a funny story about the lack of concern for anything but progress in areas with large Chinese populations. He was being given a tour of the Marina Bay, which is the central bay in Singapore, by the Chinese developers leading the project. They bragged how they dredged the entire bay, reinforced the walls with concrete, and so forth. Basically, they took a natural bay that had existed for thousands of years, and enhanced it to be more stable and sterile. In noting their progress, the Chinese developers stated that they had to move the fisherman to a part of the city that was not so clean, shiny, and modern. My friend, being Western, asked them what they did with all the fish. The Chinese laughed and laughed. They thought he was joking.