visits - Patrick at the Racquet Club

Patrick Delaney has set up shop at the Shanghai Racquet Club and sounds a bit dislocated.
homoLudens:: "I feel a bit like Peggy Ashcroft's character in the Jewel and the Crown series: pleased enough by human courtesy, but puzzled by the deference that proximity to wealth incurs. This sort of expat opulence, the sheer creature comfort of it, is not China, can never be China, and yet all of China and the world would want to live in this sort of place. It invites its undeserving beneficiaries to a a subtle sense of superiority. White businessman (German, I think. Maybe Dutch? Naw - couldn't have been Dutch, right?) got nasty with line cutting at the passport check in queue. 'We're entitled!' I sense a softer dismissiveness in the treatment of 'clubhouse' waiters. "
They are most likely Dutch, Patrick, since this is a loss-making project of the Dutch ING-bank.. Most of the inhabitants are teachers at the school and expat managers of the bank. Guess you have seen a Dutch manager in action. You must feel at home, though.