Notes From Hong Kong: This is going to hurt if you're a Fox Newstard.

Wow.

Have run into this a couple of times already and it happens when meeting people who travel abroad for business. If you have an American accent, you are suspect. You have to clear a couple of hurdles: 1) Are you from New York? If yes, go to 2) Are you a banker? 3) Do you educate yourself by listening to Fox News?

If you answer these questions wrong, you are pegged as an imbecile.

When I first came to Hong Kong in the Nineties, if you had and American accent, people warmed to you immediately.

Don't cry.

It is what it is.