The law of the marketplace visibly dominates places such as Egido Street, which teems with horn-blowing cars and independent pedicab drivers calling out to potential fares.
Neighbouring Tibet has long been roiled by ethnic tension, too, but rarely has it witnessed the kind of violence that has troubled Xinjiang: a low-level insurgency involving ethnic Uighurs whose Muslim faith and Central Asian culture and language set them apart from the Han Chinese who dominate places like 38th Regiment.
It now has about a hundred related Internet sites, but it has yet to recapture the dominate place it once had in the culture.
Mr. Musharraf may seem an unlikely adviser to the mayor of a Southern town where crickets chirp shrilly and the leafy streets are dominated by places pledging to fix your truck.
"Yes, of course, it's dominated in places by the EDM lot and commercial end of it," Sasha confesses.
Joseph Main, the boss of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, is a former union official and a far cry from the industry enablers who dominated the place under the Bush administration.
Cowboy hats and ranch-themed trinkets dominated the place, mini-license plates with kids' names on them, but I headed straight to the small book section as a heat-stroked nomad would to an oasis.
There's also the question of the huge bar in the restaurant that dominated the place before I knocked it down (yep, that's right, please don't say the one thing you'd want is a huge, oversized bar).
While Swedes and Brits dominated the place, there was a lot of support for the lesser represented nations too.
In the heartland states, incomes rose moderately as the aging baby boomers who dominate those places moved into their high-earning years.
Not just because he is black but because he is British, a nationality that, these days, tends to dominate managerial places in the Premier League's survival zone, not among any of the would-be champions.
