A Singapore cabbie who's spent a significant amount of time in a
western country? That's not very common, is it?
Oh, and as for the location of Minnesota:

wah..near Canada, nice...so near the Grand Canyon?
oh yah, the cab driver is half erasian half indian, very good
command of english, and best, he was wearing black tshirt with cool
strips short and slippers while driving his cab... he even talk
"hey, mate, where u want to go" when i got up the cab.. hahaa.