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Gwaine,

Thank you.

I think it is a really great thing --economically. China seems ready and willing to help 3rd world countries get on their feet.

I am some what worried because in China -- African students are some what segregated and under threat because of the fear that they are infecting Chinese people with Aids. But since even Libya in Africa restricts Black Africans from entering their country because of the fear of Aids. I am not so sure we can blame the Chinese for doing it there.

If You Mistakenly Got Paid By Your Employer Twice

This thread was motivated by a recent message I got.

Just thought I'd share this with you , I got paid twice by my employer , a sum of £436+ times 2 , Even though I needed money badly, I rang my employer and told him about the payment error, he asked me to please rip the cheque , It was hard to report this error and rip a cheque of such a huge sum of money but I am glad I did what God would have wanted me to do, and ma employer would never forget me for this honest move I made , morale of the story: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY , No matter what condition you are, please always try to be honest. Thanx for reading, just sharing ma today's experience with you. Engineer Bola

Would you be this honest? I think I would be, I would be scared that it was coming back later on me.

Seeker,

Now that we have established that the Hong Kong people lived in an oppressive society and are only now trying to recover their mind and stop their people from visible forms of subservience to the british like prostitution.

And we did not even talk about the suicide rate being one of the world's highest or that the Hong Kong people don't have enough babies to repopulate themselves (one thing you have to sacrifice to make it in this world is babies and family).

Now let us even look at the economy of Hong Kong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Hong_Kong

First, the Hong Kong dollar is worth less than the South African dollar.

Exchange rates: Hong Kong dollars per US dollar - 7.759 (April 2006)

Notice that Kazey brought up Hong Kong being the 13th largest banking industry. (I'll talk more about this idea later -- bring up how rich people hide their money from their governments in these backwater countries -- artifically pumping up the economy of these countries. When we get to Antiqua & barbados)

Yet look at the amount of people who work in this industry: financing, insurance, and real estate 13%

My point about this, is one should not be mislead about banking statistics to believe that this means that the Hong Kong people share equally in this 'banking benefit'.

In fact this is the truth:

The majority of Hong Kong people work in industry's getting the British the cheap goods they have set Hong Kong up to provide or getting the luggage of rich people as they come for a visit to see about the banking assets they are hiding in Hong Kong.

wholesale and retail trade, restaurants, and hotels 31%

Hong Kong has lots of pretty tall buildings and the rich elite from Europe and America like to bank there because it is virtually free for them (their a small and crowded little city on mostly hills, so they are forced to grow up rather than out) but let us not assume that means the people should be thanking the British for enslaving them.

Seeker,

Do not be so quick to agree that Kazey has shown a successful colony of the British in Hong Kong.

Kazey is showing dollar amounts, she is not showing what the Hong Kong people think.

As a colonized Asian people, Hong Kongers have been assigned to live in the mythical and oppressive world as represented by The World of Susie Wong and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and such functioning but distorted perceptions that Hong Kong, the Pearl of the Orient, nicknamed Fragrant Port, is where East meets West, and that Hong Kong is bilingual. For the natives, negotiating this kind of cultural schizophrenia has necessitated the donning of two simultaneous masks. Indeed, Hong Kong’s pea blossom icon identified on the global level as an orchid (see Newt Gingrich’s perception of the relationship between China and Hong Kong as a gorilla holding an orchid in its hand) is not an orchid at all. It is a pea tree, Bauhinia blakeana Dunn (Caesalpiniaceae), not a natural species, but appropriately, a sterile hothouse hybrid named after a former governor.

The disappearance of the British icons and their instantaneous substitutions are not new to Hong Kong. Hong Kongers have always worn two faces simultaneously, [/b]one in public for the public, and the other also public but waiting for the next public; [b]one is presented to the British colonizers and their various representations, and the other to relatives and proven friends. During the Korean War and much of the 1950s Cold War, for example, the necessity for the public-public face almost spelled the demise of the next-public face, as the Chinese and Kuomintang sent down competing assassination squads in an attempt to reverse the brain drain. The British rulers refereed from the sidelines to minimize the drain on Hong Kong’s blood bank and maintain local stability by arresting and detaining just about every known political activist without trial, sometimes on the whimsical evidence of reading the wrong newspaper in public.

Currently there is a growing billion-dollar industry focusing on historical preservation. It is linked to Hong Kong’s attempt to re-take its identity by turning to its past, by looking at its landmark buildings, and by looking at old photographs to construct a visual narrative of its own history. But the selectivity inherent in preservation is not memory, and if memory plays any significant part in the construction of history, preservation is then not history either, particularly not in the hands of the last-colonialists or post-colonialists. They are more interested in cultivating (read investment) artifacts such as authentic native furniture, paintings, even costumes, than they are in the total human experience including the pain and suffering that sometimes accumulates in shit. Their interest in preservation stems in part from their effort to alleviate their guilt, and in part from re-colonization as cultural piracy—except now they have to cash up—and in part from an honest attempt to see what they’ve ignored for nearly 200 years. The restoration of Kowloon’s Walled City, now devoid of drugs, prostitution, and other forms of human misery, has elevated it to the most sophisticated expression of kitsch, the theme park.

** Do notice that now that the British are gone, Hong Kong is getting rid of the drugs and prostitution and other forms of human misery.

Visible on Sundays and public holidays is an ironic public statement against this newest variation of late capitalism that is Hong Kong, this gargantuan economic imbalance in which a very few are making fortunes from other people’s misery.

**Do notice that their economy is considered by them to be one where a few make fortunes at the expense of the other people in misery.

We are in a topic now, where the Colonizers of Nigeria, propped themselves and what they did for Nigeria up.

As this article shows, that is the same kind of false hype about Hong Kong that has been going on.