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To: RealMuLan who wrote (44284)	1/5/2004 8:47:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Yiwu, I am mindful of how harsh life has been in China thanks to the silly political system forced on people by Mao and subsequent maniacs, so worrying about air pollution, which isn't much worse than London's when I've lived there, is a bit prissy. But it obviously rates highly enough in consciousness here to require buses to all be converting rapidly to CNG. If leadership is similar to that of Lee Kwan Yew, China could copy Singapore and do well. To see a guy hoik in a really nice department store, food court, a big gob of phlegm, right there in the middle of a nice clean floor, is disgusting. Nobody bats an eye. He didn't get arrested. Yechhh.... I'm not suggesting you just fled pollution. There are lots of reasons to go places, many of them financial. I don't need to do research on immigration to know that not all immigration is calculated. We emigrated to Canada decades ago, from England, on impulse when a company offered me a job. The other impulsive choice would have taken us to Saudi Arabia and life would have gone on a totally different route. I doubt many are going to the USA to take part in El Segundo drive-bys. They go for the good stuff. Fleeing bad stuff is part of a complex motivational equation. That's what the refugees arriving in NZ tell us anyway. They [Moslem refugees] aren't just in NZ for jihad and the great welfare system [better houses than their warlords back home have, free food, SkyTV, carpets, hot showers, free doctors, dentists, clothes, etc, etc etc... it's great living on The State]. Nor to convert to Christianity or sensible ideology. I'm sure you can return if you want to. But I dare say the cash flow is great where you are, so joining the throngs back in China trying to con tourists isn't all that attractive. Mqurice