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To: Slagle who wrote (68398)	9/5/2005 1:46:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Slag, there was at least one more melanin-deficient man in China throughout and NOT in prison. Jay Chen who paddles in this very stream has a daughter with a rhyming name Ai Li, aka Coconut, which rhymes with Rewi Alley, who Google can tell you about. I recall he even had Rewi in mind when they were doing the daughter-naming. His family had something to do with Rewi, back in the day. He was a Kiwi bloke who went there in the early 20th century and I have in my store of stuff a booklet signed by him in the 1970s [which my parents, fan-club members of China, and members of the China Society in NZ got when visiting China during the 1970s]. Six degrees of separation and all that. Your point is correct though, that there were not a lot of "English" left in China or India after their revolutions. But I think it was more that the Euros fled, rather than that the locals would have gaoled them all, killed them, or made their lives all that miserable. But the Euros would probably have had their assets confiscated, which is some disincentive to normal people to remain in any particular place. If China or India were to become libertarian in their politics, I think you would find a swarm of Euros wanting to move there with their assets. That's not likely though. Nowhere on Earth is there a libertarian place, including the "free", giggle, snigger, USA. Though the libertarians were planning a move on New Hampshire [I should check on how that's going]. Mqurice

To: Slagle who wrote (68398)	9/5/2005 1:00:54 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Slagle, You really have your head stuck in the sand. Stay with your persecution complex. It is proven that your prejudice overrules all facts. I know relatives who had British teachers in their schools and colleges all the way to late 1950s. Similarly, relatives who worked in British Companies (tea companies, liquor companies, etc. talk about how their top managers were British. Anyway here is an account that I found which gives a view of life in India for the British pre- and post-independence. You will notice how accomodating the indians were to the British. Some relevant excerpts: lib.lsu.edu >In South India, you can still see older, poorer British who have retired at the Hill Stations--they are Aalmost unaware that independence happened in 1947;> >Sporting life was good in country clubs in Calcutta; there was a long waiting list to get into them and (embarrassingly) most clubs did not admit Indians until after independence; Indians took it quite well, instead of saying, Ayou know what you can do with your club!> >after independence, people said there were more Europeans in India than in pre-independence, but that began to die out in the late 1950s and 60s; reasons for decline of Europeans: A) high taxation, B) nationals should do the job if possible, C) many foreign companies sold out anyway; at one stage, his company had over 200 British people, but declined to 50 by the time he left> -Arun >Arun Re: "Englishmen" Thank you for helping me make my point. There WERE English families that had been there for generations, building countryhouses and estates that are still there today. In all the vast expanse of India there is not even one single reigon, even a single community of Englishmen remaining after all those many generations. The reason is that they weren't wanted there and they wouldn't have been safe there after independence.>