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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33299)	4/18/2008 1:45:56 AM
From: Rolla Coasta	Respond to of 219858

The English and Japanese invented polite That's too a general statement you perhaps experience in modern days. I believe the people in the past decade, especially in the old generations were more polite than we are. The modern people of today when facing globalization and realize their livelihood being threatened by competition, politeness of people are gone. But in the good old days, people tended to welcome foreigners. They were too naive. Today, we study and grow up as more learned person, but that doesn't mean we are civilized in the way we behave and talk, because the competition is just immense in the society. Anyone can blame the immigrants for the crimes. But we people have been migrating from one place to another to search for more space and rich resources to live for hundreds of years. Before 1997, HK is an unknown place to much of the world. Very few foreigners, but mostly maid servants from Philippine and already settled english politicians, priests, teachers etc. After China entering WTO to access more credit to expand in 2000, HK only began to have more foreign immigrants actually settled and make new transitions in life. TJ is one example. They know HK is the gateway to China, so the city have people from diverse culture, but to my surprise, no conflict of foreign cultures being brought to the city, as Islam and Christianity seem to co-exist in the same district without issue. From time to time, we hear some discrimination from minority southern asians, but not as serious as the incident in indonesia where the uncivilized local tribes and warlords blame the chinese merchants to bring capitalism to the society. Riots broke out and widespread looting actually brought down their own country. They have their own protectionism to foreign immigrants who bring capitals and jobs to villages. Similar situation for the Japanese who brought capitalism to Peru, only to meet riots and revolt. As a result, the Peru people have never been the same and remain poorer. Maybe Brazilians would one day help them. Canada was a special case and they had been less developed before the 80s. After that, the mass exodus from hk capitals began to take shape because of the rule handover confidence issue and the hk rich folks poured a lot money in west Canada. Some Canadian locals complained a lot and asked hk people where their rich money was coming from. Vast protest broke out and public hearing to discuss the negative effect of immigration was so common. In fact, the money injection had brought some people, especially the renters, into poorer situation. But the Canadian government apparently ignored them. Those who had local real estate would become much more richer. Those did not would wind up in the street as in Vancouver. Mac