aquauant
Junior Member
1. first I said know-how. Only you somehow see it as kow-tow. Your Freudian slip maybe.
2. mainland tourism started in the 80s. It was tour-group first. It is anything but recent. You really need to check your facts.
3. Of course, every group of people have some bad apples. Like your king of democracy invaded iraqi under false pretense. Your freedom-loving and democratic countryman stab muslim cab driver and damage their fellow countrymen's mosques for pure hatred. But I am not like you, thinking a few incidents by some represent the whole. To arrive to your level of conclusion requires a serious dose of prejudice.
4. I am not like you. I am not born in the king of democracy. I do not have the best opportunity to learn english. My school in guangzhou city provided little english instruction. Do you understand chinese character? I can write clearer and better in Chinese, which is my mother-tongue.
5. I am glad you are not easily insulted.
6. As the bridge, it is a good laugh. It was delayed and delayed because it was a bridge to nowhere. At this time, there are transports like fast ferry and mainland highway network to connect the three places. The bridge is not cost-effective. It will need to charge over HK$200 and it wont break even in foreseeable future. It will divert traffic from mainland highway network to the bridge. It actually put on a negative economic impact on the towns between Shenzhen and Zhuhai. The people can utilize the bridge are the lorry drivers and tour buses (which also means more "forced purchases"). Few locals from 3 places have private cars. As I said, the tourists from mainland come individually mostly. They wont get the benefit. The bridge was eventually given a go-ahead for part of stimuli against recession. At this moment, we have numerous crossing between Shenzhen and HK. The last thing we want to is close the border. In fact, Shenzhen and HK have talks to integrate fully to the extent we can travel and work without custom and border. For a start, our train fare card between the two cities are interchangeable now. We are building superfast train rail directly connect to the national railway network. Most HKers see this as progress. Of course, you may say some dont like it. As in many places, you will find someone disagreeing. Some wants to go back to the past and some still hold onto the belief of the past and cannot move forward to new things and events. But they dont represent the whole.
7. I dont know why you keeping saying things that you have no basis of. You keep you saying you heard this and that. Can you see with your eyes? Tell me your misconceptions and I will do my best to clarify for you.
8. We always fight for better representation and freedom of speech. We must have less corruption and better legal system. This is also many chinese mainlanders are fighting for. Are you saying asking for better representation is un-chinese? Could you tell in what incident you see those chinese protesting for a just society are anti-chinese? Didnt you say you are born in the King of democracy? Maybe you are born there but do not share your countrymen's value of democracy.
8. where you see segregation, we chinese see unity. where you see discrimination, we chinese see resolution and understanding. where you see the past as present, we chinese see the future as present. It is sad that you keep hoping for a failed belief of infighting between chinese and refuse to accept Chinese as we are now, unified and confident. I guess you are westerner. You want to believe in this myth. You want to see us fighting between ourselves. You want us to fail. You are whiter than I thought.
I may be not knowing too well into the technicalities of swat, policemen, special ops etc. but after reading some of the articles with rgd to this , it makes me very much to write this.
