antiterror13
Brigadier
I thought this is a good read from a blog I read.
There is a Chinese saying “If you want to beat a dog you have to watch who the owner is”…….. 打狗也要先睇主人.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern China, once told a story about a Chinese merchant in the Dutch East Indies.
The Dutch government imposed a curfew that specifically targeted the Chinese populace there. The merchant was out visiting his friends one day, and it was only when night fell that he remembered he had forgotten his identification papers.
So the man went to a brothel, and paid a coin to a Japanese prostitute – not for her “services”, but simply to have her walk him home. He did so knowing the Dutch police would never antagonise a Japanese national.
Why did the Dutch victimise the Chinese, but not the Japanese?
Because Japan was a rising power, and China was weak.
You can be the most successful and richest merchant where you live, but if your ancestral homeland is weak, then even the lowliest prostitute will command more respect than you, simply for being from a strong country.
Hard to swallow, but it’s true. And it doesn’t matter which nationality overseas Chinese see themselves as, because in the eyes of their adopted countries, the Chinese will always be outsiders and/or inferior. Whatever you think you are, others will see you as Chinese first.
Most in China already know this to be true, but COVID just made it more explicit.
Unfortunately, many overseas Chinese still do not, or perhaps do not want to, get the point. They think that by denying their heritage, and throwing their own people and homeland under the bus, they will be more accepted by their new found tribe.
By the way, you can easily buy a US, Canadian, UK, Australia or New Zealand Citizenship, but you cannot buy a Chinese Citizenship.
Chinese is based on your heritage and roots. It took us 5,000 years and it is not for sale
Very true ..... wondering where was the event? Indonesia?
