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    Quote Originally Posted by Triggerboy:
    I have nothing up my butt, the same I'm afraid can't be said about you. I am simply trying to set the record straight for all you westerners. Everytime you say HK or China is so terrible or bad. Think twice whether that is really true.
    Wow Triggerboy, looking at your other posts you sure are on a BLAME THE WEST crusade. You blame everything on the WEST, dont people in HK or China have a Brain, can they not make their own minds ups, is the TV showing Western stuff brain washing the locals.

    you will be glad to know you are the 1st person to grace my ignore list ya muppet.
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    Triggerboy, (assuming I/we was/were in Singapore) how is social order in Singapore affected by my personal freedom to search for information on or reading a magazine article on breast cancer?


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    Singapore is doing alot better in those areas than the West.
    Exactly. Which is why it must be held to a higher standard than China, which is what, a decade or two into its transformation from a paddy field economy to its current status.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triggerboy:
    I have nothing up my butt
    I beg to differ on this point.....

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    Triggerboy reminds me of an incident I heard about recently amongst some of my HK foreign correspondent friends.

    And I am going into bat for our Mainland cousins during this particular occasion.

    While in Croatia, at a restaurant that was famed for it's fish dishes, there were a group of journalists that were from Hong Kong & the Mainland.

    The Hong Kong Chinese journalist whith arms folded got really angry that in her opinion the way in which the fish was cooked was all wrong ( because it wasn't steamed, didn't have hot oil poured all over it etc ) while she totally ignored that the fish in question was a (cold) fresh water variety, and that cooking it in butter with a simple squeeze of lemon juice and a small amount of salt and pepper was all that was needed. She wanted no part in that, refused to even taste it and demanded to see the cook, who was a very large, muscular, Croatian who told her in no uncertain terms ( in very clear concise English ), that he didn't give a shit how they cooked fish back in Hong Kong, to look around how busy his restaurant was, that people from all over made an effort to visit his well established restaurant and if she didn't like it, she could fuck off back to Hong Kong lol. Which generated a group cheer from the other journalists who agreed with the cook..! hahahahahaha

    The irony was that the mainland and HK ( British ) journalists that were present at the time, all enjoyed a pleasant meal and wrote about their positive experience in their respective travel articles They were all enthusiastic about trying something new and different. The HK girl like many Hongkies ( she isn't alone ) just refused to eat something that wasn't prepared the way they do it here in the HKG!

    I've met a few mainlanders back in Aus, France and other parts of Europe etc, and they are definitely a lot more adventurous when it comes to experiencing outside cultures than their Hong Kong counterparts.

    Believe it, or not ;0)

    Further adding...

    If you have ever watched a HK travel/food show, where the tv presenters do nothing but bitch and moan about their meal in Paris ( lets say for for example ) how it could be improved by removing/adding some ingredients to suit their inflexible palates, you would know what I mean...


    Anyway, I thought it was quite interesting, but stereotypically ( on average ) quite true, from what I have seen in Paris, Melbourne and also having lived in Shenzhen & Beijing, prior to settling in Hong Kong .

    The mainland Chinese aren't as bad as a lot of you make them out to be, in my experienced opinion.

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    I think we have our very own hk 50 cents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Exactly. Which is why it must be held to a higher standard than China, which is what, a decade or two into its transformation from a paddy field economy to its current status.
    Which is why the mainland isn't ready for democracy and why censorship is necessary there. If there was democracy, China would turn into "India". A chaotic nation of cow worshippers (no offence meant against Hindus here).

    As for Singapore, I suppose there is a slight room for more freedom (and less censorship), but the government must always be ready to pull on the leash lest things get out of hand.

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    We not only need a 'Dislike' button. We also need a 'Laugh at stupidity of this poster' button.

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    Moving, if you spent less time belittleing me and more time to actually ponder my argument, I think our exchange will be alot more fruitful.

    Skyhook, how can you use an isolated incident about a particular bitch from Hong Kong to generalize Hong Kong people as a whole? When I criticize the West, I back it up with my argument.

    Cheepo, how about "laught at yourself" button?

    Anyway, Singapore has a minute room to reduce censorship, but just minute.

    Last edited by Triggerboy; 31-05-2013 at 02:09 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triggerboy:

    Skyhook, how can you use an isolated incident about a particular bitch from Hong Kong to generalize Hong Kong people as a whole? When I criticize the West, I back it up with my argument.
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    Quiet easily actually, because it isn't an isolated case, it happens ALL the time...

    Basing it on living in HK for a 3rd of my life, there are countless situations I've observed over my time here, and the fact that I am married to a HK local of Shanghainese descent. I can see very clear distinctions as to how my wifes family approach life, and the less flexible Hongkies in regard to certain things, food being one of the more inflexible traits.

    Wasn't there a Hong Kong sporting team that blamed their poor sporting performance because they couldn't get HK style rice while they were in Europe to compete...I seem to remember reading something about that.

    Silly shit when you think about it and it just substantiates what I am talking about. When it comes to foreign food, Hongkies ARE NOT all that open minded.

    I can think of countless cases back in Aus amongst my Chinese friends in Melbourne, the AUSBC's were no different to me in what they were happy to eat, drink and socialise within a pluralist society.

    Then there were the HK Chinese uni students, who only ate together, studied together, totally ignorant of anybody else, who only ate noodles and rice dishes. The mainland students that we knew, were quite happy to hang out with us and ate what we ate. They were actually huge fun and really let their hair down.

    So, I am quite familiar with the varying cultural differences of HK Chinese and their mainland Chinese counterparts.
    Last edited by Skyhook; 31-05-2013 at 02:44 PM.