The singer who is forced to sing a song
that they do not want to sing will never
sing with much true emotional feeling.
Still, the Western media does not give
a fully rounded picture of the complex
relationship between China and her peripheral
territories
The harsh truth of the matter is the
opening
of China benefitted Hong Kong and Taiwanese immensely in myriad ways. Some simple gratitude and acknowledgement of the largesse of the
country of China - a largesse of economic
opportunity and travel adventures
and gracious hospitality might be in
order
for the self-pitying Hong Kong citizens
who play it all ways as shrewd international
business people.
China has done a lot for them recently.
There can be no denying the historical wrongs of several decades ago:
let me be controversial and look at
some of the rights.
Hong Kong business people became hysterical
at the onset of the take-over of their
town and used this fear of socialism
to obtain Canadian citizenships en masse.
A Hong Kong employer explaining to me
why they could come to our country so
easily said, You needed our brain power. She then said it was hard for us to get work visas for Hong Kong, as You must prove you can do a job we cannot do.
Advertisements for ESL teachers in Hong
Kong newspapers brazenly state,
We prefer a British
teacher.
A base low professional salary in the
city of Hong Kong is approximately 6000
Canadian monthly. A low salary for
a female accountant is 3000.
Only an hour over the border,
a two bedroom apartment with balcony
and a courtyard with mature trees can cost as low as 40,000 dollars.
A full-time live-in cook or nanny is
100 dollars a month, and furniture and food are a quarter of the cost that they are
in Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong can blend in with other
Chinese, and not subjected to the constant
cat-calling white people may be subjected
to as objects of curiosity.
On top of all these benefits, the Hong
Kong dominate the Chinese
immigration scene in Canada, having gotten here first.
My Chinese boyfriend said
to me, They will never hire us.A Cantonese will never hire a Mandarin speaker.
They are even free to practise racial
discrimination against the Chinese arriving
frm Mainland China.
Another Chinese businessman from Beijing
told me sadly while treating
me to a wonderful lunch in Shenzhen, When we go to eat to close a business deal with them,
they will never sit at the table
with us.
For all the good things China gave to
me,
I would be happy to stand in a public
place and sing;
for the song of a country
does not belong to a particular place,
such as Beijing.
The love of a country is not based on
whether or not things are going well
or they are going badly, especially in a land thousands of years old.
