On 5/29/2013 11:39 PM, ViLco wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>
>> The Chinese came to Hawaii during the late 1800s to work in the sugar
>> cane plantations. Most of them were single men and most of them would
>> take on Hawaiian women as wives. It was a case of the lowest class
>> joining the lowest class and yet today, the Chinese-Hawaiians are the
>> richest social class in Hawaii. I rent my office space a Chinese guy
>> that owns most of our little town.
>
> That also happened in other areas in the Pacific, Indian Ocean and
> south-east Asia in general, with the chinese quickly becoming the richest
> among the population and thus getting hated by many. Some years ago I read
> about a violent anti-chinese upholding in a city in Thailand, it said it
> also happened in a long list of other places. Sorry for them
>

You're right about that. I wonder why the Chinese like to emigrate so
much. Maybe there's so many of them that even a small percentage of
their population is a huge number. There were laws in place to stem the
flow of Chinese in Hawaii - my guess is that this was/is the case in
many countries.