On 5/29/2013 1:02 PM, Christopher Helms wrote:
>
> Damn, the Chinese are learning the nuts and bolts of capitalism in a
> hurry, aren't they?
>

The Chinese know their way around a buck although I suppose that it's
more comforting for us to believe that they are merely some goofy
looking people that talk funny.

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.

My first job was working for a Chinese family that had a print shop.
They also owned the most famous Chinese restaurant in this state. They
dressed like poor folk and drove early 70s Subarus. It was not a pretty
sight. You might believe that these people are unsophisticated hicks all
right - my guess is that would suit them just fine. I prefer not to though.

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
--
"Un pasto senza vino e' come un giorno senza sole"
Anthelme Brillat Savarin

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.

"ViLco" > wrote in message
...
> 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
> --

the politically correct version, today, is to envy (and worse) the
successful, regardless of their race or ethnicity.

Pico Rico wrote:

>> 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 --

> the politically correct version, today, is to envy (and worse) the
> successful, regardless of their race or ethnicity.

True, sadly true
--
"Un pasto senza vino e' come un giorno senza sole"
Anthelme Brillat Savarin