"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