Unnecessary
Yesterday's article from the SCMP has definitely raised some hackles within HK's blogging community...
Hongkie Town
Simon World
BWG
I didn't make any comment yesterday because I was actually so surprised that what is supposedly Hong Kong's leading English language paper researched, wrote and published an article that I think is so unnecessary.
Actually, in all honesty what this article is driving at is cross-race relationships ....why don't we call a spade a spade...cross-cultural could be Dutch and English...actually even more basic...Scottish-English...now there I can understand the cross-cultural differences!!!
Cross-race and cross-cultural relationships have been frowned on through out history...the early British pioneers would have had the ladies swooning and the gentlemen shaking their collective heads had cross-race relationships occured 'publicly', the founding fathers of the US started years of intolerance towards cross-race relations and the Third Reich was also not so keen on cross-race relationships...and now in 2005, do we possibly have to add Hong Kong to this wonderful list...what a group for us to be proud of joining...
What's makes me angry about the column is not so much the reasonings behind why less Chinese girls want to date Western men (each to their own)...it is the tone of voice that was used.
Cross-cultural relationships are a fact of life in most countries and cultures now...people travel more, people live overseas more often now and the world's population is now more culturally aware...this all leads to greater cross-cultural relationships....
Having been involved with two Chinese guys in the past, the relationships did not really suffer in anyway due to 'cultural differences' more as a result of basic realtionship issues that everyone suffers from...toilet seats left up, garbage not taken out,...that sort of mundane stuff...cultural differences did occur but more as a learning curve and as part of the relationship developing than anything else...the sort of stuff that Lily Wong and Stuart went through...like this.
...and I just have to say that anyone, from any race, culture or religion who cuts their toe nails (or finger nails for that matter) anywhere near me is on a very slippery slope...some things are just better done in private...behind closed doors.
Hongkie Town
Simon World
BWG
I didn't make any comment yesterday because I was actually so surprised that what is supposedly Hong Kong's leading English language paper researched, wrote and published an article that I think is so unnecessary.
Actually, in all honesty what this article is driving at is cross-race relationships ....why don't we call a spade a spade...cross-cultural could be Dutch and English...actually even more basic...Scottish-English...now there I can understand the cross-cultural differences!!!
Cross-race and cross-cultural relationships have been frowned on through out history...the early British pioneers would have had the ladies swooning and the gentlemen shaking their collective heads had cross-race relationships occured 'publicly', the founding fathers of the US started years of intolerance towards cross-race relations and the Third Reich was also not so keen on cross-race relationships...and now in 2005, do we possibly have to add Hong Kong to this wonderful list...what a group for us to be proud of joining...
What's makes me angry about the column is not so much the reasonings behind why less Chinese girls want to date Western men (each to their own)...it is the tone of voice that was used.
Cross-cultural relationships are a fact of life in most countries and cultures now...people travel more, people live overseas more often now and the world's population is now more culturally aware...this all leads to greater cross-cultural relationships....
Having been involved with two Chinese guys in the past, the relationships did not really suffer in anyway due to 'cultural differences' more as a result of basic realtionship issues that everyone suffers from...toilet seats left up, garbage not taken out,...that sort of mundane stuff...cultural differences did occur but more as a learning curve and as part of the relationship developing than anything else...the sort of stuff that Lily Wong and Stuart went through...like this.
...and I just have to say that anyone, from any race, culture or religion who cuts their toe nails (or finger nails for that matter) anywhere near me is on a very slippery slope...some things are just better done in private...behind closed doors.
posted by Madame Chiang at 11:58 am
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I thought I was the only person who liked Lily Wong. She sits proudly as the wallpaper on my computer.
And the last strip you linked to is so true..........
I love Lily Wong..amongst the best cartoon strips ever...I have all the Lily Wong books....It was a sad day when the SCMP dropped her and a good day when The Standard picked her up....
This can't have effect in reality, that's what I think.
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