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I realise that copy/pasting entire articles from newspapers is not really the done thing...however....I couldn't resist this one...
From the SCMP
Have HK girls stopped looking for Mr White?
Columnist Chip Tsao claims local women no longer date western men. Is there any evidence?
NIKI LAW
Dating a westerner used to be frowned upon because it was controversial, but dating experts and commentators say locals are now avoiding cross-cultural relationships because they are no longer "fashionable".
Spurred by the media frenzy over actress Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi being seen with a westerner identified as Jeroen, a prominent media commentator recently devoted his column to the lack of appeal in dating westerners.
In a controversial and often scathing indictment of today's expatriates, the former BBC journalist and regular television pundit Chip Tsao said in his column: "In this day and age hanging out with a gweilo is `out'. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony so showing up with a gweilo at a ball or in Lan Kwai Fong escalated your status 100 times. Gweilos were high society and they either lived at the Peak or on Tai Tam Road." Writing in Easyfinder magazine, Tsao said Hong Kong's pre-colonial population of rich westerners sailed off into the sunset with ex-governor Chris Patten and the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation after the handover.
"The ones who stayed behind were left to fend for themselves. They had no choice but to move to dorms on Lamma Island or to rent stone houses that people in Sai Kung use to house pigs," his column said.
"Clad in T-shirts, shorts and a pair of flip-flops, nowadays you see them buying beer from 7-Eleven so they can get the free gifts. They even try bargaining with the new mainland immigrant cashier to try to get a 10 per cent discount."
Tsao warned local girls not to hang out with westerners in Lan Kwai Fong unless they wanted to have a one-night stand in a small flat with "a guy who was muscular but did not last long in bed".
He concluded: "In this day and age you have to be careful when choosing a gweilo. They no longer have cars or property. You might end up stepping on a penniless landmine. It's too much to sacrifice for a passport."
Asked to reflect on his column, Tsao told the Sunday Morning Post it reflected his personal observations and those of his friends. "Hong Kong used to be an international city and English was important. But now we are just like the mainland. We talk about loving the motherland. In today's atmosphere dating a gweilo is like selling out your country."
However, Mak Hoi-wah, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies at City University, believes that the trend has to do less with racism than with the fact that westerners and locals are now much closer.
"The difference in social status has decreased and the lines of racial division have softened," he said.
"Also westerners today feel there is no need to put up a front. People just don't feel that westerners are anything special anymore."
Anne Chow, owner of dating service Diamond Single Club, said that members used to admire westerners but clients rarely requested to meet westerners now.
"We have 5,000 members but there is only one girl who always requests to meet westerners. It is not discrimination but people just don't think it's a talking point any more."
Mr Hon of Match Maker dating service said cultural differences were too much to handle for most people.
He said that since it was now so easy to emigrate, westerners were even less appealing because Hong Kong people were no longer willing to put up with differences in return for a passport.
"Most people find cross-cultural relationships difficult. Usually in the beginning they are happy. But once they start to understand each other they realise they cannot accept the differences. There's not much magic left when you watch him cut his toenails," he said.
"The clients who ask for westerners mostly want to emigrate to places like North America. But now it is very easy to do it on your own - through business connections or relatives. As a result only about 3 to 4 per cent of our clients now request to meet westerners."
From the SCMP
Have HK girls stopped looking for Mr White?
Columnist Chip Tsao claims local women no longer date western men. Is there any evidence?
NIKI LAW
Dating a westerner used to be frowned upon because it was controversial, but dating experts and commentators say locals are now avoiding cross-cultural relationships because they are no longer "fashionable".
Spurred by the media frenzy over actress Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi being seen with a westerner identified as Jeroen, a prominent media commentator recently devoted his column to the lack of appeal in dating westerners.
In a controversial and often scathing indictment of today's expatriates, the former BBC journalist and regular television pundit Chip Tsao said in his column: "In this day and age hanging out with a gweilo is `out'. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony so showing up with a gweilo at a ball or in Lan Kwai Fong escalated your status 100 times. Gweilos were high society and they either lived at the Peak or on Tai Tam Road." Writing in Easyfinder magazine, Tsao said Hong Kong's pre-colonial population of rich westerners sailed off into the sunset with ex-governor Chris Patten and the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation after the handover.
"The ones who stayed behind were left to fend for themselves. They had no choice but to move to dorms on Lamma Island or to rent stone houses that people in Sai Kung use to house pigs," his column said.
"Clad in T-shirts, shorts and a pair of flip-flops, nowadays you see them buying beer from 7-Eleven so they can get the free gifts. They even try bargaining with the new mainland immigrant cashier to try to get a 10 per cent discount."
Tsao warned local girls not to hang out with westerners in Lan Kwai Fong unless they wanted to have a one-night stand in a small flat with "a guy who was muscular but did not last long in bed".
He concluded: "In this day and age you have to be careful when choosing a gweilo. They no longer have cars or property. You might end up stepping on a penniless landmine. It's too much to sacrifice for a passport."
Asked to reflect on his column, Tsao told the Sunday Morning Post it reflected his personal observations and those of his friends. "Hong Kong used to be an international city and English was important. But now we are just like the mainland. We talk about loving the motherland. In today's atmosphere dating a gweilo is like selling out your country."
However, Mak Hoi-wah, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies at City University, believes that the trend has to do less with racism than with the fact that westerners and locals are now much closer.
"The difference in social status has decreased and the lines of racial division have softened," he said.
"Also westerners today feel there is no need to put up a front. People just don't feel that westerners are anything special anymore."
Anne Chow, owner of dating service Diamond Single Club, said that members used to admire westerners but clients rarely requested to meet westerners now.
"We have 5,000 members but there is only one girl who always requests to meet westerners. It is not discrimination but people just don't think it's a talking point any more."
Mr Hon of Match Maker dating service said cultural differences were too much to handle for most people.
He said that since it was now so easy to emigrate, westerners were even less appealing because Hong Kong people were no longer willing to put up with differences in return for a passport.
"Most people find cross-cultural relationships difficult. Usually in the beginning they are happy. But once they start to understand each other they realise they cannot accept the differences. There's not much magic left when you watch him cut his toenails," he said.
"The clients who ask for westerners mostly want to emigrate to places like North America. But now it is very easy to do it on your own - through business connections or relatives. As a result only about 3 to 4 per cent of our clients now request to meet westerners."
posted by Madame Chiang at 12:45 pm
10 Comments:
*grin*
You should have put up a warning, that was just too funny!
is it not just one of the most bizarre things you have ever read....
and surely any relationship - cross-cultural or otherwise suffers from the "There's not much magic left when you watch him cut his toenails," syndrome...
Like I need to read things like this.....
All this does is add fuel to the fire, namely the inescable conclusion that I came to Asia about 15 years too late. Guess I should have been in Hong Kong a few years before the handover......
If I wanted to get ignored by women and insulted by them, I could have stayed in the states for that.
It says a lot about what the writer thinks that the motivations of a relationship are! Its all about form over substance.
Well my 5 Chinese girl friends might disagree with you on this. I am not a muscle-bound moron, but an HK MBA student with plenty of future career potential. None of my girlfriends are no hopers, all have or will have fantastic careers ahead of them in HK. They, for the most part, prefer white guys, and me in particular, because Chinese guys are so rude, racist and ignorant. This isn't a trait common to HK, many mainland males have even more problems, which is why so many girls there also prefer white guys. The SCMP propaganda is an attempt to stem the tide towards more mixed marriages and happy Chinese girls. Now who'd want to Chinese girls not to be happy, oh yeah, Chinese guys.
oh lord...more ignorant white guys sitting on their high horses. maybe these Asian chicks need a taste of REAL Asiaphiles from America. that'll sour them on white guys too after they're forced to cook, massage their backs, and get dumped for some other Asian broad who doesn't know any better. Watch out if your hubby wants to take a Asia trip with his buddies, ladies!!! He'll be having orgies with lil 6 year olds.
once again, whites love to over generalize minorities, especially the males (whiteys are the only ones looked at as individuals), and more brainwashed Asians selling out. Guys from all races can act likes a bunch of turds. The difference is how brainwashed are you to think otherwise....
BTW, any "man" who needs to move out of their own country to get laid are fckn losers (like Skippy and that MBA retard) relying on positive stereotypes created from white imperialism & colonialism.
suck on that.
LOL! I found the article very funny - whilst trying to have a pop at Westerners, it's actually demeaning HK girls, saying all they are interested in are cars, money and property. Oh and a passport. How shallow...
In the UK, the white guys get all the hot Chinese chicks too, hehe!
The author claimed this was tongue in cheek. I think he was just trying to save face. We need more articles like this. There are no good looking women in hong kong. They can take the ugly hongies if they want to. These guys always end up with the leftovers anyways. But dont seem to be able to tell the difference. To them anything over there is "fine". If I was a teacher and had relationships with my students in the usa or uk, i'd be jailed. But these guys seem to be on the same "run my own dating service" trip. As one girl I know says: "Were not all gold diggers we just dont want no broke a** (figure the rest out)"
"They, for the most part, prefer white guys, and me in particular, because Chinese guys are so rude, racist and ignorant. This isn't a trait common to HK, many mainland males have even more problems, which is why so many girls there also prefer white guys."
I agree with MBA Whitey. MR CHEAP CHOW IS THE CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF SUCH SHOW OF RUDENESS, OF BEING RACIST!!! I don't find his articles funny. Its plain and simple cheap journalism!!!! Educated in London, huh!!! His mentors should be ashamed of him and what has he become!!!
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