My Chinese Neighbour Gary

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Have decided to self moderate myself here as the ensuing posts are far more interesting that anything I wrote. Gary and his wife are sensitive people. Chineses folk are not exactly thick on the ground here and because they are "different" in other people's eyes and the son has a talent they perceive themselves as soft targets. They wanted to buy the house next door but the landlord won't sell it to them.
The lad is due to go to Comprehensive school soon and because they only rent the house next door to us, which I didn't realise, they are looking to buy a property in town nearer the school but are concerned their property, car etc might be targeted and I can tell they are nervous for their son at his new school.
 
Pretty funny stories there....


I dont know what to say really. Chinese people is a bit weird sometimes especially the ones from China. My parents are from hong Kong thus, im kinda chinese even though i cant write, read the language and generally for some bizarre reason dont really get on with my chinese peers for instance my cousins from hong Kong. Different culture, different life.

Believe it or not, even Chinese people dont like each other ( happens q often by the way). The people from Hong Kong generally dont generally like the people from China. The people from HK, are generally more sophistated than the ones from China, the ones from China is also less adaptable to cultures, they probably still do things like they do in China. Whereas, people from HK wouldnt and try to live 'normally'. Also, there are Chinese from Singapore and Maylasian area. Again, generally, Chinese from Hong Kong dont like them either...( main reason is to do with their work ethic, lack of, back stabbing etc!)

The stories regarding the pianos, violins etc, is q funny. U will generally find Chinese people to b q academic, especially the ones from HK and their kids tend to b brainboxes from the age of 2, learning to write.GCSE grand old age of 10, can play all instruments under the sun...blah, blah, next Einstein. I was one of a few who slipped through the net...


Hope the above give u a bit of a better insight into Chinese people even us 'chinese' thinks what some chinese get up to is odd...Im pretty sure, DG if u ever get invited for dinner, u will be giving some horror stories about the food they eat as well... Lastly, there is a pretty big gambling culture in Chinese people so u might find a common ground in the horses....
 
Only thing to remember is NOT to make any kamikaze references to them - they were Japanese, remember, who raped, pillaged, and massacred the Chinese prior to the Second World War in the Sino-Japanese War - absolutely NO love lost there, with survivors still trying to get an apology from the Japanese government for what was done to them. A dreadful episode in history, documented in a harrowing book called 'The Rape of Nanking'.

They sound like a really nice family, very trusting, and very close to one another. Chinese children seem to be very academically and artistically advanced, given the chance, and the academies in which the best of the best are hot-housed are intense. It's interesting what Will says, since there's definitely a big gulf between Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking Chinese peoples, and as it's such a huge country, it's no wonder there are differences borne out of the vastly different geographical and tribal spreads. Every country seems to be the same in this regard - there's always a north-south, or east-west split in cultures , isn't there?
 
DG's moderated post is a depressing reminder of how much racism there is and how it affects people .
 
I've just read a book called Tokyo by Mo Hayder, Jon, which is about the atrocities that happened in Nanking. It is a fictional thriller but it does go into a lot of the horrors that occurred in the war with Japan, concentrating on Nanking. It is terrible what a supposedly civilised race was capable of.

I'm sorry I missed your original post, DG - obviously I don't know what was in it but I do find it hard to believe that you were offesive about anybody!
 
No not offensive, you know me well now :D but slightly taking the mick and I felt a bit guilty :shy: Not too proud to admit it either.
 
Just want to make it clear that I did not mean that DG was racist but what his neighbours have told him about their worries illustrates how people are mistreated just for being different
 
I didn't think for a second you were saying DG was racist, James, I put that comment about DG's feeling that he should 'self-moderate' as I found it so hard to believe that he'd put anything that anyone could find in the least bit offensive. As you say, DG - I'm sure I do know you better than that! :D
 
I think the posting was more about individuals than a whole race. Just calling a Chinese person Gary makes me smile and actually picturing some of the scenario's made me giggle out loud - especially the car driving episode.

It is awful that we all have to be so PC nowadays, especially if it stifles DG's anecdotes. B) I had started reading the thread last night, saw it was a long one (so to speak) so was hoping to continue reading it today. :(
 
I'd love to know what other races make of us, and how they'd view our antics in their countries: our obsession with tea, and so on. I was thinking about it this morning, when up betimes, I had a piece of toast. I thought how different breakfasts are in different countries: Thais will eat a soup, the Danes will eat cheese and ham, the Germans will eat vast platters of various wursts and drink masses of coffee, the Americans scoff doughnuts, and the Scots take their traditional croissant and skinny latte...
 
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