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antiterror13
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Also it was a great lesson for China to realise of needed to modernise the PLA .. you see the was still continue until 1988 in lesser extent and Vietnamese force lost almost all of them, especially in Navy
Agreed that it is a bitter experience for CHina but China achieved most of the objective as @Biscuits mentioned above
See what PLA looks like now compare to Vietnam's
HKers seriously don't have the capability to look down on mainlanders, especially when both are in the US. I mean they can, but it doesn't make anyone sad or mad, it only makes them laugh.
People who have lost their ability to speak Chinese can't really be considered Chinese in any practical sense. Loss of access to the language basically is loss of access to the entire culture and community. That said, I strongly disagree that they can, therefore, be considered American. The fact of the situation is that they're not Americans, either, because American identity is ultimately a white identity.
Such Chinese Americans are, like all racial minorities who have lost most of their heritage, neither Chinese nor American. That is the tragedy of who they are and the root of their identity crisis. Naturally, it is worse for men because they are actively ostracized by the white mainstream, as well as by their own women, who are more able to fit in and so are able to pretend that they're white. The end result is what you would refer to as self-hate - people who hate themselves, the country they came from, and the race they were born as.
It's quite sad.
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For the longest time, I had wondered why those HKers did that and how it reflected on their character.
FriedRiceNSpice
Major
I would argue against that. As a whole relative to most other societies, I do feel the US is about as close to a multicultural society as you can get. Sure, prejudice, racism, and inequity due to cultural or ethnic background will exist to some extent in any society, but in terms of general acceptance and treatment towards people of different culture/ethnicity and economic and social opportunities, I can think of few places where minorities have an easier time. Asian Americans in particular have it better than many other demographic groups within the US, and the average and median income/wealth of Asian Americans are the highest out of any group within the US.
J ethnicity made the most money in Germany too. Chinese Indonesians made the most money in Indonesia too. What happened?
FriedRiceNSpice
Major
The level of integration of the minorities within their respective societies are drastically different in those cases.