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COMPARING ASIAN NATIONALITIES
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Ms Kwan,

You sound really insecure. I think your putdowns on Caucasian females seem almost like a defense response. Be more mature and realize that there are beauties in every race. I agree that Cacasian beauty is often overrated, but your description of them is just plain exaggerated and one sided. Being content with how the Chinese/Taiwanese look is one thing, doing so while putting down others is another.
Person Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 23:55:06 (PST)

Ms Kwan,
Are u stereotyping? What do you mean by "not too flat like Malaysian and not too tall like British? Not all Malaysians are flat and not all British are tall.I've seen alot of flat Taiwanese too and tall ones.There are flat people in every race and there are tall people in every race too.You are just another green-eyed lady.
Malaysian-Eurasian Gal18 Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 02:49:34 (PST)

How is this Hakka/Hoklo community in Netherland different than other Chinese communities in Western nations? What do you mean by "impact with the natives"?

The Chinatowns in the Netherlands are a combination of the best of both worlds. What does that mean?

1) The Dutch Chinatowns are large and very clean. They are free of foul odors and filthy garbage which are usually found in the Chinatowns of many major cities. The Red Light District is more of a typical Chinatown than any of the Dutch Chinatowns!

2) They are exotic yet they serve a practical purpose. Chinatowns are either "touristy" or real ethnic enclaves. Many Dutch will tell you that the Chinese in the Netherlands are polite towards outsiders because conduct their everyday affairs with their own people in an efficient manner.

3) The Dutch Chinatowns are very attractive and eye pleasing. Many of its architecture balance out well with many neighboring "Western" areas. Some of the restaurants even float on water, yet they don't stick out like a cheesy sore thumb.

What are the reasons? Compatibilty on both sides.

1) The Dutch are the most tolerant of Asians of all of the Western European groups. Compare them with the Germans or the Anglos or even the Francos, they are very receptive of non-western peoples in an intellectual fashion. The best European journals about the Chinese and the Japanese cultures are published in the Netherlands.

2) The Chinese in the Netherlands are mainly Cantonese speaking, however most of them either come from a Hakka or a Hoklo tradition which emphasizes on aesthetics, education, etiquette and path finding.

Believe or not, Hakkas and Hoklos have much more in common with the Japanese than with the Southern Chinese such as the Cantonese. Why did the Japanese in WW II brutally murdered the Cantonese and pillaged their villages, but were less violent with Taiwan and the Eastern Guangdong coastal areas like Chaozhou and Meizhou?

Btw, the Hakkas and Hoklos are neither true Cantonese nor true Fujianese. They are somewhat in between these 2 major groups of Southern Chinese. A good example of this is their architecture. Hakka and Hoklo structures are well balanced. Unlike Cantonese architecture which is stagnant and boring or the Fujianese style which is known to be as ostentatious or flashy.

Rivalry between the Chinese Friday, March 08, 2002 at 23:51:12 (PST)

Qiren, Angelique,

Under the Manchu "banner system" (qiren), all tribesmen were enrolled under different colored banners and the entire population-including captives, slaves and serfs-were registered, taxed and mobilized through these units which provided a transition from tribal to bureaucratic organization. Originally 4 in number, then 8, the banners were finally increased to 24, including 8 Han Chinese and 8 Mongol banners. In 1644, the conquest of Ming China was accomplished by 278 Manchu companies, about 169,000 men, fewer than half of whom were Manchu.

Banners did not fight as units but were dispersed in small numbers in banner garrisons around China and along the borders. These elite banner troops were supplemented by a larger, less mobile and untrained Chinese army of ex-Ming troops and local forces. Bannermen formed an aristocracy and imperial concubines, for example, were restricted to bannermen's daughters between the ages of 13 and 17.

Yes, the ones who were able to trace their banner lineage to the oldest Manchu ones often were the high Qing aristocrats.
Manchus in China Friday, March 08, 2002 at 20:26:51 (PST)

Ms.Kwan,

Taiwan women are the only women I have every met that are afraid to get a tan. I know women in taiwan that won't go out at noon to avoid the sun.

Some women even made me stop in the shade when there is a red light. If they forgot their sun umbrella, they cover their face with the hand or their hair.

They behave like vampires and the sun it the enemy.
AC Dropout Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:55:34 (PST)

Minnn Man,

No one is trashing the genetic study done. It is rudimentary biology and the conclusions drawn are not novel at all in the scientific community. Any 2nd year bio undergrad can recite from memory the divergent theory of genetic evolution.

The point I'm making is that those analysis are not credible outside of science and do not lend themselves for any political or socialogical conclusions.
AC Dropout Friday, March 08, 2002 at 10:10:57 (PST)

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