From: mme@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mann Me)
Subject: Re: BANANAS (was Re: Thanks, buddy!)
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 06:32:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug10.224513.5652@odin.corp.sgi.com> yu@chang.asd.sgi.com (Yu Chang) writes:
>In article <1992Aug10.194128.27344@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
>pchang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Pei-Yuan Chang) writes:
>

>
>Being father of two ABC (american born chinese) boys. I am concerned with their
>future. Whether their future is going to be in the US, Taiwan where their
>parents were from, or Mainland where their grandparents were from and where
>seems will provide the most opportunities in the next century. I do not know.
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This is one of the most important phrase I have heard since the 
thread started.  This is also what makes me think and have reservation
setting my roots here.  Of late, I have heard from so many sources
that seems to echo the same sentiment that the  region of prosperity
and growth will move to the Asia-Pacific. So it may well be that the
region will be an important, progressive and prosperous one in the
next century. Already in many places like Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan,
Hong Kong and Singapore you can have almost all that the west have
in terms of services and goods and the dormant dragon,China, is 
poised to awake in the very new future. Look at the way Southern 
China is developing.  I looks to me like a prototype for a modern
and industrialized China.

>
>I think all these place in the next few decades would provide similar
>environment and opportunities. Things like Racial, Education, Living
>Standard ... are all important. But for me, I am for concerned with
>something else.

Ya I could not agree with you more here!

>
>I really hate to bring politics into this discussion. But had anyone
>thought about our own generation first. I was back in Taiwan visiting last
>May and had the following two incidents both with taxi drivers,
>
>1) It was a rainny day around 6pm. You guys know what the traffic was like
>   in taipei and my mom and I were lucky to find this taxi.
>   After 20 minutes trapped in the traffic and moved merely 2 blocks.
>
>Mom:	Mr. driver. The traffic is really bad today.
>	Sorry for the inconvienence.
>
>Driver:	After you people from mainland (Wy4 Shen3 Zen2) all get out of taiwan,
>	the traffic will become better.
>
>   This was cold and blunt I felt at the time. I could not believed my ears.

This is very unfortunate and perhaps has some bearing to the way China
was before the Communists. I personally think that Chinese have been
fighting each other for too long.  Look at all the clans and secret
societies that exist the world over where there are Chinese.  Despite
being Chinese, each of the groups still identify with the place/clans
that they belongs to..and often enough they instead of cooperates, 
fight among each other or perhaps I am watching too much Kung Fu 
movies 8).


Me Han Mann
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