"No Chinamen and Dogs Allowed in the Premises"
This is nothing more than a lie being used by the communist party to re-enforce to the local population that China is "different" and not to trust or listen to foreigners.
I've been living in mainland for 5 years and speak fluent putonghua, most HKers don't even realize what lies across the border except for the tier 1 cities like SZ, Shanghai, Beijing etc. Foreigners in China are labeled as untrustworthy, cunningly evil, and in the past the government even taught in schools that "most" foreigners (lao wai, a derogatory term) have AIDS.
The term "no dogs or chinese allowed" NEVER existed in the sense perpetuated by the government and carried on in pop culture. It referred to a SINGLE park in beijing for the expat community, which was a place specifically for expats. There were also plenty of parks, buildings, and places where no foreigners were allowed and this continues to THIS DAY. Most parks also banned dogs, horses, spitting, public affection etc and these things were often listed on the same sign as "no foreigners" and in that specific case "only foreigners allowed", and still today this is used, e.g. "no foreigners, dogs, or other pets", do you here us complaining?? No because we don't have government institutionalized insecurities that say the whole world hates us and we can only trust the government.
People need to do their research and stop listening to "the man". Not only in this case but other blatently obvious cases such as the "white australia" policy. Yes there was a white australia policy, but China has a "Yellow China" policy TODAY - you CANNOT become a chinese citizen, and if anyone here has tried registering any kind of business in China they will know that they have policies and procedures making it extremely difficult for any non-mainland citizens.
So stop complaining about the big bad white people, if it wasn't for us HK would not even exist. Its sad that this same mentality still exists that a lot of HKers had during the cultural revolution when they tried to spread it here, needless to say it would have destroyed the place if us evil white people gave in (you woudn't have the luxury of a free press and open internet, you would be reading government controlled peoples daily and would not be using facebook or twitter for example even today, its us evil white folk that saved every man woman and child in HK from that fate, don't FKNG forget it). Lets see what happens after the 50 years is up and the "white oppressors and yellow running dogs" have no more influence over HK and you are all beijing's slaves. Bet you will have a completely different view when you start living like a mainlander. | |
