george washington, stalin or hitler or even alexander are just plain inferior when you compared to what Sun yat sen or deng have done to change the course of a quarter of all humanity destiny forever(China population at that time was 25% of the world's pop). Never underestimate what the Hakkas can do. in fact at one time half of the China main standing committee or politburo were Hakkas. In fact the Mao's Long March would not have succeeded if not for the Hakkas who gave him refuge along a large part of the trail.
to understand the influnce go and read the book:The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise.
here is pasrt of the reference:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/654189?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Its in the genes . Not the language. so even if Deng speak sichuanese , the genes he had from Hakka makes him formidable. so formidable that people even equate the Hakkas with the jews and written alot of books on the Hakka influence. Deng is definitely a Hakka(all historians have always say so as he once admit his tenacity is probably from his hakka roots). so in LKY. in fact LKY always proudly declare he is a hakka (although he can't speak the dialect and conversed at home with his mother in peranakan baba).
https://www.henrymakow.com/2015/11/hakkas-the-jews-of-asia.html
https://liamchingliu.wordpress.com/...in-east-and-southeast-asia-and-south-america/
In fact many political analyst believe the Hakkas saved China literally from disaster >>>the taiping revolution, tong menghui to sun yat sen to the long march are evidence of the revolutions that make China what itis today. there is even an academic paper written on it( by an American white university professor who believed the Hakkas saved China !!!!). Here the reference:
http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=headwaters
https://www.pdx.edu/intl/sites/www.pdx.edu.intl/files/Erbaugh Secret History of Hakkas CQ (2).pdf
Few China scholars or Chinese citizens know one of the most basic facts about Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo or many other modern leaders: they are all Hakka.
there are many examples of famous political leaders, including the leader of the Taiping rebellion, Hong Xiuquan; former president of China, Sun Yat-sen; former Chinese Communist party chairman, Deng Xiaoping. Outside of China, the Hakkas also had many leaders, including former prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew and his son and current prime minister Lee Hsien Loong; former president of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui; current president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-Jeou; former prime minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, and his younger sister and former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra; former president of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino, and former president of Guyana, Arthur Chung, Soong May-ling, and the influential Soong sisters. There is even a Hakka Supreme Court chief justice, Y.K.J. Yeung Sik Yuen, in the island of Mauritius. -
in fact at one time, in the 1990s, it was said ALL chinese people in the "3 Chinas" were ruled over by the Hakkas. Mainland China by DengXP, Taiwan(renegade Chna) by Lee Teng Hui, singapore aka "Small china" by Lee kuan yew.
ref:
https://www.henrymakow.com/2015/11/hakkas-the-jews-of-asia.html#sthash.0CNrLUGc.dpuf
http://cominganarchy.com/2009/10/03/the-hakka-people-chinas-leadership-caste/
enough said academically. Go and research your history before commenting as some of the postings here esp those by retrenched are full of crap, idiotic and laughable. don't post subjective or dubious "facts" which you cannot verify or referenced. hahahahha