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Krafty how is today taxi business?
last week I saw taxi uncle brought pinoy maid to botanical garden
For Chinese in white man country (Oz, Cana, Kiwi, US..) it is not good to be still working (if indeed you can find employment). Most are in own business or partnership with other immigrant.
So how many are overseas again? And only thousands flock back? Must be the useless ones
This phenomenon has been happening since the late '80s when HKers left in droves for Canada to escape impending Chinese takeover in '97.
Family migrate to Canada, get PR/citizenship. Dad returns to HK to run business leaving children and wife behind in Canada to take advantage of free education and welfare system. These people were called taikonauts, a pun on the Chinese words 太空人 which had a double meaning; 'space traveller' and 'man without wife'. Many of the returnees hooked up with Chinese mainland SYTs while their wives were raising their children in the land of the maple tree. Jackie Chan was one such example.
Sounds exciting sounds like Chinese are paving the way for us Chinese as the immigration frontier to the world.looks like there will be a Chinatown soon in every country in the world.I hope one day I would be rich enough to set up a office or company in Canada hong Kong Australia and every city in the world.
The 3 great diasporas: Chinese, Jews, Indians
The 3 great diasporas: Chinese, Jews, Indians