Have HK girls stopped looking for Mr White? | Hongkong

Artyku? ?Have HK girls stopped looking for Mr White? ??kontrowersyjnego publicysty Chip Tsao, ukaza? si? w nieistniejacym ju? pi?mie brukowym ?Easy Finder? w 2005r. Poni?ej art. Niki Law z SCMP komentuj?cy ?obserwacje? Chip Tsao.

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I?m so glad. Now I can hit Lan Kwai Fong with the pig-stinking-flip-flop-clad ?toenail-clipping-gwailo-loser of my choice and look forward to a short bout of muscular sex without having to worry about being hassled by status hungry, passport grubbing gold-diggers.?

A oto art. Niki Law:

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Columnist Chip Tsao claims local women no longer date western men. Is there any evidence?
NIKI LAW

Dating a westerner used to be frowned upon because it was controversial, but dating experts and commentators say locals are now avoiding cross-cultural relationships because they are no longer ?fashionable?.
Spurred by the media frenzy over actress Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi being seen with a westerner identified as Jeroen, a prominent media commentator recently devoted his column to the lack of appeal in dating westerners.

In a controversial and often scathing indictment of today?s expatriates, the former BBC journalist and regular television pundit Chip Tsao said in his column: ?In this day and age hanging out with a gweilo is `out?. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony so showing up with a gweilo at a ball or in Lan Kwai Fong escalated your status 100 times. Gweilos were high society and they either lived at the Peak or on Tai Tam Road.? Writing in Easyfinder magazine, Tsao said Hong Kong?s pre-colonial population of rich westerners sailed off into the sunset with ex-governor Chris Patten and the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation after the handover.

?The ones who stayed behind were left to fend for themselves. They had no choice but to move to dorms on Lamma Island or to rent stone houses that people in Sai Kung use to house pigs,? his column said.

?Clad in T-shirts, shorts and a pair of flip-flops, nowadays you see them buying beer from 7-Eleven so they can get the free gifts. They even try bargaining with the new mainland immigrant cashier to try to get a 10 per cent discount.?

Tsao warned local girls not to hang out with westerners in Lan Kwai Fong unless they wanted to have a one-night stand in a small flat with ?a guy who was muscular but did not last long in bed?.

He concluded: ?In this day and age you have to be careful when choosing a gweilo. They no longer have cars or property. You might end up stepping on a penniless landmine. It?s too much to sacrifice for a passport.?

Asked to reflect on his column, Tsao told the Sunday Morning Post it reflected his personal observations and those of his friends. ?Hong Kong used to be an international city and English was important. But now we are just like the mainland. We talk about loving the motherland. In today?s atmosphere dating a gweilo is like selling out your country.?

However, Mak Hoi-wah, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies at City University, believes that the trend has to do less with racism than with the fact that westerners and locals are now much closer.

?The difference in social status has decreased and the lines of racial division have softened,? he said.

?Also westerners today feel there is no need to put up a front. People just don?t feel that westerners are anything special anymore.?

Anne Chow, owner of dating service Diamond Single Club, said that members used to admire westerners but clients rarely requested to meet westerners now.

?We have 5,000 members but there is only one girl who always requests to meet westerners. It is not discrimination but people just don?t think it?s a talking point any more.?

Mr Hon of Match Maker dating service said cultural differences were too much to handle for most people.

He said that since it was now so easy to emigrate, westerners were even less appealing because Hong Kong people were no longer willing to put up with differences in return for a passport.

?Most people find cross-cultural relationships difficult. Usually in the beginning they are happy. But once they start to understand each other they realise they cannot accept the differences. There?s not much magic left when you watch him cut his toenails,? he said.

?The clients who ask for westerners mostly want to emigrate to places like North America. But now it is very easy to do it on your own ? through business connections or relatives. As a result only about 3 to 4 per cent of our clients now request to meet westerners.?

Source: http://hongkong.info.pl/have-hk-girls-stopped-looking-for-mr-white/

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