HONG KONG GET ON WITH IT
HONG KONG GET ON WITH IT
Edgar Snow the famous American author and correspondent in his book, “ Glory and Bondage “ makes the following statement .Quote,” I don’t know what it is that makes the average middle-class Englishman, well-behaved and unassuming and likable enough at home, begin to take on these patronizing and gauche airs very often as soon as he finds himself among “ natives “ anywhere, but it is a disease, which permeates the entire colonial bureaucracy, and poisons relations between the British and their subjects in many lands. It is all very well to feel superior to other people if you can dissimulate it as skilfully as the Chinese do, but neither the English , the Americans or the Australians (my addition) are as highly civilized as that. “ Unquote.
The older hands in Cathay Pacific with their provident funds secure will dismiss all this with a shrug. However you “ Griffins “ who are now part of the Hong Kong scene would be wise to take these words on board. Not long after Edgar Snow expressed his thoughts the British were kicked out of India having just been kicked out of Burma. More boot was to follow from both Singapore and Malaya. Hong Kong is dragging its feet just a little (the odour of colonialism still lingers) but mark my words further change is coming and so it should.
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P.S. “Griffin” : A new arrival in the Far East