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I couldn't agree more. I recently traveled to a nearby city called Xiamen. (Fujian Province) This large city used to be called Amoy and it was from here that as many as 300,000 Chinese coolies emigrated - mainly to the USA and British colonies in the late 1800's. Many of these people founded the many "Chinatowns" to be found all over the world. It's terrible to think that, at that time, China's greatest export was human beings.
Many who left the shores of China never returned and these same people helped build the railroad which runs across the US from San Francisco to New York. They had to tunnel their way through theRocky Mountains using dynamite and many were killed.
China is rapidly opening up and becoming a consumer society.They've woken up to many of the marketing tactics used in the west. Withtheir strong work ethic and their new found love of consumerism,all I can say is, look out world!
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04-19-2006, 05:30 PM
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