Cynthia wrote:
>
> > Such claims are typically bogus. The only people who do not like colonial rule
> > are the local native aristocracy that aren't allowed to abuse their people any
> > way they want to any more...
>
> How do you know this? There seemed to be quite a bit of swelling of ethnic
> pride when Hong Kong was turned over the Chinese. Are people so rational as to
> prefer good government to a corrupt government, when ethnic pride and massive
> propaganda exists to push them the other way?
OH, I didn't say that the average person couldn't be brain washed to
prefer
getting abused by the devil they know versus the devil they don't.
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