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Subject:	Would the Chinese be In the Mood to Forgive and Forget?
Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:21:07 -0700
From:	Jas Jain

Would the Chinese be In the Mood to Forgive and Forget?

California, in general, and the Bay Area, in particular, has been home to big-time corporate crooks since the conquest of the state by the US. Among them were Crocker, Hopkins, Huntington and Stanford who built the Central Pacific railroad by plundering of massive resources (huge amount of Northern California land!) and public money (US govt paying for most of the cost and the crooks owning the railroad). This from The ASSOCIATES by Richard Rayner talking about the building of the railroad when they couldn't find many whites to work as laborers and hiring of the Chinese became an absolute necessity (otherwise, they would have lost it all), my emphasis:

"So deep was the hostility against the Chinese that it was necessary to give them military protection until their own growing numbers enabled them to defend themselves."

 

At the time California Chinese were despised and had few rights. They could not go to public school, vote, or testify in court. In his inaugural speech as governor, Leland Stanford has previously called them the "dregs of Asia" and "that degraded race." Crocker's construction superintendent… said: "I will not boss the damned Chinaman. He is strange. He smells. He eats disgusting things. He is not a mason."

 

…Crocker [desperate when he couldn't find enough Irish, and whatever he could find fled to take silver mining jobs] pointed out that the Chinese in fact had built the Great Wall. Moreover, they were prepared to work for $35 a month, as compared to$3 a day for the Irish [cheap labor is music to the ears of any good capitalist]. At first only 50 were hired… Then another fifty were hired. Within months… 5,000 were at work and Stanford sent to China for thousands more [he knew a good deal when he saw one], as if he were ordering barrels of nails… Stanford, ever a politician, then changed tack, and started calling his Chinese employees "the Asiatic contingent of the great army of civilization."

 

Isn't it amazing all the complaints one hears from the blacks and Jews about their historic treatment at the hands of white Christians and very little from the Chinese and the Japanese in the US, who have been here since 1800s, and Indians, who worked in railroads in South Africa and on plantations in many British islands?

 

When the Chinese takeover California, economically, it would be a sweet revenge indeed. Pride cometh before the fall! Do Americans know how far they need to fall to arrive at a new equilibrium among the nations and the races? The Chinese would assert their superiority as soon as they are confident that they can without much resistance. Please don't tell me about the American exceptionalism and ingenuity. These things, like goddess of wealth, Laxmi, move around. Americans have blown away their great advantage by acquiring dopey beliefs and habits, e.g., actively supporting crooks and liars. Chinese are fast adapting better beliefs and habits. It is only a matter of time before the advantage crosses over. Cycles are among the constants in human history. Born-and-bred American dopes like Warren Buffett take American success for granted.

Jas

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