[Jefferson]

(11-22-2018 11:16 AM)BaatumMania Wrote:  

Most of the Chinese in South East Asia are self-made. Mainland China was poor as shit until the 1980s so it's not like Communist China made them rich. Chinese in the region were also greatly impoverished too (which is why so many joined the Communist Party in Malaysia and Philippines).

Chinese get richer quicker than most nationalities just because of an insane work ethic and high savings' rates and arguably more individualism (yes Chinese are kind of family oriented compared to westerners but they don't give money to 2nd and 3rd cousins or support the whole village like South East Asians tend to do). .

They are self-made in the sense they were poor to start with, yes, but of course they achieved their wealth on the back of the Malaysian and Indonesian market in which they operated, ie they made a profit on the locals. After they do that they do not give back to local society because they do not integrate fully, with their own language and chinese connections they always tended to stick to their own kind, minus taking on local women obviously.

Yes, they are hard working but they are also to a certain extent parasitic, self-enclosed and self centred communities, who at times have their offspring steal from the locals in a spectuclar way, as we see with the story of this Ethnic Chinese fraudster who stole from a Malaysian pension fund designed to benefit the Malaysian people.