FUJIANESE GANGSTERS

Protests in Hong Kong are getting out of hand. And, given that there is a pointlessness to all of this, as things will not change even if Carrie Lam resigns, one can either wonder what the end game will be, or frankly encourage mayhem from all sides.

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"Tensions remained high in North Point, a potentially dangerous hotspot where hundreds from the city’s close-knit Fujianese community, bolstered by clan reinforcements from mainland China and the Philippines, waited to confront any protester arriving in their neighbourhood."
End quote.

Source: Hong Kong police ramp up force, firing tear gas inside Kwai Fong MTR station, as city rocked by more anti-government protest violence - SCMP.

"Protesters continue hit-and-run tactics – police respond to bricks and petrol bombs with tear gas and baton charges"


One suspects that after this is all over, speaking the Fujianese languages in public may not be wise. Except in Fujian, Beijing, Manila, and New York. But especially not in Hong Kong. The other thing that's striking is the word "petrol bombs", which indicates a level of insanity which was previously unimaginable -- well, to anyone not familiar with the Cantonese, who despite their very many admirable and even lovable qualities have always had an edge of batshit crazy that is almost de rigeur for their stubborness and keen spirit of enterprise -- that demands a response from the authorities. More baton charges, more teargas grenades, more water cannons.
And possibly armoured vehicles and actual bullets.


Slight sidetrack about the increasing chance of police violence: Staging a threatening riot on Muk Lun Street (睦鄰街) at the Wong Tai Sin Disciplined Services Quarters (黃大仙紀律部隊宿舍), where families of the police are housed, will not have contributed anything positive, and might well have been the all-time most bone-headed thing to do.

Ten weeks is a slow ramp-up to utter madness.



香港北角嘅臭死福建人

I am disturbed by the mention of "clan reinforcements from mainland China and the Philippines". How the hell did those violent scum get in?
And who is enabling and funding this?

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"More than 1 million people from Fujian province, in southeast China, live in Hong Kong and there is a large and close-knit community of Fujianese living in North Point. During an address to the federation in October, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the Fujianese in the city had always been patriotic and supported the government."
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Source: Fujianese community rally in support of Hong Kong police, call for end to violence - SCMP

"Federation general secretary dismisses report that some clans had joined forces with the 14K triad gang in plan to attack protesters ... "


This blogger is perfectly fine with putting all Fujianese, from whatever region or country, on a no-fly list until all of this gets sorted out.

BTW: There are a lot of Fujianese in Manhattan.
Perhaps too many.



AFTER WORD

The Fujianese languages represent a fascinating subject for linguists. Derived from an older stratum of Sinitic speech than many other branches of the family, divided into a number of dialect groups and regionally dominant forms, such as Amoy (廈門話; standard in a bastardized variant among the Chinese in the Philippines), Hokchiu (福州話; Eastern Fujian), Teochow (潮州話、潮汕話; from Swatow in northern Guangdong), Taiwanese Hokkien (臺灣閩南語; widely understood by others), Quanzhou, et autres. Not as many speakers as Cantonese, nor as delightfully eloquent either.
And sometimes impossibly barbaric.

I used to speak a little Jakarta Hokkien.
Forgotten nearly all of it.
No practice.



POST SCRIPTUM

There are indications that mainland undercover officers are already involved in countering protesters. This can only be with the knowledge, and likely complete co-operation and approval, of the HK authorities and police.




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