okie okie.... i am back from a few days of reading!
now for the answer to my question :
they did this to escape from the robbery. due to the inefficiency of the enforcement of law in china (i think it was before it became a communist country), the people that are in the poorer areas robbed in the broad day light because it was the easier way out. (if singapore wan't so strict with its laws, i would rob too!!!) so you have to fear everybody when you made some money cause they will rob every single cent from you, even your dearest neighbours. thus, the people there will never get rich. i don't know what happened to the existing rich people. maybe they employed guards who robbed them. haha....
you may ask why they didn't move to the other parts of the china. the sole reason is that it doesn't make any difference. unless you are born rich, i figured out that it is hardly ever possible to strike rich in their lifetime because they still can't afford guards!
thus, our ancestors decided to cross the dangerous waters to go nanyang in hope to making it big and have at least a safe place to live in, at least not fearing too much about their money. i don't know about the making it big part since our ancestors are coolies in majority but what i know is that singapore is a safe place to live in. i'm sure all you all know what i mean.
due to this movement, we are considered as cowards who cannot make it big and have to travel to other lands to try their luck. you can see why we are being looked down by the people of china right? but one fact that they didn't realised which some of us may is that they are BANDITS!!! our ancestors are peace loving people who don't resort to violence at least. heeheez! and don't they dare look down on us! if they think that singaporeaan chinese are inferior, they should get their ass away from our land and don't destroy our bowls (although i have learnt the fact that foreign workers do create more jobs) but who needs arrogant people to create bowls for us!? we can survive without them!!!! (i am infuriated by their actions!!!)
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one more fact that you may not know. 20-30 years ago, japan was like china today. Scary? i think so. let's see what will happen in 20 years. :D i am waiting for the time to come.
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(I had to fix a few typos, and there was no edit function, so it's the old delete and repost for this one!)
With all due respect to the original posting, I feel that it's a gross generalisation to say that the Japan that existed 20 to 30 years ago is like the China of today. Having only dabbled in Japanese Studies for the better part of a year I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but here's why I think they're quite distinct.
The economic and social environment of postwar Japan and China today is already markedly different. Japan has the unique "distinction" of being the only nation in the world to have had 2 of her major cities razed to the ground as the result of nuclear bombardment. Following her defeat in World War II, Japan was then occupied by America for seven years, and her previous governmental and economic structures were replaced in favour of new ones created by America. Comparatively while China has undergone political change and civil struggles, which I believe may be subject to external pressures, these have been internal Chinese issues and are quite different from how the Japanese were occupied by another foreign nation.
Japan of the 1970s was subject to the first world oil crisis, which let to severe price inflation as well as a severe decline in industrial output. In contrast the China of today is experiencing relatively unhindered growth, and has yet to face any events on a similar scale.
From the 1970s to the 1980s, as Japan's economy matured, the structure of the labour force in japan also changed, with labourers moving from agriculture to other industries (mainly manufacturing and heavy industry). In the 1970s, only 17% of the population remained in agriculture. Comparatively, China's labour force remains largely in agriculture (conservatively 50%) even today.
There're many more examples of how different Japan 20-30 years ago and China today are, but going by their economic development alone we're already able to observe some evident differences. If we were to further explore the Culturalist arguments this comment would quite certainly expand to a quite unmanageable length (and I'd almost certainly start rambling :)
However, I do understand what you were trying to get at - looking at the Japan of today in a positive light, I'm sure that given enough time China will certainly develop into a mature nation that carries herself gracefully in the international arena. However, I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I feel China still has quite a bit of distance to cover.
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