Comments on: From my in-box: Cabin-fever Gozo is perfect for Chinese students

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:25:00 +0000

And that’s also why they all chomp their food. If you didn’t, you were bourgeoisie and you were shot.

I think it’s time we dropped this PC nonsense about China.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 23:20:00 +0000

Whether the Chinese students have money or not is irrelevant. It takes more than money in one generation to change a value system. Practically all Chinese people alive today are working-class because the old bourgeoisie and the upper classes were systematically eliminated in the Cultural Revolution. That’s exactly why you have all that bling-bling materialism.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:44:00 +0000

Look, if your sole aim in popping in is to pick a fight in defence of China, don’t bother. It’s like a religion to you, so expecting anything rational is out of the question.

The Chinese students do it for reassurance too. Both the impoverished Maltese working-class immigrants in Australia and the rich Chinese working-class students in Britain were/are wrong to cling to each other for reassurance. That is my point.

It’s not because they are Chinese. It’s because they are working-class, uncultured and frightened of anything foreign despite being there, as a result of their isolation. The common factor is not nationality but social background, isolation and an unwillingness to make the effort to learn the language and integrate, mainly due to fear of the strangeness.

The Maltese working-class no longer has that problem on emigration, because its members are no longer as isolated as they were. And consequently, Maltese people no longer hang around in ghettos, nor do they cling together at British universities.

By: Leli

Leli — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:28:00 +0000

Lovely. Chinese students with a weak grasp of English at a well-known British school. Where lectures done with pictures?

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:01:00 +0000

Ah, our China-worshipper. You’re back.

Maltese immigrants in Canada, the US and Australia: that wasn’t because they were Maltese, but because they were working-class people who didn’t speak English and didn’t understand the native customs, so clung together for reassurance.

Just like the Chinese people we’re talking about here: same difference.

By: Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:12:00 +0000

Maybe Konrad Mizzi has managed to sell St.Luke’s to the Chinese. http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/01/read-about-it-in-china-daily-konrad-mizzis-plans-for-treating-maltese-infertility-with-chinese-traditional-medicine/

By: Frank Anderson

Frank Anderson — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:52:00 +0000

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”— Samuel Johnson.

Apparently, Johnson had not heard of Gozo.

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:44:00 +0000

Muscat will probably then boast of improving Sino-British relations. At this rate he would probably expect a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.