Alberta's Child: I tend to agree with her. Did she also suggest that the U.S. had no business chasing the Japanese out of Manchuria in the 1930s?
I'm afraid I didn't ask her that. But it really impressed me, how nationalistic to China she was even though she was Canadian. (She was a graduate student in molecular biology I met while visiting the University of Minnesota.) If her attitude is typical, we've got a real problem considering our treaty obligations to Taiwan.
Chinese don't assimilate well. The overt pressures on children to marry stragically in a manner to specificlly direct family wealth ensures this. In many ways, the overseas Chinese are like the Ashkenazi, e.g.portable wealth, plus a propensity to be owner operators, however, unlike them they do not share Western Judeo-christian values with their host societies.