http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/more-stages-of-the-globalisation-process/ European Opinion Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/more-stages-of-the-globalisation-process/#comment-16502 Gag Halfrunt Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:54:03 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=2766#comment-16502 IIRC there's a sizeable Chinese community in Belgrade, fruit of Milosevic's grand plan to establish a Yugoslav-Russian-Chinese-Belarusian axis to oppose American imperialist hegemony. The Chinese who came to Belgrade, on the other hand, probably seized the opportunity to set themselves up in a European country and then wait for Serbia to return to the European mainstream once Milosevic was gone. IIRC there’s a sizeable Chinese community in Belgrade, fruit of Milosevic’s grand plan to establish a Yugoslav-Russian-Chinese-Belarusian axis to oppose American imperialist hegemony. The Chinese who came to Belgrade, on the other hand, probably seized the opportunity to set themselves up in a European country and then wait for Serbia to return to the European mainstream once Milosevic was gone.

]]> http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/more-stages-of-the-globalisation-process/#comment-16501 Luci Sandor Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:14:35 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=2766#comment-16501 I think that the number of Chinese in Romania is unknown, and I suppose they run in the tens f thousands. My Romanina-Chunese recollections start with the gang killing that ended up with the victim cut into pieces and discarded in the lake where Dambovita enters Bucharest. It's almost 15 years since that happened and one can still hear the jokes about "the Chinese guy coming in two luggages". Afterwards, when I moved to Bucharest, I discovered that the cheapest textile were sold in a open air market called Europa, at the edge of Bucharest. In these years, masked and armed cops go there now and then for the evasionists and counterfeiters, to no avail IMHO. The areas of the outer Colentina, the closest high rise neighbourhood, have a lot of Chinese inhabitants, but one cannot see any Chinese name in the intercom lists. I know that Chinese food, being more expensive than the Arab/Turkish-like one, is mostly for the new middle and higher class. It could be unhelpful that there stilll are stories about Pekingese being the main course. Almost a year ago, an Italian business man brought to Bacau, a provincial city, about 100 Chinese young women. He got them visas and hired them in his textile factory. Rounors are that the girls are not allowed to go anywhere outside the dormitory building and the factory and that they are paid less than €100. But the same rumors say that the girls are going to be in the number of thousands (if they aren't there already). I recall a story from the 90's, in the Europa market. An old Chinese woman kicking a Roma pickpocket with her umbrella. Pickpockets were/are usually covered by a gang, but this time nobody dared to save the poor guy, because one could not tell wether she was a friend of the other Chinese around. I think that the number of Chinese in Romania is unknown, and I suppose they run in the tens f thousands.
My Romanina-Chunese recollections start with the gang killing that ended up with the victim cut into pieces and discarded in the lake where Dambovita enters Bucharest. It’s almost 15 years since that happened and one can still hear the jokes about “the Chinese guy coming in two luggages”.
Afterwards, when I moved to Bucharest, I discovered that the cheapest textile were sold in a open air market called Europa, at the edge of Bucharest. In these years, masked and armed cops go there now and then for the evasionists and counterfeiters, to no avail IMHO. The areas of the outer Colentina, the closest high rise neighbourhood, have a lot of Chinese inhabitants, but one cannot see any Chinese name in the intercom lists.
I know that Chinese food, being more expensive than the Arab/Turkish-like one, is mostly for the new middle and higher class. It could be unhelpful that there stilll are stories about Pekingese being the main course.
Almost a year ago, an Italian business man brought to Bacau, a provincial city, about 100 Chinese young women. He got them visas and hired them in his textile factory. Rounors are that the girls are not allowed to go anywhere outside the dormitory building and the factory and that they are paid less than €100. But the same rumors say that the girls are going to be in the number of thousands (if they aren’t there already).
I recall a story from the 90’s, in the Europa market. An old Chinese woman kicking a Roma pickpocket with her umbrella. Pickpockets were/are usually covered by a gang, but this time nobody dared to save the poor guy, because one could not tell wether she was a friend of the other Chinese around.

]]> http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/more-stages-of-the-globalisation-process/#comment-16500 me Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:08:36 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=2766#comment-16500 We have had an Asian Mall in Atlanta for at least 10 years that I know of. We have had an Asian Mall in Atlanta for at least 10 years that I know of.

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