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Please note that an overwhelming percentage of the blogs reviewed
in this site is rated "recommended" or "top blog", in the positive category, though not all the blogs received a positive opinion from Sham-Shui-Po Boy.
Fumier, Shaky Kaiser, Nude King, See Lai, Piece of Mind, et al
Of course not all of the blogs that ended up in the
bottom of the barrel here are exactly the same --- none of
them are completely alike. In some ways, they're quite
different from each other. They're on this list
because they all have enough similarities to be in the
same category.
There is one barrister(lawyer) and one airlines pilot in this bunch. The barrister often writes needlessly in double-speaking legalese or 19th century English with a pretentious vocabulary; he's unfeeling and complaining constantly --- to him, the natives can't do anything
right (this blogger has deleted all his previous entries in his blog prior to this review). And every so often, the pilot throws in some airlines jargon
and writes about women, sex and the good old days.
Most of these bloggers, for lack of a better word, can be described
as carpetbaggers of one sort or another.
The tones of their blogs are more or less the same, irreverent, sarcastic and arrogant. The contents of these blogs abound with disparaging
remarks. Some of them are pornographic and racist. They're generally
dismissive about the natives, their culture and language, or pay only
lip service to them, or ignore them altogether.
Some of these bloggers are consistently talking
about cars and driving. In Hong Kong, owning a private vehicle is a status symbol, not a necessity.
What glues these expats to Hong Kong is money, a lifestyle they cannot afford back home -- England is no longer an economic power house it once was -- and to some, it's sex(Asian women), or both. They have minimal emotional attachment to this place. Socically, politically and culturally, they might as well be living on a different planet, they couldn't care less what the natives really think of them.
Sham-Shui-Po Boy says, the same attitude and mentality of the old order are still there, only now it's a tad less blatant. These bloggers are relics of our colonial past.
* There are some more ungrateful guests as those mentioned above, however, they are not listed in this review. Expat bloggers of their ilk and the worse ones deserve to be on the same list, but they do not deserve the world-wide publicity that Hong Kong Blogs Review provides.
Reviewed by Sham-Shui-Po Boy of hong-kong-blogs-review.com
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