Hong Kong Disneyland And The Hordes...

Here's a link, courtesy of EastSouthWestNorth, that has an article about the just-recently opened Hong Kong Disneyland.

Credits go to Apple Daily, Ming Pao and NineMSN as well, for the write-ups by their reporters.

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050914_2.htm

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=62379

I quote some of the sentences used in the articles (just in case you don't wish to read it):

"The Ming Pao Daily reported Tuesday that visitors from mainland China disregarded the theme park's rules and smoked cigarettes in restaurants and other nonsmoking areas."

"The newspaper carried another photograph showing a woman from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong helping a young child loosen his trousers to urinate beside a flower bed."

"It was hot yesterday, and so some mainland Chinese male tourists pulled up their shirts to display their flesh. Some people pulled up their long pants to turn them into shorts just to cool down. Others squat by the roadside to chat."

"Our reporter observed a "classical" scene. Right in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle, the reporter saw our stream of water falling by the road. The reporter turned out and saw a bare-bottomed boy urinating into the flower bed under the direction of his mother. Some of the "fertilizer" fell on the ground. Later, that little boy ran around the plaza while exhibiting his "little bird.""

And this line probably sums it all up in one line:

"Although Hong Kong, a former British colony, returned to Chinese rule in 1997, many locals regard themselves as more refined and educated than their mainland Chinese counterparts."