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It is often a cultural rather than a religious difference.
Here in Hong Kong nearly all the parents in our Christian church community have very traditional views and spank their children and many cane them too. The church community consists of about half expats from the UK like us and half Chinese. I think that with the handover of Hong Kong we were not affected by the “progressive†views which have infected the UK in recent decades.
I can imagine. Hong Kong for the most part preserved its own culture.
Hong Kong took over China in 1997. I'm quite sure they preserved their heritage while they changed China into the largest capitalist economy in the world.
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(05-29-2019, 08:58 AM)Nancy Wrote: Hong Kong took over China in 1997. I'm quite sure they preserved their heritage while they changed China into the largest capitalist economy in the world.
Wrong China took back Hong Kong.
You are absolutely right. The lease on Hong Kong expired in 1997 and it reverted to China. My point was that China was changed by that. China abandoned its communist ideals and changed its philosophy to the capitalist system in Hong Kong. China became more like Hong Kong than Hong Kong became like China. That's why most of the things sold in Wal Mart are made in China.
I found your response to be a little rude. You had a valid point but you might have phrased it better.
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It is not possible to generalise about the whole of HK than it is about any other big city. However the topic of spanking in the home is debated in the print media. And from my own knowledge I think there is a higher proportion of families here where spankings are regularly administered than in the UK or other Western societies. They are both conservative Chinese families and British expats like us who don’t have much time for politically correct views about spanking children.
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(05-30-2019, 12:32 AM)Nancy Wrote: You are absolutely right. The lease on Hong Kong expired in 1997 and it reverted to China. My point was that China was changed by that. China abandoned its communist ideals and changed its philosophy to the capitalist system in Hong Kong. China became more like Hong Kong than Hong Kong became like China. That's why most of the things sold in Wal Mart are made in China.
I found your response to be a little rude. You had a valid point but you might have phrased it better.
I found your knowledge limited. So there.
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That seems unnecessarily rude to me.
Can't we be nice to each other?