Overnite stay(12 hrs) in pine rock hotel in san pablo is P600 with ac and attached cr, towel, but no tissue, no tv(with, P700). And the bed is just a super single, not big enuff for 2.
Woke up in the morning, took a walk along the busy street next to the hotel.
He was surprised to find a chinese cemetery, with the gate to it written in chinese.
The chinese came to ph long time ago.like the spanish, they spread all over the philippines. Like chinese elsewhere outside china, they doing their business, engaging in their trades and raising their families, contributing to the growth of the country they live in
In countries like the ph and thailand, they already assimilated with the locals and has wielded significant political power, though they do not acknowledge publicly their chineses rootedness which is commendable, just like the different ethnicities in the usa do not bring their roots to the fore as far as politics are concerned.
But in countries like indo and m'sia, the chinese are an obliquely distinct group(though indo chinese speak bahasa indo), why?
Because of religion? in fact islam and been into china longer than any of these countries, and has converted many chinese,and the religion upholds man as the master over woman, can have 4 wives, all of these teaching should appeal to the male-centric chinese, why the local chinese in these two islamic countries did not take the plunge?
If you look at the muslim distribution in china, most of them are in the inland west. And the immigrants to southeast asia were mostly from the coastal east, and they are strongly rooted to their tao-buddhism. But why they can be converted to christians easier?
Is there something in islam that intrinsically push these chinese away?
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