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Post by jefe on Sept 17, 2007 9:26:14 GMT -5
Uhm, get your facts straight too, Miaim. 1. Hong Kong can be considered a semi-democracy with a directly elected legislature when it was handed to the Chinese in 1997. On the other hand, most of Hong Kong's economic development occurred before it became a semi-democracy, I give you that; You obviously do not live in HK.
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Post by jefe on Oct 3, 2004 10:09:27 GMT -5
Chances are that I might be send to the Thai-Burmese border and get killed. They would be more than happy to send half-whitey to the frontlines. Don't laugh too hard. I just read in "Being Eurasian:Across racial divides" about how the British sent an all-Eurasian regiment to the front line to resist the Japanese in HK. All but 2 were killed. The British had no problem sacrificing these "British" subjects.
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Post by jefe on Sept 30, 2004 2:14:08 GMT -5
Hey Jefe, I don't have the entire details handy on Belize since I didn't end up investing there. A guy I met is trying to develop a resort there. Anyways, apparently the Belize gov't has zero residency requirements and open to multiple citizenship. I heard Costa Rica has similar standards. Sorry I dont have more info handy but i'm sure a google search would yield a wealth of info. I found some Belize information here www.ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/entry.htmlYou apparently do not have to be resident in Belize, but it appears that you have to apply in person. So, it might take 1-2 visits plus US$50,000 for a whole family. I also read that Costa Rica used to have an investor citizenship program, but the USA has been cracking down on these countries to disallow. Regarding the HKID situation, I got the ¡¥***¡¦ (which should be a ¡§full¡¨ HKID) because I could prove that I was of Chinese descent (my parents¡¦ marriage certificate says that my father is Chinese), but I don¡¦t think I can prove that my father was a Chinese citizen at my birth. There may be other ways, but it would require some legal shenanigans. BTW, It should not be related to whether your mom or Dad is Chinese ¡V To get the ¡¥***¡¦, you have to prove Chinese blood on either side of your parents. To get the China Travel Pass or SAR passport, you have to prove that you are a permanent resident and eligible for Chinese citizenship. You can be eligible for Chinese nationality if either of your parents were a Chinese national at the time of your birth, and this includes HK-born or Macau-born persons of Chinese blood. If your parents had another nationality at the time of your birth (as in my case), then you are not automatically eligible. If you were not born in HK / China / Taiwan, then they might approve of your application but force you to renounce your other nationality. This was Thursday¡¦s concern and one reason why she did not complete her application for the Travel Pass. My colleague's wife was born in Cambodia. At age 3 her family moved to HK. Later on, they immigrated to Canada and got Canadian nationality. She and some family members returned to HK. She was refused an SAR passport and China Travel Pass. But after her father got his HK permanent residency and SAR passport, her application was approved without having to give up her Canadian passport. I might have been able to secure that route if my father had not died on me first. You know, rules are screwy.
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Post by jefe on Sept 21, 2004 6:02:22 GMT -5
I guess Ive been obsessed with going to California since junior high and still havent been! You don't need a USA passport to go to california. Any of the visa free access passport will be fine. You have a UK passport, right?
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Post by jefe on Sept 21, 2004 6:00:51 GMT -5
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Post by jefe on Sept 21, 2004 5:57:33 GMT -5
yeah, my mom has called the consulate in Frankfurt already.. but not concerning dual-citizenship.. I'm considering moving to the Phils and I consequently also have to go to college there.. they said I'd need a student visa.. so now my mom's gotta write a letter to the embassy in berlin.. Phils. allows ex-Filipinos to reinstate their citizenship if they had renounced to acquire another nationality. They do not force you to renounce your acquired nationality to reinstate your Philippine nationality, which implies that they permit dual nationality. Germany requires foreigners to renounce their foreign nationality to acquire German nationality. However, if you are already a German national, you will not have to renounce it to reinstate Philippine nationality. However, if you do not renounce your German nationality to reinstate Philippine nationality, you will be a German national (not Filipino) while in Germany and while travelling under a German passport. This might not be a problem for you. So, the trick is to reinstate Filipino nationality while you are able to do so while you are a German national.
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Post by jefe on Sept 21, 2004 5:51:51 GMT -5
If anyone's interested in having another passport (just for the hell of it) you can get one from Belize by investing or co-investing in property there. Rob, let me know about Belize. I am looking for another country to join. Does Belize have residency requirements for citizenship? Does Belize allow dual citizenship? (it probably does if its requirements are not so strict). IS St. Kitts a good place? Are there any other good countries to immigrate to? I am willing to learn their language (if I havent¡¦ already). The only thing I can apply for now is Chinese nationality in HK, but it would mean that I have to renounce the USA passport (which I would consider if I could get a passport from a 3rd country). I know that the Philippines have officially permitted dual citizenship since 2003. Just pop into any consulate and show them your documents and pay the fee.
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Post by jefe on Sept 21, 2004 5:49:22 GMT -5
I've already got British passport, but I can also get two other passports; HK and Canadian! I can get HK passport (actually it's ID) because my mum was born there and Canadian passport because my mum have two brothers with Canadian passports, so we can easily get a family passport as well. The only problem with the HK ID Card is that you'll have to travel to HK at least every three years. That's what my school friend told me years ago when she got her HK ID Card. In HK, getting a passport and getting an ID card are completely separate things. In HK, there is a difference between getting an ID card, being a permanent resident (of which there are two categories with our without ¡¥***¡¦) and a Chinese national. You can be one without being the other. For example, I have a permanent ID card with ¡¥***¡¦ but not a Chinese national. Since your mom was born in HK, you might be able to get an HKID, probably with a ¡¥***¡¦ (which signifies of Chinese descent). If you were not born in HK, you might not satisfy the requirements for permanent residency unless you live here continuously for seven years. Regarding Chinese nationality, that depends if your retained her Chinese nationality after you were born whether she would be able to confer that to you. For those that immigrated to the UK, it is easier to claim Chinese nationality if your mom never renounced it. If you are a HK permanent resident and a Chinese national, then there is no requirement to return to HK every 3 years. If you can get a 2nd or 3rd passport, I strongly urge you to go and do it.
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Post by jefe on Sept 14, 2004 8:34:06 GMT -5
I am trying to figure out how to do this now actually. I would take triple or quadruple citizenship if I could. I would pick at least one country that is unknown (one of those small Caribbean republics) as well as a couple of major powers. Parents should think about that when their kids are born and try to give them multiple citizenships. Advantages: - work and live and study for as long as you like in diferent countries without having to pay for the right to stay, and enjoy full citizenship priviledges. - choose the best passport for travel. Want to go to Cuba? Don't use your USA passport (on 2nd thought, many countries charge triple or quadruple for visas for USA passport holders -- it sucks. ) Maybe a passport in a Muslim country is better in other majority muslim countries. A UK or Australian passport would not be good. Disadvantages - If you do get into trouble, or if you are politically incorrect in the country that claims you as a citizen, your other nationality may not be able to bail you out. - If you must serve in the military -- you might have to do it in more than one country. - you might be taxed in more than one country - it doesn't prevent you from being treated like a foreigner.
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Post by jefe on May 24, 2004 9:19:14 GMT -5
YES!!!! My father's family was Chinese / Chinese-American and my mother was German/French / other Euro southerner. Yet, being mistaken as Filipino or part-Filipino has happened many many times. In NY, I was approached in Times Square to act in play about Filipino history I went for the audition and they asked me to do it right away -- play the brother of someone already chosen. Later on, I went to the reading and found out why. The oher guy was a dead ringer for my own brother (I mean 90% in looks and attitude -- I was shocked ) He was Filipino / Swiss background. Filipinos in NY told me that they remembered seeing me at UP and wanted to know which "batch" I was in. They did not believe that, at that time, I had never been to the Philippines. I lived in a neighborhood that went from 0% Filipino to 30% Filipino in less than 3 years. People came up and asked me "Pilipino ka ba?" and I responded "Hindi, ikaw?" Boy, were they confused! ;D esp., since I understood what they said in Tagalog. In the Philippines, I had many people mistake for local mestizo. In fact, in most countries, most people treat me like a foreigner. But in the Philippines, it seemed like most thought I was a local and were shocked to learn that I was not. I do have a Filipino-American godmother (ninang) and my father's aunt migrated to the Philippines, but I have no Filipino ancestry, and had never been to the Philippines until I was over age 30 already. But my father did not look like typical Chinese. He often could pass as Filipino or Thai or southeast Asian. Even here in HK, I have Filipinos ask me, "So, which of your parents is Filipino?" But when I was studying Japanese in New York at two different cultural institutes and went to some of the receptions held by them, both part-Japanese EAs and Japanese would ask me which one of my parents was Japanese. I guess people try to come up with an explanation that fits the situation. In the USA, I was NEVER mistaken as anything with Anglo background (Hispanic, French, Filipino, Vietnamese, but not English or Anglo). But in HK, may be 20-25% mistake me as English and another 20-25% think that I am at least part English. British culture is not something I am highly exposed to, and not something that I am particularly attracted to either. So I tell the people in HK that they are (were) British -- not me.
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Post by jefe on Oct 8, 2007 9:55:37 GMT -5
Liking someone, and sexual attraction to them is not the same thing.
Do you equally have trouble comprehending how a gay man could say, prefer to socialize with women and dislike most men, but still feel attracted sexually to males?
I think a fair number of straight men do not particularly care that much for women.
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Post by jefe on Oct 8, 2007 10:04:49 GMT -5
Whenever people go on about keeping the race pure, etc I start to get images of inbreed people for some reason. It just scares me when people talk like that. A friend of mine that happens to be Jewish told me although she was lucky and not a product of inbreeding her other cousins were and most of them had major health issues all in the name to keep their Jewish blood pure. I'm not sure what sect she is from. Outbreeding is also genetically risky. Deleterious genes are removed from the population with inbreeding -- their carriers fail to reproduce themselves. However, hybrids may be healthy, but carry unhealthy genes, which now REMAIN in the population. So, instead of undesirable genes being bred out of a population, they are retained in a hybrid population, unless it eventually becomes isolated itself.
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Post by jefe on Oct 8, 2007 10:21:35 GMT -5
The country where we are born defines our nationality, not our genetic racial background. Not necessarily. Different countries have different nationality rules and even if it does dictate your nationality, the reality may still be different. I remember the old EAN moderator Synrg -- His mother was from Vietnam, his father was from Minnesota. Yet he was born in Korea and moved to Taiwan at a young age. After university in the USA, he relocated to Shanghai. I really doubt that being born in Korea says anything about his nationality.
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Post by jefe on May 3, 2007 8:10:04 GMT -5
I often eat salad with chopsticks.
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Post by jefe on Dec 4, 2006 11:49:03 GMT -5
It really sucks when Eurasians and Asians born and raised in the West get asked by white folks and sometimes by others "Where are you from." If you're born in Australia, the U.S.A and or Canada or any of the South American countries then that is your Nationality. Is it better for a Eurasian born and raised in an Asian country and to have native-born citizenship in that country to be asked by others in that country, whether Asian or not, (some of which may not be native born) "Where are you from."? or "When will you go back home."?
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