What is Real?

After spending close to a week in HK, I'm starting to understand the culture here. Here is a short summary of what I observed so far. As I stated in a pervious post, some things does not change.

1) It is all about making money.
The latest craze is the stock market. With the global public offereing for Bank of China, people line up just to get an application to apply of shares of Bank of China. Also, your success is measured by your career.

2) Free is good.
Another fruit of the materialist culture is the craze for anything that is free. People line up for free oil, free toothpaste, free cookies. Eventhough if it is completely useless to you, if it is free, you need to get it.

3) What is real?
This one is the best one of all, to cap off the fears of this culture. Fake merchadise has been around for a long time. Every Asian family in one way or another owns a fake LV, fake Prada, fake Nike, etc. It is not an issue if it is something you wear. But now, thanks to the greed and the morals of those in China, anything can be fake. Fake soya sauce, fake egg, fake everything.

The news are filled with cases of hospitailization due to fake foodstocks or banned food production practices. Even medical procedures uses illegal medicines (ie. PAAG). People in Hong Kong don't know what is real anymore.


To top it all off, putting these three points I have observed together: People line up for free cookies. Then upon getting the cookies, they realized it was made in China, Guangzhou, and doubt the cookies.

I really feel for the people of Hong Kong. Why spend your life chasing for something and then in the end doubt whether or not you got is real. That why these people need the Truth. The "Real Deal". God, give me strength to share the Truth to these people.