Comments on: Chinese in Tanzania

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:41:06 +0000

You said that young people are just sitting around without doing any work, right? and that women do house work and work the field? Where does your countrywoman"s customers come from then? I mean there are only a handful of Chinese around and the locals are just wasting time talking instead of making money?

Quit such kinds of generalizations bro. You got a lot porvery and hopelessness in your own country. I have been to Haiko, Shaoyang, Yiyang, Luodi and many other small places of main land China, and I know very well how majority of people are struggling despite the current economic boom that most of Chinese brag about. In the countryside China, many families don't even have toilets and the shit is just thrown to the pigs, do you happen to know that?

Tanzania is on the move, though, like any other developing country, the government needs to spearhead the attainment of basic education, for every one to realize their potential, and that's what your government is still struggling with at home.

You should hurry back there now any open your business, because once the locals open their eyes, I don't see how they could exist with such attitude. Bravo

By: Yiu-cho Chan

Yiu-cho Chan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:15:00 +0000

If you give people the right tools, there’s still no guarantee that they’ll use those tools properly.

Vietnam suffered from a long stretch of brutal colonialism by the French in its recent past and they have the second-fastest-growing economy in Asia now. This is also true of Ethiopia. So I don’t think it has anything to do with history.

By: Marc van der Chijs

Marc van der Chijs — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:19:00 +0000

There is indeed no excuse for sitting around anywhere. Maybe you think it’s politically not correct to observe that this happens more in certain parts of the world? It is a fact that the Chinese are more entrepreneurial than most other people (including Europeans), why is it wrong to say that? Tanzanians are probably more happy with their lifestyle, they certainly smile a lot more than Chinese.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:10:00 +0000

Making excuses for people because of their ethnicity is nothing but soft racism. Young men sitting around doing nothing – there’s no excuse for that anywhere.

By: Marc van der Chijs

Marc van der Chijs — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:08:00 +0000

I don’t think that because of a colonial background people cannot see business opportunities. That’s just finding an excuse for not doing anything now. You give India as an example, but Indians are actually quite entrepreneurial!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:40:00 +0000

Do you really imagine that the men of Tanzania would "see" business opportunities and "money" everywhere?

Remember, it is country suffered from a long stretch of brutal colonialism in it's very recent past, probably most people don't have much of a work ethic or any marketable skills. This same thing can be found throughout Africa, India, SE Asia...

Perhaps you don't know much about Tanzanian history, but you might learn a bit more about your own, sir.

The arrogance! Perhaps you could lend them some of your expertise and capital, show those chaps the proper way to maximize their resources!