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Gaja
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 1 May 2008 00:40:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty,
U choose to be Australian may be for your own advantage does not mean your right on about this.
That depends on what we claim is our goal - especially to Australian authorities. I claimed to want to be Australian and hence that was the right decision for me. But to others who have difficulty with other cultures it would be a safety factor to keep Sri Lankan nationality as well. It all depends on what we seek. It would however be wrong to say that you want to merge with wider Australians but in action you cling to Sri Lanka also - anyway you can.
I did not plan it either way. It just happened because I am that kind of person - totally committed when I make the decision.
SL's prefer to keep their SL passport too even when they get overseas passport for their own identity as SL.
They may need the physical verification - like women who carry their maiden name in the middle. I did not need such physical level reassurances or reminders. I believe/know I am doing more for Sri Lanka - much more - than these dual passport holders known to me.
what was that supposed to mean..No one gets a Passport like in Australia just cos you stay and work in HK. so yes..it is purely for money..but after 7 years when you get a permanent ID, you also can apply for a HK passport but the requirement is you have to give up the SL passport
It is very similar to what you have chosen to do in Australia..does that make you as you put it 'one of those who is not sure of your own sexuality..'
U made a choice to be an Australian..why the same rule is not applied to HK passport..Pls explain what is the difference between what you choose to do and what we have in HK.
In Australia I made the choice to belong fully at the physical level. Those who get it largely for status and security but their hearts and minds are in Sri Lanka - are the parallels of your HK migrants - whose minds and hearts are in HK but they are legally Sri Lankan. That is all those who are there for higher purposes than money.
Hence the reference to sexuality. It is to accommodate these groups to divide their wealth equally that we have dual citizenship. The law firms up the mind to give us self confidence in our chosen path.
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Edited By - Gaja - 1 May 2008 00:47:17 GMT |
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 1 May 2008 00:41:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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Andy
I am doing great..Today is a holiday (May Day) tomorrow I am wearing RED and going to hold a banner saying 'TIBET is CHINA' as the Olympics torch passes trough HK..lolz
How ru doing mate?
I agree with your comments on checking etc..specially at airport. It is hard to actually understand whether they do it for our own safety or simply cos we are brown and we fall into that category.(looks a terrorist)
Let me tell you a TRUE story..I hold a SL passport but I am a Permanent resident of HK. That means I don't use my PP to leave HK.I just go through with my Permanent ID card.
Last year, when i came from SL on Cathay and as I got out of the plane..in the tube, they stopped all the brown people and checking the PP (not at the Immigration counter but in the tube itself..they were also video taping all of us.)
I refused to even stop..but they insisted, and my initial reaction was why aren't you checking the whites and Chinese in the flight..I still refused to show my PP cos i don't need my PP to go through HK immigration.
I wanted to see the supervisor cos i felt it was discrimination..later i when they came to know I am a HK ID holder they took me to the supervisor and explained saying there are a lot who dump the SL pp and asking for refugee status and they check and put them back in the same flight back to SL.I refused to accept their explanation saying why can't there be other illegals in the flight why only brown people..why are we video taped etc etc..They did apologize to me but the procedure followed for almost 6 months.
Edited By - Berty - 1 May 2008 00:43:06 GMT |
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 1 May 2008 00:50:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty
Finally back home after two weeks of traveling . Living out of hotels is getting old . Was in Indiana and Chicago for a bit .
I hear what You are saying . I mean every time I get near a check point Shoes are off everything is off so that it is simple for them . I still see people here arguing with the TSA guys .
I remember when I was in Singapore we had a bunch of workers we hired from SL and Bangladesh coming to work on one of our projects . The Singapore authorities sent half of them back on the same flights they came in no questions asked . When we asked them they said that they dont have to give us (our company) any explanation .
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1 May 2008 00:51:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Andyprem,
Am I saying the Sri Lankan police is better , No . But they have to be vigilant in the times we live in . So when I spent 3 hours getting through security in Katu or New York I dont huff and puff but let them do their job.
Likewise I also attributed the searches as being my contribution to the security of our country. But then when it comes to safety and security issues - I am not given the higher status as a higher investor but am being 'told' what to do by those who did not have the answers in the first place.
If not for 9/11, you would not have accepted these searches. If you had invested proactively in security YOU would have contributed to preventing 9/11.
Likewise the Sri Lankan war
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1 May 2008 00:52:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty
I dont know much of Tibet's history but is there any fact to TIBET is CHINA ? LOL |
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1 May 2008 00:53:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja
I think there are different reasons for SL's going overseas
There may be difference reason for Tamils and Sinhalese too..
Let me list a few (if I miss or you want to add..u can help me here)
Tamil
1) Left SL after personal negative experience (eg:- 1983 riots) They do not want to go back and what they want is a permanent place to live their life. In this case they prefer like what you did..just one passport of that country !!
2)for making money..like going to ME countries or even HK or any other Far east countries.
3) Children's future
Sinhalese
reasons 2 and 3 may be the same..
reason 1 may be not applicable unless political reasons or for some reason they prefer to stay abroad but keep the SL passport in case they have to return..
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1 May 2008 00:57:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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Andyprem,
When we asked them they said that they dont have to give us (out company) any explanation
At least they do not pretend to be democratic!
By the way - I would have used the word 'group' instead of you word 'bunch' - especially on May Day. That gives you away - that you want to step into their shoes one day - the shoes of those who asked you to remove your shoes.
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1 May 2008 00:58:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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I am not given the higher status as a higher investor but am being 'told' what to do by those who did not have the answers in the first place.
If not for 9/11, you would not have accepted these searches. If you had invested proactively in security YOU would have contributed to preventing 9/11.
Gaja - This may be news to you but that is how govts work everywhere in the world . They are put in place by the people and they do the best they can . Sometimes some people will disagree but life has to go on.
As for 9/11 , Coming form Sri Lanka I would have accepted those searches even if 9/11 would have not happened !.
My first reaction on 9/11 was 'NOT AGAIN NOT HERE' |
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DVD - He built a army from zero
Velu is great that way ,it was more fun for him than smuggling.And he used the race as an issue for war and collected immense money by igniting a big fire among GOSL and Tamils.
But fortunately not all the Tamils are involved,but only the opportunists who sit in safehavens who fuel the fire further.
The trapped one has to go thru the dirty command of Velu weather they like or not.
The guys praise Velu are never in the battle field or in Srilanka,they add fuel and kill more of their kind.
Those are the ones waiting for a chance to become the rulers over the dead bodies of forced fighters on their behalf.
They should remember,that the day will turn upside down for them to pay for deaths of brainwashed or otherwise forced to fight disadvantaged class who are in captivity of the giant crook who runs this death game with their malpractised google wealth and support.
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1 May 2008 01:04:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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By the way - I would have used the word 'group' instead of you word 'bunch' - especially on May Day. That gives you away - that you want to step into their shoes one day - the shoes of those who asked you to remove your shoes.
There is no MAY DAY here lol
???? you are delusional . Why would I want to step in to a shoes of the TSA officer ? To get paid 10 times lower than
I do now to strip search people ? |
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