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Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:14 pm ] |
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Author: | souldealer [ Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:19 pm ] |
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Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:38 am ] |
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Author: | Alan [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:02 pm ] |
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Author: | Tavis [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:09 pm ] |
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Author: | mad [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:05 pm ] |
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Could you please add "Mauritian" to the list? cheers |
Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:47 pm ] |
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Done! Thank you. See home page, we've just reached 50 nationalities! |
Author: | Birdface [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:38 pm ] |
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Who's from Mauritius? Ki Manyer? |
Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:40 pm ] |
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More nationalities keep coming in, almost within minutes of publishing this story on the home page in the Lamma-zine: Greek, Serbian, Bangladeshi (several). More, more! |
Author: | mad [ Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:42 pm ] |
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Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:38 pm ] |
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More emails have come in since publishing this story in the Lamma-zine with even more new nationalities, usually sent by people of that nationality. In fact, it's the most feedback I've received to any Lamma-zine story in quite some time. Great! Qatari, Jamaican, Zambian, Vietnamese, Maldivian, Croatian, Taiwanese; bringing the confirmed total to 60 now! Afghani American Argentinean Australian Austrian Bahaman Bangladeshi Brazilian Canadian Chilean Chinese Croatian Cuban Danish Dutch Ecuadorian Fijian Filipinos Finnish French German Greek Hong Konger Icelandic Indian Indonesian Irish Israeli Italian Jamaican Japanese Malaysian Maldivian Mauritian Mexican Moroccan Nepali New Zealander Norwegian Pakistani Palestinian Polish Qatari Russian Serbian Senegalese Singaporean South African South Korean Spanish Sri-Lankan Swedish Swiss Taiwanese Thai Turks UK Ukrainian Vietnamese Zambian |
Author: | tjungarayi [ Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:08 am ] |
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Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:05 pm ] |
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Well, according to the just released detailed By-Census data from the govt., there are only 847 people living on Lamma who claim English as their "usual", native language, and only 62 other, non-Chinese language speakers. Hard to believe. There must be more than 62 Filipinos living here for sure. Well, anyway, definitely more Brits than Filipinos. By the way, Lamma & Po Toi's population has shrunk from 5,550 five years ago to 5,158, much less now than even Peng Chau Island. |
Author: | Alan [ Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:51 pm ] |
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Census data for Lamma is competely useless. They count villages with one man and a dog as having a population of 100. Thus the ridiculous construction projects in places like Lo Tik, to serve people actually resident there only a few days of the year. Conversely, people living in rented housing in residential areas are often not counted at all. |
Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:03 pm ] |
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Alan, Would you care to elaborate? I just spent an hour going through over 500 pages of statistical tables to find the detailed tables for Lamma. Useless? How to count a small village as 100 people? How not to count easy residential areas and new houses? |
Author: | Alan [ Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:42 pm ] |
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That's the kind of bullshit I heard from the Lands Department when I asked them about the justification for various projects. A lot of people officially resident here really live and work in HK, or even overseas, but keep an address here to get various benefits and be able to vote for their VRs. Conversely, a lot of more transient people who do live here want to stay under the radar for one reason or another, or just can't be bothered to fill out the forms. |
Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:20 pm ] |
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The Guinness World Record idea might be doomed to failure. I've just heard from a Lammaite who has been living in a village of only 3,000 people with 95 nationalities: Serris in France! The reason behind this is that they contain the compounds for Disneyland Paris employees. He wrote about the mix of nationalities: "Mainly European and African because of the high rates of French and English speakers. A few strange ones-we had a guy from Timbuctoo in Mali (no joke) a girl from the Faroe Islands, a lot of Native Americans from Canada, Cambodian refugees, Romanian drug dealers, AWOL British soldiers... all living together and all getting exploited by a fucking rat." |
Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:18 am ] |
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We've been reviving this topic on Facebook, in our new "Lamma Island Hong Kong" group, so let's see if we can beat 60 nationalities this time! So far: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, USA,... 46 countries so far... Plus, should we count UK as 1 or 3 countries (England, Scotland, Wales)? Last time, we counted passports, so UK only. |
Author: | shapogung [ Sun Oct 04, 2015 4:18 pm ] |
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LG...you are still a bit confused about Northern Ireland. Officially it is part of the UK but the people there are not English, Scots or Welsh so you need to include them as well if you are going to dissect the UK into its nationalities ☺. If you ask them, they will say they are from Norn Iron. The Republic of Ireland is another state. A bit like Timor L'este and Indonesia...or Borneo and Sarawak ☺ |
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