the wealthy Chinese exodus

Pippen visited China prior to the Beijing Games and left with vivid memories of its culture and people, and believes that there IS going to be a massive exodus of wealthy Chinese immigrants heading our way in the coming years.

"We had been warned about air pollution in Beijing and believe me it was worse than we expected," says Pippen. "I realize that our cities at home cleaned up when industries off-shored to China, but it strikes me as a terrible bargain for China. No wonder so many wealthy Chinese are emigrating”

“People here are dropping dead like flies from respiratory diseases,” says Pippen. “It's not smoking that's killing them; it's industrial and vehicular air pollution."

"Today, China has the world’s fastest growing economy and four times the population of the US," says Pippen. "Per capita consumption rates in China are about 11 times below ours, but once they rise to our level -- as they will do soon -- most economists and environmentalists predict catastrophic consequences (least of which is going to be expanding girths) and that's no laughing matter."

“But it is not just the catastrophic consequences of China’s fast growing economy and population that will spearhead this exodus,” says Pippen. “It is a belief, held by the Party and its wealthy supporters, that their people were the first migrants -- migrating throughout the Americas and the regions along the Pacific Rim, becoming the Indian tribes in the Americas and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific – and consequently that all land once settled by ethnic Chinese rightly belongs to China.”

“Are wealthy Chinese buying up land near you?”

Read more by Pippen on China:

Old and New China

the miraculous Chinese

three races, one perfect?

America first settled by Chinese

fat figures of fun in China

alienated in China

China's Ancient Roots

three races, one perfect?

On a recent visit to China Pippen spoke to an educated Chinese gentleman who, being quite aware of the western belief that we all originated in Africa, steadfastly held to a belief that there were three races and that the Chinese are the superior race.

"I gained a very strong impression that the Chinese consider themselves to be different in a superior way from the other races on earth," says Pippen. "One Chinese gentleman actually told me that originally there were three races -- white, black and yellow -- and all were baked like bread. The white race was undercooked, the black race overcooked and the yellow race was perfect."

"Most Chinese do not believe that they, like everyone else on earth, originated in Africa," says Pippen. "Instead, they believe that they originated independently in the land of China, with the Peking Man of Zhoukoudian representing a phase in their unique evolution."

“He believed that the white race also originated independently in Europe,” says Pippen, “and that only the black race came from Africa.”

“With more and more Chinese emigrating to the west,” says Pippen, “I do hope they don’t bring their ‘superior’ racial beliefs with them because we have enough of our own, thank you very much!”

Read more by Pippen on China:

Old and New China

the miraculous Chinese

America first settled by Chinese

the wealthy Chinese exodus

fat figures of fun in China

alienated in China

China's Ancient Roots

America first settled by Chinese

Pippen points out that new research in China is showing not only that the Chinese have cultural roots going back more than a million years, but also that they have a civilization of at least ten thousand years – pre-dating the traditional period of five thousand years which was responsible for a massive migration of Chinese to the Americas.

"The Chinese assert that their nation is far superior and far older than others,” says Pippen. “"Their civilization -- not that of Sumer or Egypt -- was the first and that during the thriving and prosperous Tang Dynasty it was at the peak of the world, the center of world civilization, no other civilization compared to it."

“They claim that during their long history their people were the first migrants -- migrating throughout the Americas and the regions along the Pacific Rim -- becoming the Indian tribes in the Americas and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific."

“Looking at these people today in those areas,” says Pippen, “it is easy to see these ancient resemblances.”


Read more by Pippen on China:

Old and New China

the miraculous Chinese

three races, one perfect?

the wealthy Chinese exodus

fat figures of fun in China

alienated in China

China's Ancient Roots

communist immigrants

In Desiree's upmarket gated community the unthinkable has happened. Her new neighbors are immigrants raised in China under Mao's regime and while they've obviously overcome their dear leader's preaching in relation to austerity they still have hangups about smoking and treat her residence as if it were an opium den and its smoking occupants like white trash.

"They turn up their little noses in undisguised disgust when they see my husband or I smoking," says Desiree, "and while I don't want to single them out on racial grounds, I need to point out that our other neighbors don't smoke, and don't like it, but treat us with the utmost respect as we do them whatever habits or beliefs they have that we don't like."

"In the wider community, of course, there are rabid anti-smoking idiots," says Desiree, "but I just didn't expect this sort of blatant intolerance to hit close to home. We're hard hitting civil libertarians around here, not conforming communists."

"As I understand it, within three years of Mao coming to power in 1949 he successfully solved China's massive problem of opium addiction by shooting the dealers and any addicts who refused to quit their habit," says Desiree. "That former opium addicts then took up smoking tobacco -- turning China into the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer -- was not exactly an accident because Mao had a thing about opium, not tobacco."

"I guess my neighbors remember those days and see all smokers as former opium addicts," sighs Desiree. "And if more and more Mao-raised Chinese immigrants are coming into our country to escape China's tobacco fuelled economy then the anti-smoking idiots in the wider community are going to welcome their intolerant attitudes with glee."

"You see, just like Mao had a thing about opium, not tobacco, our current leaders have a thing about tobacco, not alcohol, and it's no accident either that drinking has increased under their regimes," says Desiree. "I'm not just making the point about people being placed in a position where they simply replace one drug with another -- meaning that their problem with addiction is never addressed -- I also want to point out the dictatorial and arbitrary nature of enforced social changes like the anti-smoking campaign."

"Mao could very well have turned the Chinese into a coffee rather than a tea drinking nation," says Desiree. "That he actually liked drinking tea, and preferred it to coffee, was the sole criterion upon which the tea industry in China was spared annihilation."

"The opium industry had a checkered history in China, wars were fought over it and it had western links, particularly with the capitalistic British, and this is what Mao hated about it," says Desiree. "He wasn't interested in promoting the health benefits of giving up opium smoking, he just wanted to obliterate all traces of a western capitalistic trade upon which so many of his people were dependent."

"Also, by shooting the opium dealers and any addicts who refused to quit their habit Mao didn't have to resort to the sort of tactics that the current anti-smoking campaigners use," laughs Desiree. "No doubt there was a negative campaign against opium smokers being decadent capitalist scum worthy of social scorn and humiliation -- just as there now is about smokers -- but there was obviously no need in his regime for a proliferation of new industries and organizations catering for the needs of people wanting to quit their habit."

"With their lives on the line, and their supply cut, opium addicts gave up their stuff cold turkey without opium replacement patches and counselling -- and took up smoking tobacco," says Desiree, "and while I am most certainly not advocating that any government should repeat Mao's solution for any addiction, I am most definitely demonstrating that the current proliferation of new industries and organizations catering for the needs of people wanting to quit cigarette smoking are SCAMS and that most smokers who quit do so cold turkey by replacing one drug with another -- usually alcohol."

"As in Mao's time, the problem of addiction remains unaddressed," explains Desiree. "What makes us addicted -- if not to opiates, then to tobacco, alcohol, food, sex, gambling, fringe religions or whatever?"

"Personally, I believe that addiction is perfectly normal on the spectrum of normality," says Desiree. "It makes sense to me that people should maximize whatever makes them feel good. Chocolate makes me feel good, but eating too much gives me a headache and makes me vomit so I stick to whatever makes me feel good without bad consequences -- and that's smoking. If that makes me an addict, then that's okay with me, but I guess my Mao-raised neighbors would prefer that I stick to chocolate."

"I most certainly do not believe that addiction is a crime requiring punishment," says Desiree, "and I also find it difficult to believe that addiction is a disease-- brain wiring gone wrong or whatever --and needs a new industry and a new government department to be built around it."

"And I find it particularly disingenuous that alcohol addiction -- alcoholism -- is put on a pedestal above all other addictions and given a special, almost holy status," says Desiree. "Because alcohol is the drug of choice of most of our current politicians -- and some of them would have the liquor industry to thank for their positions -- it is understandable (not applaudable) that they would want to make it everyone's drug of choice -- on tap 24/7 -- but to separate the worst aspects of alcoholism from the worst aspects of other addictions and make out that alcohol is somehow more acceptable is crazy."

"All addictions, if taken to extremes, have nasty consequences," says Desiree. "Come to think of it, doing anything to extreme -- even drinking too much water -- can kill you."

"I don't believe Mao deliberately promoted tobacco smoking by banning opium in the same manner that our current masters are blatantly promoting alcohol over smoking -- but maybe he did," says Desiree. "Anyway, already in China the effects of the opium embargo are taking shape in the enormous growth of other drug addictions which, in good communist fashion, are receiving an appropriate draconian solution -- brain surgery to remove the pleasure centre."

"Okay, heroin addiction eradicated, too bad that your ability to derive pleasure from anything else has also been removed."

"In promoting addiction as a disease this is exactly the path that our government is leading us to, aided and abetted by Mao-raised immigrants" says Desiree. "Is this what we want?"

"Most addicts -- of whatever substance -- are 100% functional, leading mainstream lives, performing delicate operations in hospitals, debating points of law in courts and governments, and delivering the mail," says Desiree. "To put it bluntly, we are all addicts. Some of us are better at handling our addictions and their health consequences than others, some of us have easily concealed addictions and some of us have addictions -- like smoking -- that aren't easily concealed and, as such, annoy others."

"So, guess who gets to decide when an addiction is so horrible that its addicts deserve a hate campaign, a lobotomy or the firing squad?" asks Desiree. "The addicts of other substances, that's who!"

"I've always been amused by the righteous drunks and coke heads who sit in judgement of others on medical boards, legal courts and government benches," says Desiree. "It reminds me of Mao himself who, unbeknown to the millions who practised the austerity he preached in his little Red Book, was stimulating his pleasure centre to the max in every conceivable way, 24/7."

"Bearing in mind that my Mao-raised neighbors most certainly didn't earn their fabulous wealth toiling in the rice paddies -- and are likely to have a myriad of strange addictions," adds Desiree, "the next time they turn their little noses up at me or my husband for smoking, I might overcome my dislike of snooping and ask them some very prying questions about their past life in communist China."

Desiree's story first appeared as mao's addiction solution

moving out of africa

500,000 BC is the earliest dating of fossil remains of early man found outside of Africa. This was Sinanthropus lantianensis and surprisingly these fossils were found in China!

From 1,000,000 BC (the dating of Transvaal Man in southern Africa) to 500,000 BC (the dating of China Man and other hominid fossils) - there is a startling gap of 500,000 years in the human fossil record that indicates that this was the period of the greatest migration that has ever taken place.

Early man was on the move - to all corners of the Earth - using land mass bridges that just don't exist any more.

We know from DNA evidence that we are all related to the earliest African hominid fossils, so if our ancestors migrated from Africa to China - either crossing to Spain from Morocco in Northwest Africa and trekking through Europe; or crossing to the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt in the Northeast and trekking through the Middle East - why is there no record of their existence in the lands they traversed?

We know that there was a massive Ice Age in the northern lands that did not recede until 12,000 BC - after which human enterprise in that part of the world developed by leaps and bounds - so it would appear to be unlikely, but not impossible, that our ancestors made the trek to China through Spain.

Assuming that they trekked to Asia through the Middle Eastern lands, what happened to their remains along the way?

The earliest human fossil in the Middle Eastern lands was Neanderthaloid Man, dated 120,000 BC, and discovered in Israel. This is thousands of years later than what one might expect to account for the migration out of Africa towards Asia.

Interestingly, the earliest human fossil found in Europe was Caucasoid Heidelberg Man - Homo heidelbergensis - discovered in Germany and dated 450,000 BC. This, too, is much later than what one might expect to account for the migration out of Africa towards Asia - we are looking for human fossils dated between 1,000,000 BC and 500,000 BC - but it does indicate that migration did take place through Europe, and that it was the northwest coast Africans who led the migration out of Africa through Spain (just like they do in modern times, but without the need for boats).

Assuming that they trekked to Asia through Spain and Europe, we are still left with the question: what happened to their remains along the way?

The easiest solution to this problem is to assume that because that part of the world became the most heavily vegetated - and populated - in later years, the remains of our earliest ancestors are totally inaccessible, buried under mountainous layers of forests and debris.

To speculate that the wild animals consumed all of their remains, leaving none for us to find, raises the question why they would do this outside Africa, but not in African itself?

Did they throw their dead into the sea? Although customs about what to do with the dead did not emerge until much later in our evolution - the oldest known human burial site being in the Shanidar cave, northern Iraq, c. 60,000 BC - it is possible that those who trekked to China took the bones of their dead with them to the new land as some sort of primitive ancestor rite pre-dating a later Chinese custom.

However, considering the scarcity of food, a more likely explanation is that hunger forced them to eat their dead and break their bones into pieces - as many cultures still do today in respect of animal bones - in order to obtain nourishment from marrow. In desperate times, even modern man resorts to cannibalism.

Like most questions in history - especially concerning ancient times - there are no easy answers.