Quote Originally Posted by scott&ligaya View Post
Hi Jane82 and welcome to the forum,
just an observation, my wife and I met and spent the last 5 years in Hong Kong. The expat population is an insight into racial harmony. I will give you an example, our regular diving/running group met at the same pub on Fridays after work and consisted of the following, 3 British/filipina couples, 2 British/HK chinese couples, one Canadian/ Canadian Chinese couple, One US couple, One US/Korean couple, and three singletons one Japanese female, one Norwegian male and one Filipina plus an Aussie and a Kiwi/Thai couple. Wow you can imagine the possibility for frictions, cultural mis interpretations, jokes, whatever but somehow being in an alien environment pulls everyone together and because we were all foreigners except two HK ladies maybe we just all got on.

Toks is so right when he says it is the personalitys and attitudes count and how we relate to each other that is important. Colour and race arguements are just completely disruptive and unhelpful.

I love celebrating our differences and our house here is an eclectic mix of stuff/memories from all over place we have collected.

welcome again to the forum
Thank you for the welcome Scott and say hello for me to your wife Ligaya.

Scanning through the rest of the forum which I found a few useful insights on what I've also been experiencing over the past decade.