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March 31, 2005
The Lychee Linguistic Divide
Simon was complaining about the quality gap between the average Hong Kong blogger and the average Singaporean blogger. I had written a comment on it but it refused to submit, so I'm going via the TrackBack route. ;)
I imagine that the really good HK anglo-blogosphere is already pretty much interconnected and well aware of each other, but nobody's successfully bridged the gap with the HK sino-blogosphere. Personally, I've found this to be frustrating because I feel that I'm missing out on a lot (plus it'd probably help my written Chinese skills!).
I just read the blogs that ESWN mentioned, and yes, they are great. But they're also very independent efforts: you don't see the smattering of links commonly seen in English blogs. The entries are more episodic and reflective, and while I really don't mind the style, it certainly isn't helping awareness propagation.
From what little I understand, English is sufficiently embedded as a part of Singaporean culture that I doubt you're going to miss out a lot by looking outside it (it's essentially the lingua franca). All you expats living in HK would probably know that not knowing Chinese means you probably are missing a large chunk of the whole story.
And that probably goes back to why you (Simon) can't find as many decent HK bloggers.
Posted by Kelvin at March 31, 2005 1:00 PM
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