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[quote=CHETWYND,38401]Hi Griz,
I dont wish to carry this discussion on to infinity.

In fact I am not a total outsider. I am married to a Chinese woman. I have two chinese children (my wife's by her first marriage) and I spend as much time in China every year as I do elsewhere.

Furthermore, as Chris has pointed out these kind of issues cross national boundaries. I consider myself to be a citizen of the world first. It was carpetbaggers like me who stopped the trade in Ivory (fuelled largely by Chinese carvers and jewellery makers). It was carpetbaggers like me who helped to stop the decimation of the worlds whales. It was carpetbaggers like me who fought in the streets and got bloodied to change the Apartheid system in South Africa. It was carpetbaggers like me who helped to stop the French Nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Maybe you would consider being a carpetbagger yourself? Next time your'e in Chengdu check out the bear rescue centre where brown bears are rescued from bear bile farms. In fact, you can take a shortcut and look at the website www.animalsasia.org and have a look at what is being done to bears in China right now.

I think it would be a great place to start for a nouveau carpetbagger! :)

Sit on your hands and change nothing. Become a carpetbagger amd make this a better world for all who share this planet.

No hard feelings. Hope you have a nice day.

Steve[/quote]

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