What? Chinese overseas work together and cooperate?. are you joking tell me you are joking...

Chinese are THE most divided people on earth and we consider each other to be enemies.

Huo Yujiana (Fong Yeun Kap) a Chinese hero first said this in Tianjin in 1909, he was murdered by his own people for stating such a fact. Highly ironic no?.

Infact you take a train to Hong Kong stand and watch in somewhere like Tai Po, the Cantonese people are top of the food chain, then its Hakka people then people from the PRC... if in a small 'modern' city state like HK they cannot achieve unity then what hope for the rest of China?.

My family went to the UK in the 1960s, my dad takes the naive view in that they are all family and won't treat him badly, 50 years of battering and exploitation by his family have as yet still not proven this to him though it is clear to see. Chinese people overseas whether born there or migrants are only ever your friends for as long as you are useful, the moment you cease to be useful you are discarded. I used to be incredibly naive and taught my chinese friends to drive how tro do something, even got them jobs. Once they got what they wanted I was discarded.

However outside of my personal experiences they are divided as they come.

In that whenever something anti chinese appears on TV, in the media or a racist attack occurs there is no ONE voice in which to express anger and or disgust about this.

The UK government blamed the foot and mouth disease on imported chinese meat but when challenged for the evidence did not provide any.

Compare this to say the Muslims or black people who have organisations in which to promote unity, even the Sikhs and hindus have various organisations to protect and promote their interests. Chinese overseas are virtually invisible for this lack of unity and quite frankly these days when people ask if I am Chinese I say no, I instead pretend to be Korean or Japanese as Chinese society is so incredibly twisted.