How come we never hear about it in the anglo press the same way we do about Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc.?
the portuguese gave it right back on their own accord after kicking the fascists out of power. basically no controversy to be had, whereas the Brits cling to their colonies for dear life (and basically arranged a stay behind anti communist bloc in HK)
people gamble in Macau and it has weird vegas type buildings
The Portuguese had actually been trying to give the island back to China for years until the British handover of Hong Kong at which point they went to the Chinese and said if you're taking Hong Kong you have to take Macau.
Now Macau is convenient for China as it allows the tax revenue from gambling but the crime from gambling doesn't spill over to the mainland much
Now Macau is convenient for China as it allows the tax revenue from gambling but the crime from gambling doesn’t spill over to the mainland much
Here’s hoping for a Macau Fidel Castro to take back the island
Monkeys paw, it ends up being a brand new Michael Brooks impression of right-wing Fidel Castro
and over 100x the number of people from HK living in the anglo countries compared to people from Macau.
I'm just a bumpkin community reporter so take this with a grain of salt, but my take is that Macau just isn't hostile enough to Beijing for western press to care about.
E.g., when Hong Kong's new government banned that pro-independence newspaper, I knew editors who were salivating to run every story they could on it. We fetishize "free speech" as the ultimate public virtue, so any story about public censorship makes for a great good vs evil narrative that American readers will lap right up.
People like gambling, you put a hundred different people from different backgrounds in a vacuum you would find no measurable difference between them when it comes to liking gambling. Also gambling should be banned.
Yeah wtf is up with a :reddit-logo:-tier take like this
The Chinese people love gambling, I know this from all the HK movies I've watched :galaxy-brain:
some cultures do approve of gambling more than others. That being said gambling is illegal in mainland China and has been since Mao so there must be some anti gambling sentiment in Chinese culture
I feel like casino and institutional gambling should be banned, establishments of gambling and gambling tournaments. Lotteries are repulsive.
I have no issue with small-scale personal gambling, betting & games - plus it would not be feasible to stop these. The problems come from profit seeking entities getting involved (pay day lenders and loan sharks that prey on people gambling addictions, online scams, casinos and other institutions that make the gambling psychologically addictive and rig the games to always be in their favor, etc)
Huge difference between some old grandmas playing cards outside and betting petty cash vs. a psychologically addicted elderly woman giving her social security checks to the slots
I'd be interested in playing it online, especially if there were familiar people to play with.
Hexbear multi-gaming clan when?
Christopher Columbus was Portuguese. The Eye-talians are stealing our valor
for real, Columbus should be a shame on the Genoese
The Italian flag is just the Portuguese flag experiencing continental drift
I'd imagine since the local elites in Macau are in the gambling industry and needs the traffic from the mainland to flow more than HK (or rather relies on it for the income more), an independence movement would fuck with the money more than just playing along.
