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The fact that all the law is written in English, and all court cases are conducted in English also puts the Chinese at a great disadvantage, and maintains, in a very insidious way, the power of the foreigners over
them. Admittedly, interpreters, are provided,
are provided, but they translate for the yi Court, not for the defendant, and the fact that the law is in English only serves to keep the average Chinese, who does not understand ◊ English well enough to comprehend the meaning of legal jargon, in a very unfavour- able position. There is a campaign under way at the moment to encourage
the Government to give the Chinese language equal status with English,
but At da hard to understand how this could over como ghout, and even if Ab did, how it' could bonofit the people, on long ng Hong Kong remains a
colony, and the power structure remains as it is at the moment.
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The fnot that the people' of the colony have no control over their own destinies leads to a frustration syndromo, which Fanon and other
observers of colonial situations have described so lucidly. Fanon talks
of the inturning of violence, and of how people vent their frustrations
on their fellows, instead of fighting against the real source of their frustration, the government, against whom it would be suicidal to fight.
In Hong Kong the incidence of crime, as we have seen, is already much higher, in absolute terms, than in the U.K., while tho rate for murder is also higher than in the U.K. In an effort to reduce the crime rate in Hong Kong the Judiciary has reintroduced corporal punishment, obviously unaware that this would put the criminal in the position of a naughty ¦ little boy bein spanked by his father, or in the position of a schoolboy being caned by the headmaster.- both of which are illustrations of tho rolationship which always oxinta batween a colonizing power and the objects of their colonization. Tho Afro-Asian group in the United Nations havo ample experience of this roletionship, of this omasculating subjection of the colonized people to the "strangely anachronistic authoritarianism" of the colonizing foreigners, and because fix thus relationship the majority. group is deprived of its right to control its own destiny and of its
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right to self-respect, and is kept in an artificial position of immaturity and inferiority, their claim that colonialism is a crime' against' humanity is, to a considerable extent, justified. And so, if you will forgive our temerity we wish you could come to Hong Kong, and live the life of an
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