When Mathieu Pierre Youdan reported for The Mainlander that the very same people whose job was to evict impoverished people from their homes and jack up the rent were raising money to produce a documentary about their experiences, many were appalled.
The mainlanders that he says are starting to dominate the new flow of Chinese money into California aren't buying the same things for the moment.
In a voice-over at the beginning of "The Descendants," Matt King George Clooneyy) challenges the myth, endemic among mainlanders, that Hawaii, where he lives, is a paradise on earth.
The Okinawans, who billet more than half the 50,000 American troops in Japan, regarded the mainlanders' insistence that they must house the Americans as a symptom of their second-class citizenship.
More recently, forms of localism that reject the Mainland and mainlanders have emerged.
The complaints in part reflect real problems and in part, perhaps, stereotypes among the middle-class Taiwanese about the backwardness of mainlanders -- biases that are only strengthened by the influx of low-end job seekers.
When continuing efforts to exclude the Taiwanese failed, in 1958 the mainlanders withdrew from the IOC.
Last year, 1,500 Chinese took the company's "Hollywood to Broadway" bus tour, a 20-day cross-country journey intended for mainlanders with stops that included a Las Vegas casino; the bridges of Madison County, Iowa Niagara Fallss; the White House; and the Empire State Building.
Emphasising that the central government "will not step back", the daily points out that the campaign is unlikely to "turn into a crisis in the mainland" as the "majority of mainlanders back the central government's Hong Kong policies".
"It was a big deal for them that the mainlanders couldn't access Wikipedia".
