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fuel racism. This applies to just about any country.

Even Vietnam isn't vulnerable to racism.

Another aspect of racism is regional racism. A few examples take place in both China and Hong Kong. A good amount of China is basically country sides with the deserts being further west. I constantly talk to this one girl who's Japanese and Chinese named Mona. And Mona is a Canadian-born Chinese. She has a degree in biochemistry and is currently teaching English in Shanghai and prefers this city over Nanjing where she used to live. The stories Mona told me about Nanjing were pretty interesting. She thought Nanjing was a very filthy city from what she told me. Mona even told me she found a woman picking her nose and eating her boogers. The thought of it made me want to gag and vomit.

I have another friend that I talk to also from China in the Tianjin area. I told him what Mona told me what she saw. My friend replied that sadly it's not uncommon. Due to Mona's personal experiences, she doesn't think much about most of the Chinse. And their height was a major turnoff for Mona as well.

There's plenty of territorial racism. Like being racist against a group of Chinese from another area or city. There's also religious persecution at play as well. Since the Communists took over China after World War II, religious persecution has definitely been in play.

I also keep in touch constantly with this one girl named Yuan-Yuan who's currently living in Germany. She's originally from Shanghai. We were talking a good lot about Asian culture and history. I told her about my friend in NYC named Lily who's an ABC (American Born Chinese), who moved to Beijing sometime around last year to be with her fiance. Yuan-Yuan was pretty prejudicial towards people from Beijing. Out of curiousity, I asked her reasons. She simply answered that Beijing was full of "Maoists." In a sense it's pretty understandable. It showed me that racism can also be driven by political differences.

Another interesting aspect is that Taiwan and Hong Kong are populated by Chinese as well. Hong Kong has just returned to Chinese ownership after a lease from Great Britain. What I see on the news is that both Taiwan and Hong Kong are completely different from China. I read further and learned that they're pretty prejudicial from the mainland Chinese.

What really got me is that I read that a good number of Hong Kong residents didn't think much of the Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi and were pretty prejudicial to her. Mainly because

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