Speaking of decolonization
-
It’s safe for work!!!
******click to show -
@George-K that’s not safe for work!!!!
-
Actually maybe mine isn’t safe for work. Maybe someone in the ******* government is reading this
-
Renauda got it - Macau was handed over from Portugal to China in 1999. IIRC, it was December 31st symbolically, ending 500 years of European colonization of Asia.
I was there maybe 7 years later and found no one spoke any Portuguese. It’s a huge gambling Mecca and has a separate visa regime than China because of it.
-
Hey I did too but got the year wrong
-
Macau was an occasional (but long) night out when I would be in Hong Kong. Untold debauchery often ensued.
-
It was pretty "seedy" when under Portugal. I think it really took off when China took over, which is kind of surprising.
(I once had a taxi drive me around the course that the Formual 1 (or maybe Formula 3) raced. Do they still have that race?
-
It was pretty "seedy" when under Portugal. I think it really took off when China took over, which is kind of surprising.
(I once had a taxi drive me around the course that the Formual 1 (or maybe Formula 3) raced. Do they still have that race?
@taiwan_girl said in Speaking of decolonization:
It was pretty "seedy" when under Portugal. I think it really took off when China took over, which is kind of surprising.
(I once had a taxi drive me around the course that the Formual 1 (or maybe Formula 3) raced. Do they still have that race?
It's F3 - and they still run it, although it's been cancelled of late due to Covid. Both Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher won the race before becoming big stars in F1.
