Whether a community welcomes colonization has very much to do with the original culture of the people within the community. The British once colonized Hong Kong and Canada. On the spectrum of welcoming colonization, Hong Kong was more on the positive side than Canada. This might be culturally related. Most Chinese prefer their children to receive education, and the ancient Chinese schooling system was very rigid, with parental corporal punishment on children as a norm, and rigorous Chinese traditional examination systems already implemented. Therefore, when the British came to Hong Kong to establish a Western education system, the Chinese were willing to send their children to study in the schools founded by the British. The parents learned the Western way of raising children, gradually reducing parental dictatorship and corporal punishment of children. On the other hand, the indigenous children in North America were mostly born and raised in rural areas, and their parents were free-go...
"The Clallery" (clallery.com) is a cyberspace gallery for people to clarify and to cherish our lives together. Lives could often become quite disoriented in the midst of our busyness, and we would love to display pieces of artwork and the short stories behind them which may allow us to reflect quietly, to converse with our Triune God, and to rejuvenate and reorient ourselves towards our creator in joy and at peace on entering healthy relationships with people and matters.