The Chinese have a reputation for gambling.
Fan-tan, mahjong, and more lately horses.
The old saw that an Australian will bet on two flies on a wall, has nothing on the Chinese.
linkMy amah finally divorced her husband (who was our cook) because after gambling everything of hers away, he finally wrenched the wedding ring off her finger and headed back into town again.
I hope that Australia's new crop of young Chinese and Vietnamese don't get the gambling bug.
It's an utter disgrace that one of our most celebrated and foremost citizens in the person of James Packer spends most of his working life trying to find new ways to capitalise on the gambling addictions of Asian businessmen.
That's a pretty disgusting way to earn a living.
Just visualise a big passenger jet at 37,000 feet travelling at 750mph carrying rows and rows of Asians sitting in silence as they are being transported to Australia to blow their money at Packer's gambling tables.
There's something horribly pathetic and utterly ghastly about this scenario. Sheep to the slaughter.
Families broken up. Businesses gone bust. Reputations ruined. An annual rollcall of suicides. Wives and children in mourning ...
... courtesy of James Packer Incorporated.