Foreign money, including Asian tycoons, is pouring into Britain to buy real estate. If you buy a three hundred years of aristocratic estate, are faced with the question of whether to redecorate, and how to manage.
Because the TV series Downton Abbey is popular, if there is Chinese capital to buy a castle in the south of England, from then on, as the head of the family, if you are, you must continue to employ the ancient castle looks like Anthony Crane Kinshie’s white butler (Butler), called the white Butler to open the door for you, serving meals, pouring wine, in order to heal the trauma of 1841 national history, which I will understand, and sympathize.
After all, the police force of the SAR government today, with the Chief Executive as a yellow woman, also employs a white British superintendent called Tao Hui. This face is very important, we all got it.
But (But), after buying the estate, you can ask the white British Butler to serve you French red wine when you eat, if the red wine is replaced by Maotai or Wu Liang Ye, in the cultural aesthetics, it is a bit problematic.
If you buy a courtyard in Beijing’s Rice Market Hutong, hire a Henan servant, call on all Wang Jianlin and Pan Shiyi, open a bottle of Moutai for a million RMB, and tell them that Prince Gong had hosted Ding Ruchang in this courtyard, there is absolutely no problem, and it is very harmonious. But this kind of wine, not to get the British Sammamish County seaside of that Duke of Wellington as a guest of the ancient castle.
Yes, I know there is an expression called cultural diversity and Cross-over in the white left, but in the aesthetic point of view, just as Jesus saw a group of peasant vendors in the temple in the ground stall, Jesus also looked at it and gave force to drive away. It’s ok, but the property will be a Chinese Joy Luck Club plus Pan Gu Da Guan from now on.
Unless there is a next generation of Chinese tycoons to pay three times the price to take over the property in ten years, the investment value of this estate in the UK ends here.
Use this example to look at Hong Kong: the colonial era information checklist, it is the British set down. The British have managed the Asian and African colonies, a broad vision. Such as Grantham, before coming to Hong Kong had been in Jamaica, Nigeria, Fiji Islands as an auxiliary secretary, seen the clash of colonial indigenous customs and Western civilization, he came to be governor, the Chinese people of Hong Kong will not be his secondary school in the United Kingdom when the examination first clap their hands in praise and cheer, as the genius of governing Hong Kong.
So many of the colony’s laws and regulations, including the book of inquiry, is the insight and experience of the owners of the last hand. You move in, of course you can decorate greatly, of course you can hang a pair of red lanterns in the hall, and even eventually change the Butler to a team of restaurant hostesses in gold cheongsams. Unless another big man from the same cultural background pays an expensive price to take it over later, there will be no more white buyers at the level of Rockefeller or Rothschild in England, the Commonwealth, the whole Western world.
Everything is determined by the market, that is, money. In short if you have money, you have lots and lots of money, in this world, you are right, hello yay.
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