Countries You've Been To

[Gummster]

Wait a minute, I thought that Hong Kong was a part a China. Or were that just teachers lying to me?

[NejinOniwa]

Hmmm...well, the world seems to have different opinions on that part, so your best bet is to go ask UN. They should know.



^_^

[Acher13]

i havent been able to take visit at other overseas countries yet..
the only countries i've been is:
indonesia
philipine
brunei

[Raffaele the Amigan]

Wait a minute, I thought that Hong Kong was a part a China. Or were that just teachers lying to me?

Hong Kong was a territory under rent from China to Great Britain for 99 years.

Great Britain ruled it as colony upto 1984 (If I remember well) then it became a self governed territory under the british flag due to requests of the people of Hong Kong who made a referendum election asking for self-government.

So Hong Kong citizens could rule themselves with democratic insitutions.

When in 1999 it expired the rent location agreement , China refused to renew the location contract, so Great Britain was politely forced to leave the territory.

As being a democratic territory, Communist Republic of China preferred to rule Hong Kong as it beings its own homeland, but also being a different territory with its own institutions and its own elected representatives, keeping intact its democratic institutions, laws, and free press and TVs with freedom of speech.

(in Hong Kong you can't being sentenced to death if i remember well. In mainland China there is death sentence for 55 kinds of crimes).

The same it is the situation of Chinese Territory of Macao which was former portuguese colony.

As being conquered from China, Portugal was not forced to leave Macao, but when in 1970 a pacific socialist revolution subverted former fascist government, and the new democratic parliament of Portugal who represented all the democratic parties present in that european country preferred to leave all colonies to indipendence (decolonization) or give them back to their nations of which they were belong to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

The motto of very pragmatic China communist party regarding its new territories it is:

One Single Country, Two Different Systems...

And if I remember again well, still chinese people of mainland must show passport when entering Hong Kong, and vice-versa.

Hong kong has a governor from motherland China, but a democratic elected own parliament and democratic observers in China mainland parliament, and a permanent seat in ONU.

[Lovee]

well... people in mainland china should not only show passport when they go to Hong Kong -v-
i hope just one passport would be enough but you still need a permitT_T
and it's much easier for Hong Kongers to come to mainlandT_T
i live in china and now i've never been to a foreign contry, but i'll study in japan in oct if i can get my visa-v-

[Sonic]

I live in the USA and have been to Canada. I would like to study abroad in Japan though.

[Dorktron2006]

china
hong kong
singapore
philippines
thailand
canada
going to rome and japan this summer

[Raffaele the Amigan]

Ohooo.... You are about to visit Rome?

It is only 200 KM from Naples where I live, and with High Speed train it is only 1 hour travel.

It is easy for me to go there.

We can also meet and perhaps take a lunch together, just if you desire to meet another OSTAN fanatic like me.  ;012  ;010

[Alex Stankevitch]

Lets see the list:

United Kingdom (Reside)
Ireland
Spain
France
Belgium
China
Malaysia
Indonisia
Thailand
Austrailia
USA
Greece
Turkey

[Kyo-Chan]

Im up here in canada ^w^, <_< everybody thinks its really cold up here all the time but its nice, Ive never stepped off this continent. T_T I WANNA GO TO TOKYO!!! :3 three to five years before I get to go to tokyo cuz my mom said I could take my best freind jocelyn

[CaptBrenden]

bah, anywhere where someone lives in an igloo and rides a dog sled to work is too cold for me eh.

[Kyo-Chan]

bah, anywhere where someone lives in an igloo and rides a dog sled to work is too cold for me eh.

You American Bak...

JK JK =^_^= Plz dont ban me, its just I dislike people who diss us canadians...

Im in alberta its pretty nice. The winters are about as bad as japan's winter, good taxes, good beer...

^_^

[Nevada]

I've been to China, don't remember anything though.

[CaptBrenden]

have you been to... NEVADA?!!?

[Kyo-Chan]

have you been to... NEVADA?!!?

I saw that creepy thing on TV Tokyo...

CURSES! I CANT UNWATCH IT!