What's the story with all the reviews of Coldplay's shows in Asia? Almost every one I read complains about the amount of "foreigners" at the show. The person who wrote a review on the 18th July concert went so far as to comment that "we even had an English couple sitting right next to us." You poor thing...that must of ruined your night!

 

I think it's all rather odd.

yeh i dont see anything wrong with that........what the frig?

i'll tell you one thing - this view is very typical of Hong Kong as well. Not those chinese who have had some exposure overseas (lived or studied or studied at english/international schools), but the local local chinese who harbour very ethnocentric views. Did you read the amount of reviews coming out of here? I had to tell someone off for the same thing (see an earlier post of mine). The fact is, if it wasn't for us "foreigners" the arena would have been 1/4 full! I just think, with Hong Kong being so international and multi-cultural (which is different to japan), these views should not be coming out at all. So what if there are other non-chinese in the audience? It should be celebrated rather than criticised. Yeah is a pity.

I think we (I am HKer) just hope (or expect) that more local people (Asian) would love Coldplay. But I was quite disappointed that there was more than half the audience were foreigners...

And many of them were quite cool in the concert... Strange... :stunned:

these parts of the world are often the only places 'foreigners' can get to see Coldplay without getting ripped off

I think we (I am HKer) just hope (or expect) that more local people (Asian) would love Coldplay. But I was quite disappointed that there was more than half the audience were foreigners...

And many of them were quite cool in the concert... Strange... :stunned:

 

it is not surprising there were more "foreigners"

because the mainstream of music in Hong Kong (i mean local chinese people) is Canto-pop. most of my friends listen to Joey Yung, Twins or some taiwan singers.

 

for me, it was awesome gig and i never complain anything

(only blame myself I shouldn't eat before the gig because i got stomachache during the gig)

that's too far of that guy to put it... but he(or she) must have his own influential reasons to say that. different people go thru different things in their life and hence different points of view. if he has to change, he has to be influenced by more positivity (love) to extinguish his negativity (hate) he has received all his life... then why not give it by us first? if we're strong enough against hurt.

 

people discriminate against each other due to minor differences in our look/way

but those people are a minor part of it all as well... there're always some strange minorities in the world.

so, no worries i think; that kind of thinking will never be the mainstream.

 

i loved the old English man that softly tapped my shoulder from my back when he's passing the narrow passage to his seat. (my weirdly designed seat was the blockage to him) and i was surprised at the way he later looked back and smiled at me.... how nice it could've been... if i was strong enough to face it.

But his hand was like a gift from heaven, it calmed my storm inside with peace and it did have an impact on me to enjoy Coldplay's great concert. how great it is, the little things we do to people that can be so powerful.

 

i'm a original yellow hongkonger too, one who doesn't even speak ok english (only got an E in oral exam) due to the very little exposure to the language here... (writing can be deceiving tho) but i know i myself is responsible for it anyway.

 

btw, a teacher told me the word 'foreigner'... is discriminating too and should be avoided, right?

 

anyway, 'english foreigners' aside, i think quite a lot of yellow-looking people are not hong kong locals. they flew over to see coldplay O_O i heard those people next to me during concert and on the train speak fluent English and never Cantonese... so...

 

something makes me think from the very beginning this coldplay show is more meant for foreigners rather than locals...

there was no obvious public advertising at all during the early sale of ticket until near the ... deadline. (the 'talk' song was released to local radio stations only a week or two before the concert.) or, are all shows here like this? so we locals couldn't know of the happening of this show easily.

perhaps it's a measure; they wants foreign visitors to travel hong kong?

 

the same seems to go for robbie williams's concert here in november; most tickets were sold prior to the public ticket release date (to the robbie community, where most are 'foreigners'), leaving out only the cheapest pricing tickets which were all sold out too in a flash.

 

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I was enjoying myself (Singapore, 10/07/2006, after World Cup!) too much to actually notice the races of people. I just know there was a whole lot of people enjoying themselves and that's the whole love I get from it.

 

Most of the reporters get seats anyway, which steals about 26346% of the fun away from the actual thing.

i'm chinese, but i don't live in hong kong.

all i can say is, who gives a shit about what type of people are at a coldplay show?

they're all there to support a band that you love, they probably even love them more than the locals because they actually FLEW out to hong kong to see coldplay.

and to whoever said that they hoped that there would be more locals, don't even worry about anyone else. YOU know that you love coldplay and that's that. the more that you worry about other races, etc. being at a coldplay show, the more that you will seem racist.

Erm... wow, that IS weird. People complaining about the number of Caucasians (which, I believe, is the word that should be used) at the Asian tour gigs. By the way, I didn't complain about that in my own version of the event, which was the least of my grouses..

 

The Caucasians that I met in the mosh pit at Singapore were nice people (older, but nice). :) Other than that, the rest of the people that were in the mosh pit were (I'm guessing) mostly young people from both Singapore and Malaysia (including yours truly).

i'm chinese, but i don't live in hong kong.

all i can say is, who gives a shit about what type of people are at a coldplay show?

they're all there to support a band that you love, they probably even love them more than the locals because they actually FLEW out to hong kong to see coldplay.

and to whoever said that they hoped that there would be more locals, don't even worry about anyone else. YOU know that you love coldplay and that's that. the more that you worry about other races, etc. being at a coldplay show, the more that you will seem racist.

 

 

Point well made, but not sure if you are totally correct about people flying out to Hong Kong to see the show - there are quite a large number of expatriates living and working in HK already. That is why the view of the person who started this thread is even more strange seeing that these are HK people (albeit not chinese) who have come to these shows.

I think everyone is kinda missing the point. I'm sure that the guys (Coldplay) don't want us bickering over who was at the concert. It really comes down to the music that was played, and whether you really enjoyed it or not.

It doesn't matter who else was there.

From my experienece, some of the people in HK really have a feeling of community and prefer the company of locals perhaps because they feel they will have more in common with themselves.

I think this is a cultural thing because HK is a province, they do not feel they are part of china and they obviously aren't part of the British any more. It is kind of like they are by themselves (culturally at least) so this naturally brings them together.

 

I say: Let music bring us all closer together :D

If you see it then you will understand at the SOS

 

Speaking of YELLOW Asians do you think the Parachute's HIT : Yellow could be about the Asian ethnic race??? Coldplay's name if you divide it into half is CP or Communist Party in China ;)

^Bordering on racism there my friend.:\

NEIL FINN you're sympathetic strings are like the stirrings in my soul? ANYTIME

 

I love China. All the clothes I buy from Kmart, Target, Big W are made from there. They have amazing food x&y most there work under a dollar a day to manufacture our mass produced plasma TVs, radios, clothes, toasters, microwaves, dish washers, can-openers x&y what not.

:confused: ok?