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Sharp rise in Chinese arrests at U.S. border - LA Times
By Sebastian Rotella - October 5, 2009
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The Border Patrol in the Tucson sector has arrested
at least 261 Chinese border-crossers this year,
compared with an annual average of 32 during the last
four years, officials said.
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Mexicans typically pay smugglers about $1,500 for help
crossing the sun-seared landscape, which is as dangerous
as it is majestic. The fees for Central Americans and
South Americans often reach $6,000. A group of Haitians,
intercepted a few years ago in Tucson after three nights
spent hiking in circles in a canyon, had coughed up
$10,000; another $10,000 was to have been paid upon
arrival in the Chicago area.
The Chinese -- nearly all of them from Fujian province --
pay the most. They often have to work off debts of $30,000
to $70,000 over several years as indentured servants in
the sweatshops and kitchens of New York and other cities.
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Fuzhou
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fuzhou is the capital & largest municipality of Fujian
province, People's Republic of China.
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Gender roles
Fuzhou males are perceived in the rest of Fujian province
as being rather subservient in sex-relations, the stereo-
typical image being that of a husband following his wife
around a shopping area, holding many bags. This has led
to the Fujianese maxim (or cultural rule of thumb) "Don't
marry a Fuzhou woman". Whatever the truth of these
perceptions, Fuzhou males do seem rather more given than
men in other cities to compensatory counter-type behavior
towards female strangers, such as cutting queues, stealing
taxis and even flashing, for which the local term is
liuniaoxia (from liuniao, to take the (pet) bird out for
a stroll (ie to the park, as done by retirees all over
China) + xia, action hero).
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