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Could you please add "Mauritian" to the list?

cheers

Done! Thank you.
See home page, we've just reached 50 nationalities!

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Who's from Mauritius? Ki Manyer?

More nationalities keep coming in, almost within minutes of publishing this story on the home page in the Lamma-zine:

Greek, Serbian, Bangladeshi (several).

More, more!

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More emails have come in since publishing this story in the Lamma-zine with even more new nationalities, usually sent by people of that nationality. In fact, it's the most feedback I've received to any Lamma-zine story in quite some time. Great!

Qatari, Jamaican, Zambian, Vietnamese, Maldivian, Croatian, Taiwanese;
bringing the confirmed total to 60 now!

Afghani
American
Argentinean
Australian
Austrian
Bahaman
Bangladeshi
Brazilian
Canadian
Chilean
Chinese
Croatian
Cuban
Danish
Dutch
Ecuadorian
Fijian
Filipinos
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hong Konger
Icelandic
Indian
Indonesian
Irish
Israeli
Italian
Jamaican
Japanese
Malaysian
Maldivian
Mauritian
Mexican
Moroccan
Nepali
New Zealander
Norwegian
Pakistani
Palestinian
Polish
Qatari
Russian
Serbian
Senegalese
Singaporean
South African
South Korean
Spanish
Sri-Lankan
Swedish
Swiss
Taiwanese
Thai
Turks
UK
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Zambian

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Well, according to the just released detailed By-Census data from the govt., there are only 847 people living on Lamma who claim English as their "usual", native language, and only 62 other, non-Chinese language speakers. Hard to believe. There must be more than 62 Filipinos living here for sure.

Well, anyway, definitely more Brits than Filipinos.

By the way, Lamma & Po Toi's population has shrunk from 5,550 five years ago to 5,158, much less now than even Peng Chau Island.

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Census data for Lamma is competely useless.

They count villages with one man and a dog as having a population of 100.
Thus the ridiculous construction projects in places like Lo Tik, to serve people actually resident there only a few days of the year.

Conversely, people living in rented housing in residential areas are often not counted at all.

Alan,
Would you care to elaborate? I just spent an hour going through over 500 pages of statistical tables to find the detailed tables for Lamma. Useless?

How to count a small village as 100 people?
How not to count easy residential areas and new houses?

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That's the kind of bullshit I heard from the Lands Department when I asked them about the justification for various projects.

A lot of people officially resident here really live and work in HK, or even overseas, but keep an address here to get various benefits and be able to vote for their VRs. Conversely, a lot of more transient people who do live here want to stay under the radar for one reason or another, or just can't be bothered to fill out the forms.

The Guinness World Record idea might be doomed to failure. I've just heard from a Lammaite who has been living in a village of only 3,000 people with 95 nationalities: Serris in France!

The reason behind this is that they contain the compounds for Disneyland Paris employees. He wrote about the mix of nationalities:

"Mainly European and African because of the high rates of French and English speakers. A few strange ones-we had a guy from Timbuctoo in Mali (no joke) a girl from the Faroe Islands, a lot of Native Americans from Canada, Cambodian refugees, Romanian drug dealers, AWOL British soldiers... all living together and all getting exploited by a fucking rat."

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We've been reviving this topic on Facebook, in our new "Lamma Island Hong Kong" group, so let's see if we can beat 60 nationalities this time!

So far:

Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, USA,... 46 countries so far...

Plus, should we count UK as 1 or 3 countries (England, Scotland, Wales)?
Last time, we counted passports, so UK only.

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LG...you are still a bit confused about Northern Ireland. Officially it is part of the UK but the people there are not English, Scots or Welsh so you need to include them as well if you are going to dissect the UK into its nationalities ☺. If you ask them, they will say they are from Norn Iron.

The Republic of Ireland is another state. A bit like Timor L'este and Indonesia...or Borneo and Sarawak ☺