Much like the bloggers here on the Dark Side, it comes as no surprise that Hong Kong Chinese are racist bastards – they don’t like whites, blacks, Indians Filipinos, Japanese or even mainlanders. Some believe that this time, they have taken it too far. Our beloved Mosque Street is at the source of this issue. The Chinese name for Mosque Street is “Mo Lo Miu Gai”, “Mo Lo” coming from the derogatory term “Mo Lo Cha” (orginally referring to the turbans of the Sikhs and Punjabi Muslims) which is now given to the working-class Indians we see scooting around, delivering us our meals on wheels.

So back in the day, when this street was named, some China-man thought it would be a good opportunity to stick it to those dirty Indians and name the street “Mo Lo Miu Gai”, right next to the temple. Ballsy or just plain ignorance as it is a Muslim place of worship? There has been much debate whether or not the street name should be changed now that the new anti-discrimination law is firmly in place.

We at the Dark Side think that the only solution would be to add more discriminatory street names around the city so that nobody feels left out. For example, Staunton Street could be renamed “Gweilo Gai.” Then again, this issue raises the question of how much pull the Indian population in Hong Kong actually has when it comes to a name change for the street. Or should they just stick to what they do best in this town, provide us with quality, tailor-made shirts? Can our tandoori-lovers exert such power to assert that the HK government would actually give a fuck to consider a name change? It’s clear that there’s really only one clear solution to this problem, go to the source of Indian power in this city. If the Harilela Family doesn’t have a problem with the name, then, no worries, no other brown-skinned people matter anyway.

The 18th of October Post Magazine edition reports that “Mo Lo” is actually nothing sinister, as it was derived from the Portugese “Mouro”, which had become the generic word for Muslims for the Portugese. Yet instead of dealing with this so formally, perhaps the Indians here should take a page from black America and convert the name “Mo Lo Cha” into a common term of endearment, such as “Nigga” (not to be confused with Nigger – which is of course irrefutably unacceptable!).

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