（2）分享一些有趣的观点：关于香港的分析A

国别和地区分析部分书是从日本讲起，我先引用点关于香港有意思的说法，大家看看乐一乐。一开始就讲有人说luxe gluttony是七宗罪之一，有的人说推动社会进步。Hong Kong people see it as neither, Frankly, they don’t have the time to bother – they’re too busy at a mall nearby.

接下去说在香港经济腾飞之前，奢侈品的消费者主要是nightclub girls,她们带着自己的客户去shopping，店里的人会根据男人穿戴来报价，Gucci就报高价，Pierre Cardin就报低价。第二天早上女孩把买的衣服送回店里可以拿到70%的refund。经济腾飞之后大亨们成为消费主力（具体写了香港一些富豪是如何由代理奢侈品发家），再到后来日本和大陆的游客成为消费主体。

大陆游客多了以后也带来问题，作者写了一段话It's like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, on Rodeo Drive with a stash of cash. How do you serve a constant flow of mainland Julias without upsetting local customers。这段话引起一读者的强烈反感，她的评语是”The book is racist, particularly towards the Chinese. Chinese customers are likened to a classless prostitute.”

我部分同意该读者的观点，因为两位作者关于香港部分的从开始到结束都以”情人，情妇”贯穿，不过又感觉电影导演塑造的那个角色的目的更多是用来反衬Julia的善良，单纯，以及富人们的薄情寡义和无知。

接下去有一节写得有意思。
Only in Hong Kong would it be considered perfectly normal
to down a few fur coats, despite the fact that temperatures rarely go below 10C (新加坡就不怎么热衷fur coats)
to devise strategies to beat LV’s one-bag-per-person edict that applies in its stores in Paris.
to line up for the luxuries of life. 具体地，The mother of all queues is the one for Hermes Kelly and Birkin bags.下面写得就更讽刺了，写只有在香港的Hermes店, there is a label guide with an accompanying CD to reduce the mispronunciation of brand names.

这个又让我想起了Pretty Woman里面Julia一开始不会读Versace, 后来又发现一贵妇也不会正确发音。