This is simply Disneyland´s ranking. Hong Kong #1? That would be if you are USD Billionaire, cause living in the most expensive city in the world for most humans means work work work. And you prefer a Sharia imposed place? I guess that you are really a billionaire, because if you go to compete for money there with the muslim brothers you may end up with your head on a spike.
I am sorry that you could not see further down this relationship. Maybe you should have been brave and ask him what he thinks about western culture, gay people, women in bikinis and so on.
It is if focuses on races (aborigines in the island suffer discrimination) although it doesn stop there and focuses too on nationality (anyone not Taiwanese).