CHINADIAN CHINESE CHINADIAN, CHINESE

playingtoy

You knowwhen you are a Chinadian Chinese when:

You cannotfind any Chinese character on any of your current ids.

Your lastname used to go before your given name.

Your givenname is broken into 2 pieces, and you have no idea what to do with the middlename.

You onlyspeak Chinese on your cell phone, at home, or in Chinese malls.

It takesyou an extra 2-3 seconds to think in English in order to engage in a normalCanadian conversation.

You havefamily members who speak and understand no English at all, and they continue tosurvive because of you.

When awhite person speaks Chinese to you, you feel like waking up from your dream.

You mighthave heard Gordon Campbell and Stephen Harper greeting you with Gong Hei FatChoi on TV once a year.

When yousee the totem pole in a park or museum, you wonder if your culture will becomea tourist’s souvenir in 50 years.

You used tospeak Chinese to every non-white person you met when you first immigrated,whether they actually were Koreans, Japanese, Philipino or native.

You have seenpeople criticizing someone right in front of his/her face by using the Chinesechannel.

The mainreason you have stopped swearing in public is that you are not comfortable withthe English foul words.

The mainreason you can swear as much as you want in public is that you are still theChinese driving the BMW.

You stillbelieve white people are the foreigners, and they believe you are theforeigner.

You put upa smile when you don’t know how to answer or reply in English.

You spend aportion of your time everyday digging into the Chinese media. Every now andthen, you discover a word that you have forgotten.


You’ve hada hard time understanding the English version of Tao Te Ching.

Sometimesyou are proud of yourself being an immigrant, not a refugee.

You mightor might not need to learn more English. No one else needs to learn moreChinese.

You knowyou can calculate much faster than a non-Chinese speaking person with your 九因歌, when neither of you were using acalculator.

You knowthe cultural barrier is more than the face and skin.

Wheneveryou are not in the mood to talk, you can easily go back to the first day in Canada andreply: NO ENGLISH.

ricrick

please fix your space bar b4 posting

tofu

i only scored 4 points, so is it good or bad?

i read your last statement too, seems like you are lost in your middle-age crisis.  you are lost since you are out of your comfort zone.
you will face the same problems no matter where you are(except hk).
will you have the gut to ask people in beijing  that they can speak cantonese or not.  i doubt it.

you believe assimilation,  you always question why you need to adopt western culture, not the other way around.   you asked why the white cannot have "dim sum" every day and you need to have donuts & coffee everyday.  but beside the white and the cantonese, have you consider the indian, taiwanese & japanese...  they may not like donuts, but they are ok with it.  western culture is a mutually inclusive thing for all people in canada.  

i believe acculturation, i believe people are  exchange of cultural features in this global world.  of course, it is not a one day process, it takes time.  when i was taking the asian study class 10+ yrs ago, some white people can speak fluent mandarin and actually one of them got the scholarship and went to taiwan for his master degree.  
just want to let you know white people are slowly adopting chinese culture as well.

i love both hk and canada.  I never think hk is bad.  i choose to stay in canada because canada is more suitable for me.  just like apple and orange, they are both good.  depend on which one you like.

i am a canadian chinese, so what wrong?  this is me.  

why you are still in canada, it must be a reason to keep you here.
be positive thinking.  why you always think what you lost rather than what you have.  you sound like you are the global man who lost his identity .  dont' you believe you will face a similar situation when you change your career or partner.   who moved your cheese?
who are you?  who are you?  who are you?  this is what you need to find out.

Littleprince

原帖由 ricrick 於 2009-2-19 18:17 發表
please fix your space bar b4 posting

同意喇。。。。

正一抄襲怪。。。抄襲都唔該做少少功夫唔好這麼懶喇。。。

所以我只看了兩行就沒有心機看了。。。

Ultraman

Despite some of the contents might not be true, what is the problem to be a Chinadian Chinese? Same as what is the problem to be a Itanadian Italian, Germadian German, Filipiandian Filipino.... etc?

habitrailspace

can someone fix this mother F

快樂牛郎

原帖由 Littleprince 於 2009/2/19 17:55 發表

同意喇。。。。

正一抄襲怪。。。抄襲都唔該做少少功夫唔好這麼懶喇。。。

所以我只看了兩行就沒有心機看了。。。

Can you point me to the original source?

yuusaku

actually i searched, couldn't find anything similar...

大C姐

同我無關,我一向都係一個西妹﹐我中文又好﹐吹咩。

-- BigChestian

Purpleheart

又係o係 facebook copy and paste 出黎既野