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| Aug 14, 2007 20:50 | #21   |
 | Well, Grokan, Apault's reply is in fact related to this this thread. He still touches upon the same topic "overseas Chinese'". Although he quoted homself and an member from TCG as examples, but his reply are still quite relevant. |
| Aug 22, 2007 20:13 | #22 |
| Recently, I have heard a term " Mango People". It is said that many "American-born-Chinese" are trying to receive Chinese culture from their Childhood. They want to be "yellow " both externally and internally. "Yellow skin, Yellow Identity" |
| Aug 22, 2007 20:29 | #23 |
| When I first strarted traveling around China many years ago I traveled with a friend from Taiwan. He could read 3000 year old writing and knew every leader of every dinasty back 3000 years. He had read all of the poets and new the history of every major City. I have never met any one from the mainland with this amount of knowledge. Why is this so? Dodger. |
| Aug 22, 2007 21:30 | #24 |
| Wow, unbelievable . Dodger, it it true? He is really a superman. Do you mean that he could read the inscriptions on oracle bones? He is an 'encyclopedia'. |
| Aug 24, 2007 18:55 | #25 |
| Miranda, I did not add that his Wife lectures at Tiapie Univercity and travels the world teaching Overseas Chinese on their culture. Yes, he could read the inscriptions on oracle bones and new by heart many of the old poets. It made doing business with him the most interesting of visits. Dodger. |
| Aug 28, 2007 20:27 | #26 |
| It seems that ABC( American Born Chinese) are more interested in Chinese culture than the Chinese mainlanders. Is it because ABCs are immersed in two different cultures that they foster a partiality to one culture? Whether being "Bananas" (externally yellow, internally white) or "Mango", they are descendents of the Yellow Emperor. No body can cut the blood tie between "overseas bananas" and the native Chinese. "Blood is thicker than water." |
| Aug 28, 2007 20:46 | #27 |
| Most ABC's cannot read or write Chinese... unless they go to study in a Chinese-speaking country. My parents came to Canada thirty-five years ago, so what they know of China is from their childhood (ie 1950s 1960s China). China thirty or fourty years ago was very different from today's China. So what immigrant parents teach their kids is a more traditional form of Chinese culture old-school than what modern Chinese people see today in China. that's my guess at why some places preserved Chinese culture seemingly better than even on the mainland. I don't know if people can ever disconnect themselves completely from their heritage. Some people try, some people don't care about their heritage. But i want to embrace my heritage, because it enriches my life. I am first of all Canadian, and then secondly Chinese.. |
| Aug 30, 2007 03:02 | #28 |
| CHYNAGYRL, Being the second generation of Chinese Immigrants in China, have you ever felt you are alienated from the Canadian Mainstream Society? I have ever watched a move West Side Story. It tells a story about the second and the third generation of Mexican immigrants' life in US. It seems that it is hard for them to be assimilated into the mainstream "white people culture ". Since you grew up in Canada, you have more reliable say on this issue. Do native Canadians have discrimination on "Colored People"? |
| Sep 4, 2007 19:40 | #29 |
| The reason I became interested in visiting China was because I had met so many wonderful Chinese living here in Canada. Some who came recently and some have beenm here all their lives. All were proud of being Chinese and to varying degrees, interested in showing me Chinese culture and history. One common trait among chinese in Canada, born here or new arrivals is they work TOO hard! I think this idea of "yellow on the outside and white on the iside" is stupid. Not all Chinese in China think and act the same, why should Chinese abroad conform to somebody else's image of what they should be. |
| Sep 4, 2007 20:50 | #30 |
| This is a really thoughtful thread. Chynagyrl, your comments are especially insightful. |
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