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I did feel discrimination when I was growing up in Saskatchewan. Thirty years ago, there were few Chinese in my prairie town, so the kids at my school had lots of nice names for me. My last name was "Chou" which means "cauliflower" in French, so they called me "cauliflower". every day. Then they called me "shrimp" too because I was short. My parents kept dressing me in clothes my grandma sent from Taiwan (big boxes every Christmas). They looked very *unusual* and too fancy compared to the clothes the other kids wore. Some people thought I was weird because I dressed differently...

CHYNAGYRL ,  I am sorry to hear your hardships in Canada. I can feel how hard it is for an overseas Chinese child.  I don't  mean Canadians are unfriedly. But as we all know, during our childhood, as kids , we were ignorant and exclusive. The Canadian kids might think we all have the white skin, but you are yellow, so you didn't belong to us.

"And my parents were very strict, so other kids could not identify with what I told them about my home life. "
 As for this issue, in nature, it is an expression of cultural clash. This simple phenomenon mirrors the cultural gap between the East and the West.  Canadian kids didn't identify with you told them. It is comprehensible, because we have different national identities. It is hard for Canadians to identify with Chinese ways of thinking or even Chinese culture.

"It takes pretty thick skin to grow up as a minority in a white community" . I was deeply moved by these words.  Anyhow,  glad to hear :"That changed when I went to university though... then there was Asian fever in Canada."[/quote]

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