加国华裔孩子的明天：血脉和华人社区是永远依托
- 主题发起人 Fisher2004
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The so-called assimilation is basically all about the colour of your skin and your appearance. This is what racism is about - it is very superficial and is literally just "skin deep".
I totally understand where Patrick Chan came from when he made the statement about his cultural orientation and the lack of sense of belonging to Canada, the country where he was born and brought up. It is very sad but this is the reality of being a non-white in a white country. The only way to really assimilate is through interracial marriage, so that the Asian physical characteristics of his children and grandchildren will disappear. This is the tacit collective strategy of Japanese-Canadians and Japanese-Americans. They have learnt it the very hard way after the internment during WWII.
I went through the same transformation as Patrick Chan is going through. Growing up in a British cultural environment, I hardly understood Chinese beyond basic conversational Cantonese and knew practically nothing about China and Chinese culture. However, I have since learnt both Chinese and Japanese in my adulthood. I am no longer pretending to be someone that I am not, and have long left that world of hypocrisy and colour bars behind.
White people like to talk nicely about equality and fairness, but somehow when it comes to racial matters, these precious values that they hold dear tend to dissipate into thin air.
血脉和华人社区是永远依托 - I totally agree.
I totally understand where Patrick Chan came from when he made the statement about his cultural orientation and the lack of sense of belonging to Canada, the country where he was born and brought up. It is very sad but this is the reality of being a non-white in a white country. The only way to really assimilate is through interracial marriage, so that the Asian physical characteristics of his children and grandchildren will disappear. This is the tacit collective strategy of Japanese-Canadians and Japanese-Americans. They have learnt it the very hard way after the internment during WWII.
I went through the same transformation as Patrick Chan is going through. Growing up in a British cultural environment, I hardly understood Chinese beyond basic conversational Cantonese and knew practically nothing about China and Chinese culture. However, I have since learnt both Chinese and Japanese in my adulthood. I am no longer pretending to be someone that I am not, and have long left that world of hypocrisy and colour bars behind.
White people like to talk nicely about equality and fairness, but somehow when it comes to racial matters, these precious values that they hold dear tend to dissipate into thin air.
血脉和华人社区是永远依托 - I totally agree.
