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Wai-ling
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
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Location: UK Leicester
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Hi all
Im actually of hakka origin. My father and his parents are hakka and my mother is cantonese. I have heard my family speak hakka all my life and i dont find it aggressive at all! I disagree with what Elle said about being hakka determines your personality that they speak loud and all they do is gossip. It is true that the older generation talk loud and gossip a lot but i think thats just down to the fact that they are old and have nothing else better to do.
I think that personality is down to the way a individual is bought up, their surroundings and interaction. Okay i cant deny that culture and origins would have a slight impact on personality but i am saying it does not determine ones personality in anyway, shape or form.
Most of my cousins are mixed race white/chinese and they all understand some hakka which is quite unusual and none of us have any traits a hakka person is suppose to have.
Ummmm interesting subject hey....... |
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Wai-ling
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Me and my cousins are all hakka, even though they are mixed race, they are of hakka origin and we are all successful solicitors, doctors and im marketing Exec and all our family run successful businesses over the UK..... so i totally disagree with a lot of the things said in this forum |
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elle
Joined: 27 Feb 2003
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Location: Nottingham, UK
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: Does nationality follow the father's nationality? |
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| Do children alway take on the Father's nationality or dialect rather than the mothers? In the cases you have stated, Father hakka, so children are hakka. What if the father was Welsh and the mother Hakka what are the children? |
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Wai-ling
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Location: UK Leicester
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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they would probably half welsh and half hakka, lol
prob depends on what their main dialect is at home!!! :P |
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bazza
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: |
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shame hakka is a dying language
less people are picking it up as their first language
if I had to teach my kids English/Cantonese/Hakka and they had to pickup French at school then it would be really hard on them |
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fearthelemon
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
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Location: Liverpool
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
i am a BBC and i can speak cantonese and fully understand hakka when spoken, although i cannot speak it myself.
i really dont think hakka is agressive. maybe to a person not understanding the language or understanding the way people talk.
both my parents can speak cantonese and hakka. when they speak hakka it isnt agressive.
for example scottish people are often accused or being very loud but to themselves it is very normal.
pretty hard to describe really if you dont understand hakka. |
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Martin
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| bryanch wrote: | yep, its all true
my mother is hakka and speaks with my boss who is also hakka and they talk very vigourously (which is better than aggressive). Certainly understand what you mean! |
I speak hakka everyday.
It's not aggresive. There's nothing more or less aggresive about this language more or less than any other language in the world.
It's just an individuals personal opinion that exists.
Some people chat as if theyre arguing, but the same can be said for those that speak cantonese.
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Martin |
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