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Pinkerton
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@ Jeff Minter
I work in China. If people are coming here for a longer-term job (the employment laws here offer much less protection than in the UK), more stable environment (maybe not in Xinjiang province), then good luck to them. I guess they don't work for Rio Tinto.
Being a BBC, I looked at as some freak who for some reason best known to Heaven, doesn't speak Mandarin; feeling as if i'm welcomed isn't something that i've experenced too much outside of posh hotels. Those on expatriate packages (hence why they are not available to Chinese Nationals) are well remunerated but that would be the same anywhere.
I don't recall any fuss about the Chinese buying MG but then again, my memory is like Swiss cheese. As for buying Rio Tinto, well there was something similar when the Arabs tried to buy the Port State Control in America - is that a colonialist attitude too?
From what i can gather, many of the youth are strongly nationalistic but look as much toward Hong Kong, Korea and Japan as they do to the West. You should have seen the huge posters advertising Eason Chen concerts and adverts for Andy Lau's latest film are everywhere. |
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Azrael
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Location: Maidenhead
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There are racism towards any ethnic minority group whether its black, Arabs, Asians etc etc. I don't believe there are more sig racism directed at the Chinese/East Asians than any other group. Every country has its racism element, whether its in China, Japan, Britain, Russia, Australia or any part of the world. I have been racially insulted by black people as well as whites before.
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Edwina Lee
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Pinkerton (= Jeff Minter?),
I guess as a BBC working in China, this is your 1st time being a foreigner in a foreign country.
Imagine yourself in Britain and you can't speak english but you look english. I bet it's a strange experience.
In China, you look chinese but you can't speak the language. Not much conversation is there? 
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zombiehellmonkey
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Edwina Lee wrote: |
In China, you look chinese but you can't speak the language. Not much conversation is there?
Edwina xx |
The Chinese language is made up of so many different dialects that most Chinese in China could not communicate with each other!
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Edwina Lee
Joined: 06 Oct 2006
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Location: High Wycombe, UK
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| zombiehellmonkey wrote: | | Edwina Lee wrote: |
In China, you look chinese but you can't speak the language. Not much conversation is there?
Edwina xx |
The Chinese language is made up of so many different dialects that most Chinese in China could not communicate with each other! |
Nah! I bet people who speak the same dialects tend to live in the same district province. |
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nancy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I am surprised to see that racism still persists. |
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Edwina Lee
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Nancy, don't fall for this bullshit talk.
Are British Born Chinese who don't speak Mandarin regarded as a separate 'race' in China?
It is nonsense! |
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