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Thoughts from a broad
1 April 2002
Ruth examines her first experience of being a minority culture.
 
Returning Home
1 March 2002
Saigon born Kin-man explores her idenitity when she returns to Saigon as an adult for the first time.
 
Bananas and Coconuts
4 December 2001
Canadian-born Bonnie Wong reveals the multi-culturalisms in her youth in Canada, working life in London and in her relationships with other 'bananas' and 'coconuts'.
 
I am a Banana!!
4 December 2001
Yellow on the outside and White inside, Ping-Ping Wong explains what it is like living and growing up a British Banana.
 
London Is My City
Wong Yew Yun wonders why the Chinese minority have been yet again left out of FT's article 'Ethnic minorities lose out on promotion despite their qualifications, study finds'.
 
So who knows whats going on?
Sarah Yeh, in conjunction with CCRAG, looks into the issues affecting the Chinese community, and supports their request for an audit by the Home Office.
 
Commodifying Chinese Culture

9 December 2000
In Britain we are now living through a moment when traditional notions of national identity stand a chance of being renegotiated. It is at such a time that you can expect old ideas to reassert themselves. The feminising of Chinese culture may be one of the ways in which dominant discourse is trying to keep up with what is happening to traditional notions of private and public, home and abroad, us and them, as a way of maintaining the power differential.

 
Whats in a face?

3 October 2000
What is it about a couple that particularly catches your eye, so much so perhaps, that you can't help but watch them go by? A particularly handsome pairing? A woman taller than her man? A Chinese guy with a blonde girl?

 
Put that menu down!

25 April 2001
In this personal account of a trip 'back to Hong Kong', Ming Lee describes the feeling of having to communicate with family members through his tongue-tied Cantonese. And he faces the Ultimate BBC Test: ordering in a restaurant. Did his mother's language coaching pay off?

 
A, B or C?

1 March 2001
Thoughts on being BBC by Dennis Ng

 
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