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19 December 2000
"All you whites are the same, simply different to us. " So said a colleague I was working with. Well, this is strange as I am Chinese not white. I do have an English accent (broadly North Eastern) having lived in the UK for well over 15 years but I also regard myself as Chinese. Making this obvious point only brought a shrug and said, "You are white. I am black. You are not like any of the Chinese I know". I felt insulted - how could he simply brush my ethnicity away so lightly.

 
Interview - What does being mixed-race mean to you?

3 October 2000
Being mixed-race is perhaps a state of being that is even more 'in between' than being second generation ethnic minority. Dimsum interviews Ian who is English-Indonesian to find out

 
Who Invented Chop Sticks? A question of identity

9 October 2000
When I was ten years old, I was asked this interesting question by a classmate, at the time it was a question that I pondered and as a British born Chinese child, I wondered why I could not answer this question. Obviously being Chinese I should automatically know the answer to all questions, no matter how obscure, concerning any aspect of being Chinese, the Chinese community, culture, China and Hong Kong and indeed any far reaching aspects of the Pan Pacific Countries! After all, to all intents and purposes I was Chinese, I have Chinese parents and I was raised eating rice out of a bowl and using chop sticks.

 
Does it bother you that Im Chinese?

3 October 2000
Ruth thinks about what being one half of a mixed race couple means to her ...

 
Everything I Know about Karate I Learned from The Muppets
Miss Piggy
When I was young I'd pretend to know karate by crossing my arms at the wrist and screeching like a demented parrot. It never failed to amuse me how the other six year olds watched me in wonder and bickered between themselves whether I actually did or not. Then, still with hands crossed, fingers outstretched, I'd kick the air and watch them take a step backward in unison. Which settled that.
 
An Englishman visits your site
I have just visited your site for the first time and have been very perplexed by what I have read. Far from offering comfort support and advice to those Chinese living in Britain it would appear from many of your articles that you wish to promote and increase racial disharmony.
 
Get used to it, sourpuss
I have just read the replies to C.L. Lind's ill-informed rant and was pleased to see my own feelings and thoughts reflected in Geoff Cockayne's letter and Jonathan Krause's passionate rebuttal.
 
So who is British then? - A reply to C.Lind
"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
 
So who is British then - Gutter Journalism

Whilst I in no way agree with all of the observations made by C. Lind, the response by J. Krause is extreme.

 
A reply to C.Lind and Jonathan Krause

As the family name suggests, Lind is not native in UK since 1066 Norman period.It is heartening that he has travelled and 'stayed' outside UK/North of London but not lives in the places that he has been to. His belief that 'a' Chinese or really 'Asiatic' lady friend who has chosen to follow him back to UK somehow qualifies him to be less of a racist in UK and find dimsum less amusing as he may have expected to read only about superficial articles on Asiatic people who may be staying in UK rather than 'living' in UK as citizens or have chosen UK as their 'home'.
 
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