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.
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.
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'.
I've been reading the various articles and postings on the dimsum site after a chance introduction a couple of weeks ago. I find the articles fascinating and insightful but I'm still left wondering 'where do I fit in?'
I am a chinese Malaysian female,married and have been with my then British husband, for eleven years and we now have a 2 year old little girl. The UK is now my home but I do still feel like an outsider, mainly because I am constantly treated as one.
I happen to be a Brit (half-Welsh half English)...I met large numbers of South East Asian's who had come to the UK to study at my university. In particular I got to know a lot of Malaysians. One of those became my girlfriend, then fiancee, and we are getting married this year...