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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:27 am Post subject: How many Chinese-whatever are there on this board?? |
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There seems to be a tonne of us around.
I am kinda Chinese, kinda British.. 
Born in Hong Kong, raised in a very British way, until taking off for the UK at a relatively young age.
So what are you? ABC, BBC, CBC, AusBC, NZBC, ChinaBC, HKBC, T(aiwan)BC, S('pore)BC...?
May be we should form a #BC club (# being whichever country you were born in).
Yeah, I am bored..  |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Thought you were leaving the country. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you know there's a Chinese saying, "The Koreans are more Chinese than the Chinese"? |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| PRagic wrote: |
| Thought you were leaving the country. |
PRagic, you should know that nothing happens without planning.
I am planning it now, but I have just got out of the divorce rut and am doing some solid path-laying. Will be gone by end of 2010. |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| Did you know there's a Chinese saying, "The Koreans are more Chinese than the Chinese"? |
No doubt you could make all sorts of Korean friends telling them that. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm half-Chinese from England, but I don't speak any Chinese at all. Does that count? |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Good on you for going heavy into the planning part; pointless to make a move without things being set up in advance. Good luck to you and the wee one. I've always enjoyed your posts. |
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mayorgc
Joined: 19 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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CBC
Can't speak much mandarin, Can't read much Chinese but I can understand most of what I hear. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Just don't need to segregate by where we were born and what language. Just make it a Pan-Chinese club or something. There's enough "us vs. them" mentality here in Korea. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Just don't need to segregate by where we were born and what language. Just make it a Pan-Chinese club or something. There's enough "us vs. them" mentality here in Korea. |
Told you I was bored and was curious about where people were from. No different than wanting to know if you were from the US or the UK etc.  |
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Korean LaoWei
Joined: 01 Apr 2009
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My wife is Chinese. Does that get me anything?
Also I have another question for folks here. I heard a lot of people say ABC (American Born Chinese). This always sounded like it undermined their national identity to me and even a little derogitory depending on who was saying it. I always heard ethnicity-nationality. For example Chinese American. This always sounded more appropriate to me. Curious what the other posters here think? |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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It's just a way of ID'ing ourselves and make things clearer.
There is really only a small %tage of people who are offended by it. Disgruntled people always make the most noise. Those of us who don't really care don't say anything.
*shrug*.. c'est la vie is my motto  |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| As far as I know ABC is a derogatory term used by Chinese born in China to describe American Born Chinese. I've not heard it used by non-Chinese Americans. |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| I luv 羊肉串 can I have honorary membership? |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| Old Gil wrote: |
| I luv 羊肉串 can I have honorary membership? |
You can have an honourary membership simply because you can write in Chinese.
WTG! |
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