Can BBC's Find Happiness In The Far East?

 

With the endless western media Sinophobia, enforced 'invisibility' of our British community, for BBCs who haven't completely embraced multiculturalism, being a 'minority', increasingly depressing economic times, even if you are relatively quite well off financially, if you have an ounce of social observation/sympathy, it can at times be difficult to 'switch off' from negative news around us.

In the East however, things are looking better comparatively, BBC's whose parents are from the New Territories often have village homes they can travel to and from, relatives they can stay with for some time, whilst looking for work, or even just for a break from being here in the UK. 

Culturally, for some BBCs although popular HK/Chinese music TV or Film may not compete in quality with western output, China is increasingly becoming westernised, and in both China and Hong Kong there are many English speaking students, not to mention many who want to learn the English language.

The main problem for some BBC's is the Chinese language, having already integrated with western society or encouraged to continue to speak Cantonese/Mandarin growing up, as well as we ought to,  though it may take some time to get back to a fluent level, if we are lucky to have helpful parents, and sometimes friends/relatives or spouses who do,we can have an advantage when it comes to improving our speaking ability which can obviously help us when it comes to finding work out there.

In the UK, It's clear western media will not tolerate Chinese,except at arm's length, BBC's will never create an independent media, FOBS will continue to run their FOB businesses and create their own exclusive FOB-only circles, all of which will do nothing for British Chinese social identity despite China's growing world presence.

Despite partnering with British Companies, until China buys up western media, which could be some time off, if ever, and British Chinese community takes more social interest beyond 'Self-interest', for BBC's who want to reconnect with our Chinese heritage, looking to the Far East as a serious option for relocation, if not a long extended stay, could be the missing piece in our culture-starved lives.

As an ethnic Chinese living in Britain,  how do you feel, about the fact you and future generations growing up in the UK may never be fully accepted by British society, and only tolerated? And if relocating to the Far East, is an option by contrast, is it one worth considering?

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TURTLE MOTHERS CAN'T HAVE THEIR CAKE AND EAT IT

With British Chinese women inter racially marrying at unprecedented levels (Discussed HERE), just how to do they balance their desire to assimilate into British society without ignominiously bringing shame to their Chinese ancestry?

When an inter racial couple tie the knot, the first dilemma is whether to adopt her husband's surname. Whilst there are Chinese women maintaining their Chinese maiden name, many others happily join the White race by removing all trace of  their Chinese name, E.g. Liberal Democrat's Merlene Emerson. However, there's another group of Chinese women that have developed an alternative solution (see examples below).

Sneered at by some sections of the Chinese community and often castigated by members of their own family, these types of Chinese women are saddled with guilt for marrying a non-Chinese, they fear they are non-filial or being disrespectful to their Chinese tradition, customs and heritage, but at the same time don't want to upset their White husband, the result is an improvised bastardised compromise in the form of a double barrel pseudo-Chinese-western name to save face (i.e Wong-Smith see photograph above). However, this is a false compromise, the Chinese surname/family name is formally passed through the line of the Chinese father and not the mother. The creation of the East-west double barrel name neither conforms to Chinese tradition nor Chinese custom, in creating a pseudo-western-Chinese compromise whether they like it or not, these Chinese women  are treacherously and shamelessly destroying and betraying their Chinese traditional ancestral heritage, they are making up the rules as they go along as a solution to the problems they have created themselves as a consequence of their own selfish decision to break Chinese tradition by marrying a non-Chinese.

But the guilt trip doesn't stop there, complexities are taken to a new level as she reproduces a mixed race child (typically Eurasian) and raises it in the UK, the child adopts the double barrel surname. The poor confused child is given an additional Chinese name (as their middle name) to add to their western name. These shameful turtle mothers believe they can bypass both Chinese customs and the Chinese genetic factor (their hatred of Chinese men by refusing to date, marry or breed with Chinese men) and still reproduce a 'Chinese child' by breeding with a White man and artificially raising the mixed race child to be a 'Chinese' child simply by calling it 'a Chinese baby,' giving it 'a Chinese baby name' and giving it 'Chinese linguistic lessons,' in others words, they want to have their cake and eat it.

A perfect example is Fiona Falcone, a Chinese (BBC) married to an Italian and her article for Dimsum.co.uk. She set up a 'Playcantonese' creche for parents wishing to raise their children in a Chinese Cantonese speaking environment. But why doesn't she herself speak Cantonese to the child at home instead?  Because her Cantonese is too poor and her husband and his family are white and can't speak Cantonese, nor will they ever learn to speak Cantonese.

Be Afraid: The Future of the British Cantonese community - Circled are all non-ethnic Chinese & their mixed race children attending the PlayCantonese creche

She epitomises the mentality of westernised Chinese attitudes in prioritising learning a non-Chinese second language such as Spanish, Italian, French, Latin or English (in FOB's) etc to please their non-Chinese partner, to develop their career or to pass grades....over learning their own Chinese dialect or sub-dialect. Ironically, the article is entitled ‘Keeping Cantonese Alive!’ She lays out the creche's mission objective:

   “I hope (to) keep Chinese language and culture alive so that...in many years to come, my grandchildren will be wondering how to keep Cantonese alive for their children.”

You do not keep Cantonese alive by inter racially marrying with a White man, reproducing a mixed race child and raising it in the UK and still expect your grandchildren to speak Cantonese in two generations time, rather that is how you destroy Cantonese. In two generations time, her grandchildren will not be ethnic Chinese (Discussed here). If you want a Cantonese speaking Chinese child and Cantonese Chinese speaking grandchildren, its quite simple - marry a Chinese man from a Cantonese speaking family,  there is no compromise, you can't have your cake and eat it.
By BBCZeigeist

Gok's Teens The Naked Truth

Gok Wan TV makeover shows - 'How to Look Good Naked' and 'Gok's Fashion Fix,' may have popularised catchphrases "You Go Girlfriend," "Gok Shock," "Fairy Gokmother and "Bangers," but there is one phrase that Gok Wan uses far more frequently, a phrase he is unlikely to be heard saying on his current Television series (Tuesday 14th February 2012) Channel 4 Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth...  

Gok Wan 'Chink' phrase is tweeted ad infinitum on his Twitter account. Such a derogatory racial term that was once the preserve of the non-Chinese community to abuse Chinese...is now used by many BBC's (especially the BBCs from the North of the UK), Mixed race Chinese Eurasian's themselves. When you amalgamate the crassness of northern British Born Chinese with self-deprecating mixed race Eurasians, you have the worst  possible outcome in the form of Gok Wan.

However, there are differences in terms of its usage. Generally, mixed race have fewer scruples in its usage in comparison to BBC's (except those from the North). Typically, British Mixed Race Chinese are alienated from their Chinese roots, Chinese language, Chinese culture and indeed alienated from other Chinese people, the Chinese part of their identity is reduced to the following...

1.  Remnants of genetic mongoloid physical features, i.e their 'eyes,' (hence casual use of term 'Chinky eyes' http://bbczeitgeist.blogspot.com/2011/04/sexy-racism.html
2. Anti-Chinese derogatory phrases and stereotypes tossed up by non-Chinese people (i.e white's) around them, hence the term 'Chink' or 'Chinky' is picked up as a meme and imprinted in their vocabulary for repetition.

Despite claims by British Mixed Race Chinese that they are 'proud of being Chinese,' most are too white washed to have any concept of 'Chineseness,' rather the phrase "I'm proud of my Chinese heritage" is used by Mixed race for self-assurance, to reassure themselves that being of mixed heritage or having some Chinese blood is not negative, or to prove themselves, Gok Wan if probed for his continued inappropriate use of the word Chink as a derogatory disrespectful racial slur towards Chinese...will undoubtedly respond with the following...

 "I'm proud of my Chinese heritage."

For BBC's, the use of the term chink or chinky as a meme is the result of racial abuse or inhabiting social circles that are non-Chinese where the term is liberally used and never questioned, the term chink is brought back into Chinese social circles. Some BBC's can be heard saying..."I work in a chinky.'

Is Gok Wan chink or chinky term progressive?

There is a train of thought that believes Chinese people should adopt these racial terms of abuse created by whites...(in the same way that Blacks have adopted the N-word), or in the same way the term FOB has been adopted by the Chinese communities, that Chinese can now own the word  (or partly own the word) as part of their ethnic vocabulary, in effect to have the term taken away from whites, thus scuppering whites exclusive use of the term to subjugate Chinese, OR... is the term 'chink' never progressive as it simply reinforces the subjugation of Chinese people as low, inferior, cheap, subspecies etc, isn't that precisely what the white man wants and the reason why he wants such a term removed from the conventions of political correctness? Have your say, post your comments below.

(Channel 4 Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth, starts 8pm, Tuesday 14th February 2012)

Hong Konger or Chinese?

Full article REUTERS


As Hong Kong's outgoing leader Donald Tsang looks ahead to retirement, grassroots resentment has boiled over towards the influx of mainland Chinese visitors on a number of fronts, including healthcare and housing, presenting a twilight challenge for Tsang and his government's legacy of symbiotic integration with China. Twenty-eight million mainland Chinese visited Hong Kong last year, around four times the population of the city, many flush with cash and on the hunt for everything from baby formula to hospital beds and luxury brands to high-end apartments. Cross-border marriages have proliferated and Beijing's leaders have bestowed countless economic sweeteners on the city to cement the mainland's embrace of Hong Kong.

Insults are being hurled across the border, with some Hong Kongers decrying the mainland Chinese as "locusts," while one Chinese professor called Hong Kong people "running dogs" of the British.

FLOOD OF CHINA BABIES

One of the most controversial issues has been that of mainland Chinese mothers flocking to Hong Kong hospitals to give birth, partly to circumvent China's one-child policy and also to gain the right of abode in one of China's most developed and wealthiest cities. A broad provision in Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, grants Hong Kong citizenship to any Chinese born here.

In 2010, of the 88,584 newborns in Hong Kong, around a third, or 32,653 were born to mainland women, up from 620 babies in 2001. The influx has spawned an entire industry of agents shuttling Chinese mothers en masse across the border, hiding them in illegal 'inns' before birth.


This week, a group of aggrieved Hong Kongers placed an incendiary front-page advertisement in the city's populist, mass circulation Apple Daily newspaper, denouncing Chinese women for crowding out Hong Kong's hospitals to the extent that maternity wards are booked solid until September.

"Hong Kong people have had enough!"

The ad proclaimed in large Chinese characters beside a picture of a giant locust on a hill overlooking Hong Kong's skyscrapers and iconic harbour. "Stop the invasion of mainland mothers" it added.

On the other side of the argument, there are signs that more and more mainland Chinese are becoming weary of Hong Kong's favoured status...

"If it wasn't the mainland Chinese treating you like a son, you would have died long ago," a retaliatory advertisement, widely circulated on mainland Chinese microblogging sites in response to the locust slurs.

HONG KONGER OR CHINESE

A confluence of other incidents and issues has also stoked debate, protests and frustration. Many Hong Kongers blame wealthy mainland Chinese for driving property prices beyond the reach of local citizens. Mainland Chinese snapped up around a third of residential flats last year, according to Nomura research, and home prices have risen as much as 70 percent since 2009.

Last year, mainland mothers, spooked by China's toxic melamine milk powder scare, bought up massive stocks of tinned milk powder from Hong Kong stores, leaving bare shelves and anxious Hong Kong mothers scouring shops citywide for formula.


The gripes found another lightning rod last month when a heated argument between a Hong Kong man who castigated a mainland Chinese visitor and her daughter on the city's subway for eating a bowl of noodles, went viral on YouTube.

The feud spurred a Peking University professor, Kong Qingdong, to call Hong Kong people "dogs" for their cultural superiority. His comments incensed many in Hong Kong and triggered a media backlash as well as protests outside China's Hong Kong liaison office.


Results from one of Hong Kong's most respected public opinion surveys suggested growing resentment towards mainland China. A December poll on the extent to which Hong Kongers identified themselves as Chinese citizens first or as a Hong Konger first dropped to 17 percent, the lowest level in 12 years.
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Excellent Blog covering the latest Hongkonger v Mainland issues http://badcanto.wordpress.com/tag/china/

Why British Born Chinese Shouldn't Be Expected To Speak Chinese

- Do all British Africans speak African?
- Do all British Pakistanis speak Pakistani?

You dont hear of British Born Pakistanis or British Born Africans do you?

Establishing your native language is an important part of  defining your cultural identity - look at the following video clip found on youtube - courtesy of BBCzeitgeist member and blogger BBCRonin.

 BBCronins original link can be viewed here: http://bbcronin.blogspot.com/2011/09/chinese-with-british-accent-weird.html

 

The above capture which I stole from BBCronin's site which is basically a capture from the comments section of the video with youtube usernames deleted -  as you can see - plenty of racist comments made about the  show presenter, Kai who is a BBC - and the perception that its odd for him to be a native English speaker- why do you think that is?

Has anyone thought that by having our own media exposure - even without expressing the complexities of our own cause- that the most necessary cause is to express the fact that English is our native language?

Can anyone imagine what it's like to be thought of as not being able to speak English despite it being your native language and live in the UK and have to go to local shops and be assumed that you cant speak English wherever you go and only to have to live there for years to 'earn respect of the locals' through familiarity, until one day the neighbourhood changes and you have to justify yourself all over again to those new people who have just moved in despite having you having lived there for over 10 years? Embarassing much?

Despite our British Chinese media image being made invisible by HAPAS and our Chinese in Britain status over-emphasized and orientalised by FOBS who cannot help but speak bad English, if we want to be seen as 'regular British natives', then we have to make an EFFORT to portray our image as just that.

Let's face it 'British Chinese' identity is a loose generalised apolitical term for 'Chinese living in Britain' .

Do FOBS honestly even consider themselves British Chinese? Or just Chinese?

If we have British Chinese FOBS who cant speak English and HAPAs are happy to be 'East Asian' - a deliberately loose terminology that has been adopted to replace the only slightly worse term 'Oriental' but still does little for the British Chinese identity...

 The only way forward is for British Born Chinese to empower ourselves to make our name distinguishable from the other British Chinese, recognisable and not one that is apologetic to FOBS, HAPAS or anyone else, but one that is clear and concise, with more meaning than 'Chinese in Britain'

Finally...

Some of you may be reading this and ticked the following boxes:

- speak Chinese language and English language
- embrace my Chinese culture
- havent interbreeded and my children if i have any are full Chinese.

But creating culture unfortunately isnt the same as reproducing and  dumping the responsibility onto your future BBC child who could end up being a well spoken accountant .To break the stereotypes that have bombarded for ages, we have to start now.
 
PS: BBCRonin if you are reading this, please get back to me so I can get full permission for using your capture, your blog doesnt have an email address to contact you, thanks