China is a manufacturing colossus. Britons are surrounded by products sporting the legend 'Made in China'.
Gok Wan returns to his ancestral home to explore the largely unseen world of Chinese mass production, meeting the people working in the factories that supply the West.
He visits the village his father grew up in for the first time as part of a journey of discovery round a country that now produces one in every four man-made objects on the planet.
Gok goes to 'Jeans Town', 'Bra Town', the factory that makes London cabs, and 'Thames Town', as well as to ultra-modern Shanghai, where he meets a stylist pushing the boundaries in Chinese fashion.
Gok Wan Made In China Channel 4 8pm Wednesday 7th March 2012
Not content with calling Chinese 'Chinks' - CLICK HERE , if you missed his latest programme where the bumbling buffoon Gok Wan calls Chinese People 'Chinaman,' whilst his father calls himself yellow - WATCH IT HERE: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gok-wan-made-in-china/4od#3298240
Discussing Controversial Issues Affecting The British Chinese Community UK
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Monday, 5 March 2012
Teenage Girl Beaten In Nasty Racist Attack In Plymouth
A man yelled, 'Hey, Chinese!' at the lone Chinese international student before battering her several times in the face and stomach.
The Chinese teenager, who said she had been a victim of discriminatory abuse in the past, managed to break free from her attacker and run home.
But police are desperate for witnesses after she required hospital treatment for a badly bruised and swollen face. The Plymouth University student, who does not wish to be named, had been at a city nightclub with friends and was walking home alone through Armada Way when the attack happened.
She said she was speaking on her mobile phone when a man approached her aggressively, then physically assaulted her.
The young woman, a second-year biomedical science student, said: "I was walking along looking at the floor so I didn't really see much that was happening around me."
"Some guy just came up and said, 'Hey, Chinese!', then he punched me on the left side of my face. It was more than one punch. I actually blacked out for two seconds, and he punched my stomach right away...At that point I pushed him away and I ran to my place."
The young victim, who lives close to the scene of the attack, said she had been subjected to "a lot of discrimination" in the past, and had tried to ignore it.
But she added: "Afterwards, right away, I was really scared. I was freaked out.
"I'm lucky that he didn't break anything."
Is racism to Chinese students becoming more violent?
Full article here: http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Teenage-girl-beaten-nasty-racist-attack-Plymouth/story-15280343-detail/story.html
Thursday, 1 March 2012
British Chinese Kickboxing Association
' Jet Li? Oo's that ? Ah loov Van Damme me! '
Take a look at the following website :
Like many of these kinds of martial arts schools in the UK, its a franchise. The website states the following:
"The BCKA is a non-elitist organisation that caters for all. Students of all ages, abilities and either gender are welcome to train with the BCKA and maximise their potential in whichever side of the BCKA they choose to concentrate, whether this be kickboxing for sport or martial arts in its pure form. With top quality instructors, upcoming and proven fighters and unrivalled choice - opt for the BCKA for a true martial art experience."
Non-elitist? This implies that it doesn't matter if the founder isn't Chinese despite being called a British Chinese Martial Arts Association as its open to all. But if its open to all why doesn't it say the word ' races' above? Is it assumed? Does that mean its okay for a British Chinese to enrol?
Well looking at the website, it doesn't look like it...
'Fo' Queen and Country ey oop smell mi chip fat armpits lad'
'Fo me next trick Um gonna poonch dat daft coont out at the local Chinky'
'Ow did dat fookin Paki lad get in da photo?'
British Chinese martial arts as a euphemism for White English barbarianism ?
Whilst Chinese in the UK are scrambling to be accepted by British elitism, Chinese culture is being abused and appropriated in whatever way as seen fit. If 'British Chinese Kickboxing' is just a technicality, they could at least have renamed it ' White English Kickboxing Association guest-starring South Asian janitor.' The example of this school in the north of the UK is not special, it is the same all over the UK - its usually white people teaching Chinese martial arts, there's never a Chinese in sight. Or if its run by a Chinese, the assistants are usually either White or Black.
Kickboxing as we know isn't Chinese, its based in Korean martial arts tae kwon do, most Chinese martial arts that's taught in the UK is Wing Chun. But in the instance that a school can call themselves 'British Chinese' shouldn't it bother British Chinese?
What if those same Chavs used martial arts against you? Wouldnt that be ironic?
There are enough BBCs who want to be White, so why aren't there any BBCs exclusively exploiting White culture?
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