March, 2007 // Posts published in March, 2007
Ethically challenged Chinese Canadians
Always do your homework. Learn about the validity of claims made by a person. Watch his/her behaviour and decide whether this person reflects the positive ideals we all hope to aspire to. Anyone can say they believe in this and believe in that, and anyone can say they support whatever it is you are passionate about. ...
Normie Kwong, the China Clipper
Great positive role models. That’s what all great communities have in common. The more altruistic and honourable their hero, the more united and the more successful the community becomes. As some of you may know, I have a fondness for our great Canadian game – CFL football. There’s no other game like it – great sportsmanship, real ...
Glass ceilings made in Canada
This notion has been talked about ever since there has been “Orientals” in Canada. During the early days of our young nation, it was difficult for the Oriental to get accepted into a Canadian university. And those who earned their pieces of paper identifying their respective disciplines, were barred from becoming that professional – be it ...
Canadian born Chinese – a colour game
Here is a primer so our occidental politicians realize that there is a difference. What difference are we referring to? A few years back, our Great White north had a leader who felt it in his heart to apologize for the ills of his forefathers. A terrible historic ill that was based on a person’s skin colour. ...
Chinese Canadian creativity
At the dinner honouring retired Professor Emeritus Ed Wickberg last week, I bumped into many familiar faces … people I hadn’t seen in decades. One of them was Karin Lee, now a film maker. I remember Karin as a teeny bopper when I worked alongside her brother back in the 1970’s when we bananas were ...
the Crisis of Chinese Culture
The connecting of dots. This is what I find so intriguing about this whole internet world of ours. After I had wrote last Friday’s post on “the Ugly Chinaman”, I started getting more and more interested in the works of Bo Yang. I couldn’t help but to realize that what I’ve been ranting and belly aching ...
Comfort women and Prime Ministers
Our English language often get usurped by spin doctors – masking ideas with euphemism. Or should we say… associating a new meaning to a word or phrase. This dynamic nature of words is a natural evolution of how humans interact and communicate. But sometimes, it shows how powerful the ability to spin words can ...
slanted politics
Canadian federal election in the summer? No, the election is next year. NO, early Fall election! view from behind the infamous Faye Leung ©tUCC Every week, I get an email from some Einstein predicting the election call. Really, who cares. Everyone is gearing up for the inevitable election as can be seen by the many scheduled MSG feastings … all ...
Chinese v/s English media in Vancouver
The Vancouver Chinese language media and the English language media appear to work independent of one another. And this ethnic /mainstream media community is a reasonable micro-cosmic reflection of the population at large here in Vancouver. Vancouver. A city that often pats itself on it’s back for it’s gushing ownership of “diversity” and “multi-culturalism” – two ...
Myth of Canadian Multiculturalism
I got this email today. I guess it underscores the whole notion that if you say something often enough, people will believe you. In this case, all this squawking about Canadian “multiculturalism” or a Canadian “mosaic” (the old marketing term). There are industries all over the map promoting (and cashing in on) the multicultural spin here ...
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