February, 2011 // Posts published in February, 2011
Iris Chang: The Woman Who Could Not Forget
From reader Thekla: “I am about finished reading– with lots of interest, the advance reading copy of the book sent to me by the editor. I can feel the heart-warming, intimate, unfailing and trusting mother-daughter relationship between YingYing and Iris, which moves me to tears at many points in the book With “The Rape of Nanking”, Iris ...
Foreign ’sounding names’ discriminated?
Yesterday, one of our readers shared an interesting news article that was first published a couple of years back in the Globe and Mail newspaper. The news item explored the issue of how a foreign sounding name, may decrease one’s chance of landing a job interview. We find this interesting, as we’ve also found the reverse to ...
4th generation Canadian is too Asian for Macleans
Multi-generational Canadian, Brad Lee, indicated last fall’s Maclean’s “news” article makes him and other Canadians of Asian descent less Canadian. Sitting as a panelist exploring the issue of why certain Canadians had been identified as different, Mr Lee opened the dialogue with: I’m a fourth-generation Chinese-Canadian. I’m Canadian through and through. What the fuck am I ...
DDouble Ttalk with Paraprosdokian sentences
… “If I could say a few words, I’d be a better public speaker.” —Homer Simpson We’ve always loved the magic of language on our blog. It’s something many of our word challenged Chinese-Canadian flavoured politicians should figure out. The choice of words, the ability to create new meaning by shuffling words and sentences around… and the innocence of spelling ...
We are all related
Thanks to reader “Poo on Me”, the following PBS documentary on the two legged organism, otherwise known as man, was shared with our readers. The video is approximately 2 hours long, and essentially track the travels of our species (via a genetic marker) from our ancestors’ birth place in Africa, to our nursery in Central Asia… ...
Limbaugh sees a Scrotum in the mirror
A few weeks back, the President of China, Mr Hu Jintao made a visit to the U.S., and was greeted by the President of the United States, Mr Barrack Obama. On TV later that evening, some fat dick by the name of Rush Limbaugh got bent out of shape – from a fat blob to that ...
BC’s 1910 Chinese New Year Headline!
We’ve been helping one of our colleagues research all sorts of interesting historic stuff on the Chinese in Canada… the racist laws that were made, and the profiting by government over the Chinese head tax. To capture the flavour of the day – on how the Chinese were so ‘warmly’ received here in British Columbia… we ...
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