Do you hate self-haters?
I don't care if they hate themselves, but if they hate their own culture or country I really despise them.
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novembermoon · 51-55
This makes me wonder about people who migrate out of their country, and become citizens in another, probably one in which they become a minority. Sometimes people move because of an oppressive political regime. In such a case, the country is more the regime than the culture. No matter how developed or successful the country becomes later on, the person may feel no affection for the country because he feels too many personal freedoms had been sacrificed in the making. We see this in many first generation Chinese who migrated to the west.
I despise more the ones who hate their culture. That is something I cannot understand. I do not take kindly to people not knowing their native language and customs. Such ones are like seeds blown by the wind, having wings but no roots. I do not like people who adapt too easily. They scare me. A Chinese person who does not speak a word of Chinese and loves all things western is to me like a banana- yellow on the outside and white on the inside. No, I don't like bananas at all.
I despise more the ones who hate their culture. That is something I cannot understand. I do not take kindly to people not knowing their native language and customs. Such ones are like seeds blown by the wind, having wings but no roots. I do not like people who adapt too easily. They scare me. A Chinese person who does not speak a word of Chinese and loves all things western is to me like a banana- yellow on the outside and white on the inside. No, I don't like bananas at all.
Sssslm · F
i understand which kind of people you mean. i consider them to be complete foreigners, how they look really doesn't matter. there are also people who pretend to be bananas and this is also understandable because in our world, moving out means that your family is rich. being rich gets you respect in many situations. Nevertheless this has become less popular in recent years with the growing wealth on our side of the world.
novembermoon · 51-55
@Sssslm: I like that in certain parts of the world, Chinese dialects are still in use. I can only speak a few words in Hainanese and I find it a great loss because it was my grandparents' language. No matter how fluently I write in English, I concede it is not my mother tongue. It never will be. I have mixed feelings about it. But I know for certain that I will never love it the way I love Chinese and the dialects I grew up with.
Sssslm · F
@novembermoon: i also have mixed feelings with languages. my reading and written proficiency in english is much better than in chinese due to long years of academic training, but i will never know the native ways of communication. what happens here is that the local communicate by mixing the 2 languages together in each sentence.
novembermoon · 51-55
Sssslm · F
@novembermoon: i read 1984 in 2nd school. there was one incident about the big brother eradicating words to control people's mind. there was a guy who thought this move was genious, because when they no longer had the word freedom, they wouldn't know the concept of freedom. this guy was eradicated later as well because he was too clever to think about the word 'concept'. the big brother in our big neighboring country has been unifying different parts of its own by means of language, everyone there has to use mandarin. they are pushing us to do that too by forcing schools to use mandarin to teach chinese. we are worrying that our own language cantonese would be gone, and lots of ideas, concepts, thinking in our culture would be gone too if we no longer have the words to talk about them. for this reason i hate mandarin, and simplified chinese, they are conquering our culture. sorry i know u are using them there, i know it s irrelevant to your country.
novembermoon · 51-55
I attended a conference there in HK a few years ago. One of the profs there looked at the group of us from Singapore with disdain when we spoke about language in our curriculum. I understand why. I always feel that we have given up too much of our identity and our roots in the name of 'progress' . I felt sad that day. I respect very much that Cantonese is still used there in HK. It is what binds the people and gives them an identity.