Why not? I eat teh pork i use teh chopsticks i get loads of angpows and i scold t*u n*a s*ng when i'm really pissed -pirate I'm proud to be chinese >.<
i agree with the you are what your roots are thing.. just cause your born somewhere else doesn't mean your still not chinese. even if you or your parents don't speak chinese anymore.. the fact that your ancestors are chinese makes you chinese.. im chinese ... proud to be one.. australian too...
Born in Australia, Parents born in HK But I'm proud to be Chinese! Blood flows on and you should be proud of your culture
Born in Canada, Parents from HK/Macau Speak fluent Cantonese Listen to HK, TW, Japanese, Korean Songs Watch HK, TW, Japanese, Korean Dramas Many Chinese Friends Awesome to be Chinese/Asian
I do believe at some point, your culture is up to you to choose. If you associate yourself w/ being Chinese more than any other group, you are. People may question you if your color/parentage is somewhat off, but if you're speaking Chinese to 'em, watching TVB, and playing MJ - they'll have to relent xP
I consider myself Chinese and Hong Kongese and American. No matter what happens, I claim all nationalities. haha. My parents were born in Hong Kong, my grandma is from GwongDong. I just claim all!
Passport has nothing to do with whether you are Chinese or not. All those people that live outside China probably have different passport. You are Chinese as long as you inherent Chinese blood or your anscetors are from china. Passport is just an excuse to differentiate yourself from the fact that you have Chinese blood inside you.
yes, i consider myself a pure blood chinese even though i'm not born in china and neither were my parents. we speak our chinese dialect at home and i have always been proud to be chinese.
i see that most ppl who are chinese that have been born in a different country consider themselves to be chinese. however, if u look at well in the uk, there are many people who are of black ethnic origin that have been born in the uk that consider themselves to be english. i find this quite fascinating. this also stems to the point that whether ur chinese or not or another race depends on what u want urself to be and what culture u would like to be in. however, i wonder if one of ur parents is chinese and the other another origin that is completely different say white, what would ppl consider themselves to be then and they lived in like another country such as france say.
I would never abandon my Chinese roots! It is my pride and a part of who I am! My parents were born in HK and moved to the U.S. in the late 1960's, and since a very young age, I've been instilled with a sense of affiliation to my own Chinese identity. I was well aware of the fact that I was Chinese and I spoke Cantonese with my family and joyfully took part in our cultural traditions and rituals. Since the past generations of my family originated from Canton (Guangdong), China, I have a connection with not just Hong Kong, but with Canton as well, although my ancestors were pretty much dispersed throughout Canton - some originated from Sunwui, some from Toisan, and some from Hoiping. So I identify myself as a person of Southern Chinese descent, haha. At the same time, I am a U.S. citizen and was born there, so I claim myself as an American as well. In other words, I'm American-born Chinese.
i am chinese. i did feel that i was chinese until i visited china after living the in the us for over 20years. i have to to realize that the american culture i have grown up in have shaped me to who am in--though i am chinese on the outside, i am american. i think of myself as "american-chinese".
Panda, you are confused between the differences , especially the more subtle ones, in meaning of the words: race, nationality, country, language, birth place, genetics, country of origin, ethnic origin, citizenship, country of residence etc. If you were to be English, I know that you are not, you would call most whites in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, South Africa... to be English and you would not accept them as Australians, New Zealanders, Americans, South Africans, Falklanders,....etc. You would say that all these countries were territories inherited from the British Empire and that they are all English citizens! Of course, many of these people could claim British citizenship if one of the grand parents were from United Kingdom but they still have their own nationality today in these countries! When you go to the USA's immigration site they have defined Macau as being in the same class as Europe, why, because the people of Macao have same rights as Portugese! You need to accept these differences! Without a shadow of a doubt many hundreds of millions of overseas ex-pats had benefitted enormously by having a passport different to that of China's and why shouldn't the Taiwanese! Hundreds of millions of English people had benefitted too by not having an English passport too: they are called Aussies, Canadians, New Zealanders.. Millions of Jews do not have Israeli passport too, hundred of millions of Indians do not hold Indian passport. Good luck to them all , they all liked to be independent from their source countries and made their own choice by voting with their own feet and settled elsewhere. Vast majority of them are better off by having different loyalities and why shouldn't they think differently?!-smart I am definitely in favour of more countries, the more countries the more opportunities! E.g. If you have 10 countries you can have 10 national champions. In one country you can only have one national champion, very bad news if you are number 2, 3, 4 th in the ranking! Just imagine, when you split up a big country into 10 countries you can have 10 votes in United Nations, 10 ballet champions, 10 Pop Charts, 10 different film awards, 10 best national restaurants, 10 armies, 10 Chairmen, 10 entries in the Olympics, the opportunities are just endless.....hooray to diversity and enterprise! One of every thing as a single country is bad news. Especially with Asian people as they always like the BEST, when you have 10 countries , you can have 10 BEST's! 10 is 9 times more 1!
from my opinion In line with my previous post, my opinion of you is:- Country of Residence: America Country of birth = ?? Nationality = American Culture and Customs : American Primary or everyday language = American English (?) Country to fight for = America Passport = USA Race=? Partner = American? Parents = American passport holders ? Name: Chinese first name only or do you have American first name? When you go to Peoples' Republic of China = you go through the alien channel If you are in trouble abroad = you go to American Embassy So my conclusion is that you are American and harder to justify anything else!!!
