Saturday, July 02, 2005

hmmz..gonna go cut hair tomorrow with lindy. then sunday going ian's house. monday should be going out with celeste. yup. was watching this talkshow or something like that about learning chinese. seriously i don't get why is it so hard for chinese to learn their own language. they complain about having to memorize and nothing else and so on. u telling me u don't have to memorize content of other subjects? they say they apply the content. u telling me u don't apply chinese? all nonsense. those things the two girls say. about being more respected if you're english speaking, about how we don't have to do business with chinese if we can't speak chinese, about how chinese is so hard to learn, about how chinese culture is not relevant and everything. they are a disgrace. they fail to even appreciate their own culture and take pride in their own language. and they are so proud of it. the education system has made it seem like english is everything and chinese is not even relevant. just look at the requirements for university admission. D7 for AO Chinese? that's a fail. we are neither here nor there. we try so hard to be 'english', cool and everything and imitate the caucasians but we are not good in english, unable to appreciate and take pride in our own culture and language. what does that make us? ultimately, we are still chinese. no matter how the trend goes or what we prefer, we are still chinese.

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