Video of China girl immigrating to Canada

Not long ago, a video was circulated on the Internet. At a ceremony in France, a Chinese girl recited a diary written by a reporter studying in France. Frankly speaking, the little girl's Chinese pronunciation is not standard, and I don't understand some paragraphs. However, at such an important ceremony, it is of great significance to be able to read aloud in your own mother tongue. Because no matter where you live in the world, the characteristics of black hair and yellow skin have been deeply engraved in your body as genes.

The Hollywood film Crazy Rich Asian (translated from Hongkong), which had a big fire in North America before, was able to sell well in North China, except because westerners were curious about orientals, especially China people, and more American audiences actually found a kind of * * * sound. The younger generation began to resist and resist, but now they have begun to reflect and try to accept it. This has to be said to be a great progress. Of course, this is also due to the rise of China, which makes China and China people become an important symbol in the world pattern.

Nowadays, more and more Canadian-born children in China are sent by their parents to local Chinese schools to learn Chinese. Although they only have one Chinese class a week, the time is quite limited, but the language in China and the culture in China are subtly changing the children. Even the granddaughter of the president of the United States can recite Tang poems and be proudly posted on the Internet by her family. It is conceivable that Chinese has become the language that more and more people in the world learn. Many years ago, her song "China People" also predicted this popular trend.

Bao Xiao, my sister's son, should be regarded as a better Chinese speaker among China children of the same age. I have met many friends in Bao Xiao. They look like children in China, but they can't speak a word of Chinese. Some of them can understand Cantonese, but they don't know Mandarin at all. Interestingly, my sister's persistent pursuit of domestic TV series is of great help to Bao Xiao in learning Chinese. I often ask Bao Xiao, what movie are you watching now? Then he shared it with me with relish. Children always inevitably have many traces of parental influence. Although Bao Xiao was born and raised in Sri Lanka, his sister and brother-in-law both taught him to learn Chinese well. And I'm sure I can speak Chinese at home. I quite agree with this idea.

I used to know a local CBC (Canadian-born China, also called "American-born China", with yellow skin and white heart). He once proudly shared something with me that made him feel very angry. He and his western colleagues went to China on business. When all China people see his face of china, they will naturally communicate with him in Chinese first. But in fact, he can't speak, listen, read or write any Chinese at all. Finally, I need that western colleague who can speak Chinese to translate Chinese into English and explain it to him. He asked me angrily, why do I have to understand Chinese if I have a Chinese face? !

At that time, I heard that I actually felt a little sorry for him, because he said that he didn't learn Chinese because he looked down on his parents who were immigrants but worked hard. Because my parents' English is poor, they can only do low-paid jobs. His parents actually speak Cantonese at home, but he is very exclusive and refuses to communicate with them in Cantonese. Later, he refused to communicate with his parents. I don't envy such an indifferent person, even if he drives a good car and has a high salary.

I also heard the teacher elder sister share a regrettable thing with us. She held a party with her friends, who brought their two children. Her two children don't want to speak Chinese, so they talk in English in front of adults. Because the teacher's sister's friend's English is not good, the child mistakenly thinks that his mother's friend must have poor English, so he laughs and criticizes his mother for being stupid in English. The teacher's sister's friend looks at the child with a loving smile because he doesn't understand what the child is saying at all. Sister Shi said that she felt a little sorry for her friend at that moment.

I have always believed that for China children born and raised overseas, learning Chinese is actually a new understanding and acceptance of themselves. Only by not avoiding their true China ancestry can we better break down cultural barriers and better integrate into local life. Canada is a multicultural country. If even the locals are open and tolerant to foreign cultures and foreigners, as children with China blood in their bodies, why should they resist and deny a part of themselves?

Perhaps in the future, the phrase we used to be familiar with will become "Learn Chinese well and travel around the world without fear".