China girls immigrated to Canada.

Behind learning Chinese is the problem of seeking the roots of overseas Chinese culture. Why can't I speak Chinese? ?

Recently, there was a video in Tik Tok Tiktok, which caused many overseas Chinese to scream. In the video, Mikayla, a 5-year-old Canadian Chinese girl, threw herself in her mother's arms and cried. While comforting her, her mother leanne asked: Why are you sad? ? Why are you sad? ) Micara replied:? Because I really want to learn Chinese? (Because I really want to learn Chinese)

There was something else. Recently, my mother leanne and her daughter watched the movie Mulan together. In order to make sure that Micara can understand the film, she often explains the story to her through pauses. Mother said to her daughter Micara: You and Mulan have a lot in common. You all look the same (Chinese face). You are the first child in the family like her. You are as brave, honest and loyal as her. ?

Just then, my daughter Micara asked, But she can speak Chinese, can't she? ? Mom:? Yes, the movie dialogue is in English, but the real Mulan speaks Chinese. ? Daughter:? So is she a real person? ? Mom:? In a way, yes. ? Daughter:? How cool! I want to speak Chinese too?

When Micara's mother leanne told her that her grandparents could also speak Chinese, she was completely shocked. So there is a 5 1 second mother-daughter bedtime conversation.

Perhaps it has aroused the concern of too many overseas second-generation immigrant Chinese. This video was clicked and forwarded by tens of millions of people overnight, and many netizens left messages saying that it was loud.

A film leads to the cultural roots of three generations of China people.

The little girl's mother, leanne, is a second-generation Canadian immigrant. According to her own introduction, there were few Chinese in the Canadian town where she grew up, so all her friends spoke English. Although she attended a Chinese cram school as a child, she gradually only spoke English without a language environment.

Although her husband is from China after marriage, they usually speak English with their children at home and her parents speak Cantonese, but they don't live with them in Canada. Children lack a Chinese environment all the year round and hardly know that they have another mother tongue.

Micara cried and asked, Why can't I speak Chinese when I am from China? Leanne said that when she was a child, she had to learn Chinese every weekend, so she couldn't watch cartoons like other friends, so she had a resistance to learning Chinese. Friends around her often because of her? Unlike them? Making fun of her increased her rejection of her own culture.

Although leanne's parents tried their best to speak Cantonese with her at home, leanne, who had her own opinions, insisted on answering in English. So now leanne can only speak English.

Just like thousands of immigrant parents, how to keep their children from abandoning their mother tongue? It is an almost impossible task. In addition to the lack of language environment, systematic racial discrimination may also contribute. ?