I'm not saying you are, unfortunately I'm very familiar with the scenario which you described.
I'm just saying that there're inconsiderate people wherever you go. However, what bugs the living daylight out of you may be perfectly acceptable to others...
Regarding the other point - I recently had the pleasure of watching "where's the party yaar", I know it's only supposed to be a comedy but I think there's a social comment in there somewhere.
I'm going back to Hong Kong pretty soon (early March, we must meet up when you're in town).
Rgds, Calvin
ps - my Chinese sucks egg too...
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
calvin wrote:
>> the backcountry ones at least .. like the chinese from hong kong's
> huge hinterland
>
> There're rude people everywhere you go man, that's just a fact of
> life... I've seen all sorts (except for Japanese) talking loudly on
Hey, its nothing aimed at cantonese - not when I work on a daily basis
with chinese colleagues.
It is just that stereotypes are part of what makes "life" .. I've seen
lots of HK people who murmur into their phones with one palm shielding
the mouthpiece when they're in public, as well as the sort with a belt
full of expensive phones who talk loudly ..
>>some of the more citi-fied indians - and chinese - wouldnt be caught
> dead speaking hindi / tamil / cantonese among each other, especially
>
>
> I would consider myself to be rather "citified", however, I'm not
> ashamed of my roots/race/language and would never confuse the two.
Oh - I've seen examples of both these, trust me. I wouldnt at all say
that everybody is like this, but I have seen such types and I know they
exist. Just as I know that crude and badly behaved people exist. In all
cultures. That's just what makes stereotypes what they are, so that
very little effort, if at all, is necessary to transplant a sterotype
from one culture to another.
In fact there's very little work needed to transplant a racial joke from
one culture to another, so that jokes about poles turn into jokes about
sardarjis when they're told in india, and jokes about stingy scotsmen
(start with "scotch tape", and how it got its name) can easily turn into
jokes about marwadis ..
regards
--srs
ps - I'm tamil, myself - not ashamed of speaking tamil except for the
fact that I've been in so many other indian states when I was growing
up, all with a different language, that I cant read or write it too well
and even my spoken tamil has a really weird accent.
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