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板凳
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发表于 2013-8-21 12:21:25
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http://rabble.ca/news/2010/11/ma ... on-higher-education
In 1979, Canadian students produced a TV program called Campus Giveaway against what they called a "foreign" (i.e. Chinese-Canadian) takeover of university campuses. Chinese-Canadian students protested the equating of "Chinese" with "foreign" and challenged the exaggerated statistics used to justify the arguments of the program.
Some 30 years later, the same sentiment re-surfaces, albeit in a different guise. In a recent Toronto Star article originally titled "Asian students suffering for success," Louise Brown reported on a GTA Asian parents conference organized to encourage "East Asian" parents to consider alternatives to university education for their children. The article simultaneously referred to a Maclean's magazine article about "Asian" and "East Asian" students (debatable categories themselves) signifying a growing demographic imbalance of ethnically insular cliques.
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Brown is misleading in her portrayal of "Asian" as interchangeable with a Chinese stereotype of unchanging, decontextualized traditional values -- such as Confucian principles of hard work and obedience. Together the fixed ethnic traits and claims by the GTA conference organizers of Chinese emotional imbalances depict "Asian" bodies as inherently dysfunctional, though desirable for their propensity for workaholism. This specific representation is severed from experiences of labour subordination not only in Chinese, but Filipino, Indian, Cambodian, Thai, Malaysian, Korean and Japanese communities, from multiple homelands, born in Canada or not -- this list is not exhaustive. |
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