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From local Canadian stand view, those from HongKong (Cantonese speakers) impressed local white residents with "Chinese" who lived with them for a century. If you also stand at the same point, Cantonese can be considered so-called "主流". In fact, Cantonese also classified themselves as a higher level than those from Taiwan island and Mainland.
If you're frustrated with this viewpoint, please look around those successful stories Cantonese achieved, such as Cantonese Executives in private sectors and Politicians and senior position holders in the various level of governments, Business owners...
资足长乐 发表于 2013-4-24 16:23 ![]()
Looks like you didn't understand what the author was talking about. The so-called "主流" he refereed to were those from mainland China, came to Canada as graduate students then became landed residents and Canadian citizen. And he was called them "主流" of overseas Chinese.
What you said about those Cantonese, some of them had pretty good achievement even became a Senator. But, they hardly have any influence in Chinese people. In fact, those are the people who were actively fighting for the right of eating shark fins. They are not the mainstream Canadian, they are not mainstream Chinese, either. They are the reason why many Canadian don't like Chinese. |
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