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 > <clipped> > > 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.
