I agree with this comment from Souvenir Kattunge, “Mind you, if you looked at the other communities, the Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, etc. The trend is very similar. North Americans like to consider themselves as very tolerant of things like mixed marriages but it’s more like they’re tolerant of mixed marriages that don’t involve their family members.”
I have learned a lot since the last post on racism in Hong Kong, having filmed and interviewed many great people. Time to empty my head…
Fortunately for me, I got to chill out with the ‘Sikhs in the City‘, the first HK-born Indian Dragon Boat Race team. Team leader Gurmeet Singh expressed their excitement at getting to take part in something that even his Father’s generation hadn’t. Anyone watching (and many people did) as the 12 Punjabi men switched seemlessly between Punjabi and Cantonese (and English to speak to me), could plainly see how someone can be both Indian AND Hongkongnese. And the people around them really seemed to appreciate them (at least on Cheung Chau they did).
We sat to eat an array of Chinese seafood dishes. And the irony was that I (with a Chinese appearance) was the only one struggling with chopsticks. Funnily enough…
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