I'm Canadian...or am I chinese?

[Peegee]

What does it mean to say that I'm Chinese? I honestly do not understand, since I refer to myself as 'Canadian'.

My arguments that I'm not chinese are as follows:

- my passport says I'm Canadian
- when I go to Hong Kong or China I have to go to the 'foreigners' queue. There's a 'Chinese' queue for Chinese people and an 'Foreigners' queue for the rest of the planet.
- There's a Canadian flag tattooed to my neck for some reason
- My last name is not indicative of my Chinese-ness. If I married, that person could take my last name and...become Chinese? Wat

That said, the argument that I'm chinese:

- My birth certificate might say that I'm Chinese. I'm not sure. I have to check

Two topics: what do you have to say to my spa...argument? And do you view yourself as a different nationality than um...I'm not sure how to finish the question since I don't consider race a valid term.

kgo!

[rubah]

I JUDGE YOU BY YOUR FEATURES AND THE ASIA YOU CALCULATES.

[Hythloday]

You are obviously Chanadianese.

IDK, it's kinda like how in America every darker skinned person is "african-american", even if they or their ancestors weren't from Africa. I think everyone is still getting use to this global meshing we're all doing.

Also, you get called Chinese more than Asian?

[Peegee]

I JUDGE YOU BY YOUR FEATURES AND THE ASIA YOU CALCULATES.

This is a useless statement. I finally know what it's like to be friends with me.

[q]You are obviously Chanadianese. [/q]

That's better. Wait what?

[Madame Adequate]

I am human.

[Christmas]

CBC? Canadian Born Chinese?

[Peegee]

I am human.

That doesn't address my question (the first sentence). We're all human, but what does it mean to call somebody Chinese or Asian or African American ( Americans call anybody who's dark african american; it's PC!)?

[q]CBC? Canadian Born Chinese? [/q]

I wasn't born in Canada. Does this mean I'm not Canadian? What does this mean?

[Pheesh]

You're stuck in a vortex of un-belongingness, and your only hope is duel citizenship or something of that nature.

[Aerith's Knight]

I am human.

[Inferno]

To be canadian, you must love hockey

[Madame Adequate]

I am human.

That doesn't address my question (the first sentence). We're all human, but what does it mean to call somebody Chinese or Asian or African American

It means they are caught up in their deluded, parochial, mypoic categorization of the world into arbitrary and ultimately irrelevant divisions which have done nothing - NOTHING - since the dawn of time except incite war, genocide, hatred, resentment, ignorance, and a whole host of other ills.

[Peegee]

I am human.

That doesn't address my question (the first sentence). We're all human, but what does it mean to call somebody Chinese or Asian or African American

It means they are caught up in their deluded, parochial, mypoic categorization of the world into arbitrary and ultimately irrelevant divisions which have done nothing - NOTHING - since the dawn of time except incite war, genocide, hatred, resentment, ignorance, and a whole host of other ills.

You sound angry

So if I were to call myself Chinese I'm causing wars?

[rubah]

I dunno, stereotyping has a pretty good accuracy-- I'd say about 35%! close enough for engineering purposes

[oddler]

It means they are caught up in their deluded, parochial, mypoic categorization of the world into arbitrary and ultimately irrelevant divisions which have done nothing - NOTHING - since the dawn of time except incite war, genocide, hatred, resentment, ignorance, and a whole host of other ills.

My serious answer is this.

My other serious answer is that if you are of Canada or its people, then you're Canadian. If you are of China or its people, then you're Chinese. You're both but I really don't see the point in tacking a long list of everything you are together to describe yourself. If that's the case then I'm a feel-good, dirty blond, male member of EoFF who doesn't vote.

[Madame Adequate]

You sound angry

So if I were to call myself Chinese I'm causing wars?

You know how I am about countries and suchlike The perpetuation of the belief that people are different based on where they were born, and that people should be treated differently based on where they are born, as is as disgusting to me as basing such different treatment on race or gender is to most in the modern day.