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The Chinese experience in ItalyPosted by Joel Martinsen on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 6:54 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). What is in the minds of overseas Chinese youths?: At Asia Sentinel, Alice Poon translates Xu Zhiyuan's story of the experiences of a father and his son during their seven-year stay in Italy: While the father fully appreciates the comfort and opportunities his new place of domicile has to offer and thoroughly enjoys his new experiences, the son struggles to find his true identity and station in life in the strange land, often depressed by unhappy personal experiences which he believes have something to do with his ethnicity.
Xiao Wu is against split pants, the Chinese toddler’s traditional togs, saying they contribute to children being toilet trained at too early an age, before the youngsters can control their bodily functions properly. And she counsels Chinese parents not to expect unconditional obedience from their child because doing so interferes with the child’s development as an individual.
Ding Lu (丁露), director of China's National Judicial Examination Center, told Xinhua news agency that many Taiwanese want to take the exam to obtain qualifications to practice law in China. |
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Comments on The Chinese experience in Italy
Overseas Chinese is a very broad term - you can be talking about Chinese transplanting into third world countries, Europe, America, Australia or other parts of Asia. The cultural differences, plus diversity in social status of these ethnic Chinese, are sometimes strong enough to overwhelm the ethnicity influences.