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British Born Chinese at University
I know this isn't a foreight language thread but where else can I put it?
THis thread is going to be just mindless rambling about being chinese. But I can promise you, it'll be fun!
Anyways, let's start this off by -
Name: (doesn't matter)
Uni: (just curious)
Course: (just curious)
What you think of chinese people: lol
After a few of these, people should feel free to comment on previous ones and we'll be slating TVB in no time
I'll get the ball rollling:
Name: Peter Liu
Uni: University of Manchester
Course: Masters of Pharmacy (NOT the universe)
What you think of chinese people:
I think BBC's tend to fall into distinct categories:
-trendy cantonese who only hang around with each other
-clever geeks (but beautiful on the inside)
-clever and cultured (are clever and have clever white/indian friends)
However, I find that those BBCs with Mandarin parents (mainland and usually from Shang Hai or Beijing) seem to fall into mostly the last two (in fact all the ones I know are in medical school or doing PhDs!!). Also get the feeling most of them have parents of an academic background whilst a lot of cantonese BBC's have parents in catering (takewaways!!) What both groups have in common is they play the piano and can't have a proper meal without rice.
I don't mean to cause offence to anyone reading this and if I do I apologise. Just thought it would be fun to open up discussion about BBCs and their views on well.....us...
THis thread is going to be just mindless rambling about being chinese. But I can promise you, it'll be fun!
Anyways, let's start this off by -
Name: (doesn't matter)
Uni: (just curious)
Course: (just curious)
What you think of chinese people: lol
After a few of these, people should feel free to comment on previous ones and we'll be slating TVB in no time
I'll get the ball rollling:
Name: Peter Liu
Uni: University of Manchester
Course: Masters of Pharmacy (NOT the universe)
What you think of chinese people:
I think BBC's tend to fall into distinct categories:
-trendy cantonese who only hang around with each other
-clever geeks (but beautiful on the inside)
-clever and cultured (are clever and have clever white/indian friends)
However, I find that those BBCs with Mandarin parents (mainland and usually from Shang Hai or Beijing) seem to fall into mostly the last two (in fact all the ones I know are in medical school or doing PhDs!!). Also get the feeling most of them have parents of an academic background whilst a lot of cantonese BBC's have parents in catering (takewaways!!) What both groups have in common is they play the piano and can't have a proper meal without rice.
I don't mean to cause offence to anyone reading this and if I do I apologise. Just thought it would be fun to open up discussion about BBCs and their views on well.....us...
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Name: Maryam Shakiba
Uni: University of Warwick
Course: Economics
What you think of chinese people: the coolest people like ever.
by the way i am obviously not a BBC
but all my chinese friends tell me i may as well be lol. i seem to have an affinity for BBC's; i turn around and all my closest friends are oriental lol.
Call me wat u like. cream egg usually pops up. lol.
again dont mean to cause offence if i have unwittingly done so!
Uni: University of Warwick
Course: Economics
What you think of chinese people: the coolest people like ever.
by the way i am obviously not a BBC
but all my chinese friends tell me i may as well be lol. i seem to have an affinity for BBC's; i turn around and all my closest friends are oriental lol. Call me wat u like. cream egg usually pops up. lol.
again dont mean to cause offence if i have unwittingly done so!
Name: annabelle (surprisingly enough)
Uni: LSE (grades permitting!!!)
Course: Accounting and Finance
What you think of chinese people: Apotheke...what you say is sooo true...i don't really have that many chinese friends...but my cantonese friends' parents are all in the restaurant industry and my mandarin friend is a geeeek (i love her though)!!! Just out of interest...out of your categories that you mentioned...which group would you put yourself in? where are you from?
Uni: LSE (grades permitting!!!)
Course: Accounting and Finance
What you think of chinese people: Apotheke...what you say is sooo true...i don't really have that many chinese friends...but my cantonese friends' parents are all in the restaurant industry and my mandarin friend is a geeeek (i love her though)!!! Just out of interest...out of your categories that you mentioned...which group would you put yourself in? where are you from?
Firstly, hope you get into LSE. It's like the Oxbridge of business schools.
Next, I would put myself into none of the above. I would like to think of myself as a bit of a black sheep in the BBC community. I do play the piano and get irritated when I don't have rice with a meal. If I had to put myself into a category, I'd say.....the last one
And I'm from Edinburgh. My mother is a cantonese speaker (also speaks mandarin and English quite well) from Guang Dong and my father is a mandarin speaker from Chong Qing (Szechaun). I only speak a bit of cantonese (no mandarin). Told you I was a bit different.
Now let me bring up another topic close to my heart. How much do you hate TVB???
For those of you who don't knowwhat I'm talking about, TVB is a Hong Kong satelite channel that lots of cantonese speaking chinese watch.
TVB has got to be one of the worst things ever. In fact, Chinese and Hong Kong tv AND cinema is sh*te but TVB will be in more british households.
Ok first of all, the way the next generation of HK young 'uns on music chart shows try to be cool or as they say 'ho koooo ah!' when they're a watered down version of something the Japanese invented. They have no style, charisma or individuality. it's just awash with crapness
Secondly, the ways some HK females are, what's the word.....'deh' (cantonese word). They act childishly, thinking it's cute when it's actually more retarded, and just a bit paedophilic. TO do it sometimes to be affectionate...might be acceptable. To do it all the live long day on every single programme on chinese tv is NOT!!!
And HK pop on TVB....ARGHHHH!!!! How many mediocre love songs by mediocre artists will it take for HK (and China!)to realise how repetitive it is.
I seriously hope the chinese learn to understand English programmes or some BBC/ABC takes over TVB. THey don't have anything like Horizon, or Panorama, or anything even mildy intellectually stimulating. And in all seriosuness, how can this not be damaging to the emotional intelligence of the viewers? They communicate their idiocy through these really crap programmes with nothing stimulating or cutting edge like e.g channel four.
I would also like to see what you think of the social grouping of BBCs I mentioned earlier.
Next, I would put myself into none of the above. I would like to think of myself as a bit of a black sheep in the BBC community. I do play the piano and get irritated when I don't have rice with a meal. If I had to put myself into a category, I'd say.....the last one
And I'm from Edinburgh. My mother is a cantonese speaker (also speaks mandarin and English quite well) from Guang Dong and my father is a mandarin speaker from Chong Qing (Szechaun). I only speak a bit of cantonese (no mandarin). Told you I was a bit different.
Now let me bring up another topic close to my heart. How much do you hate TVB???
For those of you who don't knowwhat I'm talking about, TVB is a Hong Kong satelite channel that lots of cantonese speaking chinese watch.
TVB has got to be one of the worst things ever. In fact, Chinese and Hong Kong tv AND cinema is sh*te but TVB will be in more british households.
Ok first of all, the way the next generation of HK young 'uns on music chart shows try to be cool or as they say 'ho koooo ah!' when they're a watered down version of something the Japanese invented. They have no style, charisma or individuality. it's just awash with crapness
Secondly, the ways some HK females are, what's the word.....'deh' (cantonese word). They act childishly, thinking it's cute when it's actually more retarded, and just a bit paedophilic. TO do it sometimes to be affectionate...might be acceptable. To do it all the live long day on every single programme on chinese tv is NOT!!!
And HK pop on TVB....ARGHHHH!!!! How many mediocre love songs by mediocre artists will it take for HK (and China!)to realise how repetitive it is.
I seriously hope the chinese learn to understand English programmes or some BBC/ABC takes over TVB. THey don't have anything like Horizon, or Panorama, or anything even mildy intellectually stimulating. And in all seriosuness, how can this not be damaging to the emotional intelligence of the viewers? They communicate their idiocy through these really crap programmes with nothing stimulating or cutting edge like e.g channel four.
I would also like to see what you think of the social grouping of BBCs I mentioned earlier.
Whats TVB? I know we have a Chinese channel at home, but its all in Mandarin 
And I can only understand Cantonese, which doesn't help 
And I can only understand Cantonese, which doesn't help 
Well, I'm not actually a BBC cos I was born in China and came over when I was around 2. I've heard people say BBC can also stand for British Bred Chinese, so I could be that, although I went to school in China for a year when I was small.
Name: Lisa Wang. (not Wong!)
Uni: No idea yet... Good one preferably.
Course: Ditto. Not medicine; I'm not a passionate scientist. More artsy and linguistic I like to think.
What you think of Chinese people: I've found in China they're generally really selfish (like they'd push and shove loads in public and are really rude ). But it's the sleazy men that annoy me the most; they're in abundance! Anyway, I know quite a few nice Chinese people, but I can't really generalise too much. It annoys me when loads of Chinese people eye you up in a cross-examining kind of way. Does anyone else get that?
I played the piano, then I quit. I eat rice sometimes, not always. I'm not a geek because I've just been worrying my arse off about my Maths exam today which I think I did badly in, but I do alright in other exams in general without revision. Like GCSEs and my French oral
I have white and indian friends, and don't limit my circle of friends to Cantonese people. Does that make me clever and cultured? But I want to be beautiful...! Just not geeky at the same time.
Name: Lisa Wang. (not Wong!)
Uni: No idea yet... Good one preferably.
Course: Ditto. Not medicine; I'm not a passionate scientist. More artsy and linguistic I like to think.
What you think of Chinese people: I've found in China they're generally really selfish (like they'd push and shove loads in public and are really rude
). But it's the sleazy men that annoy me the most; they're in abundance! Anyway, I know quite a few nice Chinese people, but I can't really generalise too much. It annoys me when loads of Chinese people eye you up in a cross-examining kind of way. Does anyone else get that?I played the piano, then I quit. I eat rice sometimes, not always. I'm not a geek because I've just been worrying my arse off about my Maths exam today which I think I did badly in, but I do alright in other exams in general without revision. Like GCSEs and my French oral
I have white and indian friends, and don't limit my circle of friends to Cantonese people. Does that make me clever and cultured? But I want to be beautiful...! Just not geeky at the same time.Well I suppose I'm a kinda "black sheep" too. For one, I gave up playing the piano and I don't speak chinese at all. My parents are actually malaysian born chinese and so don't speak the language, so to speak. They speak a more obscure dialect called hokkein. Also, never watched TVB in my life...but I have heard of it. I pretty much get the same kind of response when I ask about it though...pile of sh*te. Surely the chinese have other more intellectually stimulating channels? As for your social groupings...I think it's hard to generalise. Like myself...I could'nt put myself in any of your categories. I know people who you are trying to describe, like the "trendy cantonese". They're trendy, but they don't restrict themselves to only other canton trendies.
sheerframboise
Oh I know what you mean...about the sleaziness...it makes me want to be sick...and the constant cross-examination...t's like they've never seen another chinese person in the UK before! I guess they think they have a kind of connection simply because you're also chinese.
Did you have P3 today? Urgh, wasn't it a complete bitch!!!
Don't know about sleazy chinese guys but I've noticed that whenever you pass someone from mainland china (late 20s to 30s) they ALWAYS stare at you if you're chinese. I hate it when they do that.
And the reason I generalise is that especially here in Manchester, those distinctg groups present themselves to you everywhere! Not to say it's necessarily a bad thing. Thought it was an interesting point to bring up. Anyone else agree?
And good on you Sheerframbroise! I love it when chinese people do arty things. My brother is the only chinese person I know doing arty subjects at uni (japanese and french!). Breaks the mould of medicine/accountancy/science. I also think that it's a shame that so few ABCs or BBCs have made it on TV/film. I don't know about you but when HK spits out sh*tty Kung Fu movies, I just find it really embarassing. Ground breaking chinese cinema and good BBC/ABC actors are probably just on the horizon (only ones I can think of now are Ming Na from ER and Lucy Liu)
And the reason I generalise is that especially here in Manchester, those distinctg groups present themselves to you everywhere! Not to say it's necessarily a bad thing. Thought it was an interesting point to bring up. Anyone else agree?
And good on you Sheerframbroise! I love it when chinese people do arty things. My brother is the only chinese person I know doing arty subjects at uni (japanese and french!). Breaks the mould of medicine/accountancy/science. I also think that it's a shame that so few ABCs or BBCs have made it on TV/film. I don't know about you but when HK spits out sh*tty Kung Fu movies, I just find it really embarassing. Ground breaking chinese cinema and good BBC/ABC actors are probably just on the horizon (only ones I can think of now are Ming Na from ER and Lucy Liu)
hmm, I don't see that many chinese people in my area. Two of my best friends are Chinese, both born in mainland China, and there's a few Chinese in the lower years, but I never talk to them.
My sister's doing Web Design at uni, thats arty right? And my lil sis wants to pursue something in Drama and Theatre. Me and my other sister, and my dad are typical Chinese scientists though We all love Maths
My sister's doing Web Design at uni, thats arty right? And my lil sis wants to pursue something in Drama and Theatre. Me and my other sister, and my dad are typical Chinese scientists though
We all love MathsI wish I was good at maths. I'm actually really proud of how most chinese kids get into uni and are all fairly intelligent. I love the chinese work ethic. Thought I don't like it when parents make you study something you don't want to even when you're old enough to decided for yourself
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