as a chinese international student, i saw this thread a couple of days ago and decided to remain silent as long as the criticism on internationals was not 'crossing the line'...However not surprisingly ppl started to blame us for everything and even explicitly showed ur hatred and discrimination of international students. Now I would like to make it clear to you, Mr Not-Vietnamese, as well as all other proud locals and Anglo-saxon internationals,
1) we ARE able to speak english.
2) like it or not, we are entitled to speak our own language as long as we are not in class.
3) I agree that it is very inappropriate to talk to ppl in chinese without asking if u speak the language. But maybe they thought u r chinese. Every time i go to Korean stores or Japanese hair salons, ppl talk to me in Korean and Japanese as well, and i've never been pissed off.
First of all.. It's Ms not Mr... I think its pretty clear coz i have Gender: Female under my nick name
Look my grandparents are chinese so I'm *technically* still chinese. Is it still discrimination then if Im bagging people from my own background?
I am not saying that ALL chinese students cant speak english... I just had a LOT of bad experience with them. A friend of mine is chinese and she speak english well. Used to work with this guy and he speak awesome english. Not saying that all chinese students cant speak english. But most seriously need to start work more on their english skills.
2) like it or not, we are entitled to speak our own language as long as we are not in class.
Is it appropriate to speak with your friends in your own language in level 3/4 QUIET reading spaces ?
3) I agree that it is very inappropriate to talk to ppl in chinese without asking if u speak the language. But maybe they thought u r chinese. Every time i go to Korean stores or Japanese hair salons, ppl talk to me in Korean and Japanese as well, and i've never been pissed off
My BF is korean(aussie) and he looks like *obvious* korean and people still talk chinese to him. He just replied with random ching chong lOL maybe i should do that next time. Im never pissed off when they do that, the thing is, after I said I cant speak chinese politely they look down at me like 'WTF you look chinese and you cant speak our language?'
and then that change of attitude.. they sound friendly when they speak in chinese (one guy asked me why I dont go to tute last week. I tell him i dont understand, he translates,had a nice convo, then he go) and guess what when I genuinely try to be friendly to them and u know, make new friends, they IGNORE me as if Im a complete stranger. WTF. So because I cant speak your language I cant be your friend??? =fail!