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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stephen O who wrote (10367)	9/1/2006 10:45:14 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37143

Printing those forms in Chinese as a one-time thing should be no big deal! The government could do it as a show of appreciation for what those early Chinese labourers contributed towards Canada. Your apparent nit-picking about learning English and your objection to printing forms in Chinese suggest to me you look upon those Chinese with disdain. Not surprising, as I said in my last post, discrimination is alive and well in BC. May I add bigotry, too? Yes, indeed, learn the language of your country. But, to be sure, you have ignored the extenuating circumstances for those old Chinese labourers!!! Maybe they were stymied by the legal language in those forms and therefore they requested forms printed in Chinese in the hope they could comprehend them. Do you expect uneducated folks to understand "legalese" overnight? By the way, don't forget their kith and kin are now making contributions to Canadian society. If you would care to check the records on people benefiting from unemployment insurance and other social benefits, you will find very few to no Chinese names among the beneficiaries! If I am not mistaken, your reference to your paying taxes seems to be a snide attempt at denigrating certain segments of the Chinese population in Canada. By contrast, I know of very many so-called "white" Canadians and Indo-Canadians (in BC and in Ontario) who cheat UIC and other social services, big-time, and boast about it! You may not know about it, but there are not a few Chinese who pay far more taxes than you could ever imagine! So that you know about it, I pay my taxes too and on time every year! Nor have I never resorted to benefiting from UIC or social welfare ever since I arrived 40 years ago! (For your info, OAS is a joke: the government takes OAS from your pension; that is, your pension gets reduced by the amount called OAS.) To return to our discussion, what is the big deal about printing forms in Chinese as a one-time special occasion, if not just to honour those Chinese? How does that hurt other Canadians? Why project about something that is unlikely to happen? By the way, China is on the rise. In Napoleon's words, "When the Chinese dragon awakes, look out!" Well, the world is now sitting up and taking notice of China! In another 35 to 50 years the Chinese economy will outstrip that of the US and, with ascendancy in economic power other forms of power will accrue to China. And, so whether you like it or not, you and your descendants will do well to learn Chinese to be at least one step ahead of those who stubbornly refuse to to do so. It was nice of you to have studied some Portuguese before you went to Brazil. But that kind of Portuguese that you learnt was very basic and elementary and soon forgotten after you came back to Canada? I believe those old "Chinamen" as some self-styled "superior" folks would be wont to call them found the legalese in the forms difficult to comprehend and so asked for the forms to be printed in Chinese!!! .