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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
But what shocked me more than anything else was when I had a bite at a Cantonese diner, the young ladies I was eating with, told me that their parents told them that they could NEVER speak in their native tongue to ANYONE in public--especially, like at a wedding!!!  They said that they would offend the elders by being too American(ized)...
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Are you saying that they can't speak English or can't speak Chinese (or other Asian language)?
I don't really know if it's really POSSIBLE to have a united Asian force because socio-economic levels vary so greatly. In Toronto, you have HK Chinese who are essentially upper middle class with a proper Catholic school education in Hong Kong and Canadian born/raised children who are top students in prep schools or highly academic public high schools. On the other hand you have newly arrived immigrants from mainland China or Vietnam who are trying very hard to make ends meet. You also have everything in between. I don't really see what these people have in common at all!