subsequently, of course, i turned back to the conversation window and she asked me: "You do know how to read mandarin right???" and i replied: "NO!" then she starts chastising me about me not being proud to be a chinese la, and that i was "those" type of people.. the people who are ashamed of having this nicely coloured skin tone, and having a language that is SO SO difficult to me to read.
then i got a little ermmm.. dissatisfied on that comment. :P
so then, is it true? being a chinese makes it compulsory to learn how to read and write chinese characters and speak chinese dialects? i don't really think so.. i mean, if you can learn them, of course, there wouldn't be any harm. but if you're like me (lazy, lazy, bored at boring stuff, and lazier), you'll find it EXTREMELY difficult to learn it! i mean, IF i was given the exposure when i was young, let's say the age of 3 or 4.. i think i wouldn't even be writing this post..
many scientists believe that by the age of 10, the linguistic section of our brain slows down, making it difficult to accept more languages. and the younger you are, the easier you can down a whole host of characters of a new language. take my cousin for example. since he was 2 and a hlf years old, his mum has been sending him for classes and stuff. now at the age of 4, he can speak mandarin fluently (albeit the hard words you don't learn in kindergarten la) and he can like read the chinese newspaper. I MEAN, HOW MANY OF US COULD DO THAT WHEN WE WERE 4??? (at one time, he even took japanese.. and got till the stage of counting the numbers.. then he quit.) he's now taking bahasa malaysia. :P btw, he really is only 4 and he REALLY is going to kindergarten already. since he was 3 i think. amazing right?
so not speaking chinese could not possibly mean i'm not proud of being a chinese. from my point of view, being in malaysia, there's like only 4 groups that you'll be born into. the malays, the indians, the chinese and the 'others'.
[what i'm saying in the following paragraph does not in anyway represent racial discrimination or acts of hate towards the other races we share this precious motherland with.]
so like the malays are like.. ermm... i think it would be safe to say that 70% of them are kuraps by nature la. everywhere you go, you see them doing something that is like very dumb and stupid. i mean, how many times have you taken the train, hot and exhausted, wanting a place to sit only to find like 275197 malay kids playing on them. with their 1 mother sitting next to them, totally oblivious to the fact that her children are a public nuisance? KURAP LIKE FUCK IN MY BOOKS! i haven't even started on the rempits.. fuckheads. hope they die doing their stupid superman trick on their ermm.. machine of noise.
on the indians. i REALLY REALLY don't mean to be rude.. but it's like ermm.. the impression they have left on the public is that they are a little on the dirty side... not the ideal family i would have liked to be born into..
the 'others'? well, basically being born in the pedalaman isn't something that i'm very fond of. :P
so the best out of the 4 would have to be chinese lo! i really don't think that i'm disrespectful of my culture because i can't read or write my mother tongue.. after all, i still can speak cantonese, i still can speak a little mandarin, hokkien, hakka.. as well as understand them all. isn't that good enough?
what say you?
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