Re: Hakka in Mauritius

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>From cs942222@red.ariel.cs.yorku.ca Mon Dec 16 14:01:09 1996
From: KUO Y LIAO <cs942222@red.ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: Hakka in Mauritius 

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> >From edchan@vossnet.co.uk Fri Dec 13 21:14:30 1996
> Subject: Re: Hakka in Mauritius
> From: edchan@vossnet.co.uk (Ted)

> than by their  
> common history.  By this definition, the ethnic Hakka population of the
> country  
> is not Hakka. 
>  
> Ed.

 
For those you are interested in the Hakka in Mauritius, I found the above
mail to be quite accurate on describing the Hakka in Mauritius.
I am from Calcutta India, and now live in Toronto.  The Hakka in Mauritius
are not from Calcutta as another person suggested.  I have many
Mauritian friends which I have meant from here at York University and
pretty much everything is true that Ed mentioned, they do not speak Hakka,
especially the younger generation who speak Creole.   These students
usually study abroad here in Canada (either Toronto or Montreal), England
or Australia.  However, they do not necessarily go 'home' after studies,
but stay in Toronto afterward.  I went to a Mauritian
club Independence Day party here last year and noticed 99 percent
of the club to be Hakka, but no one spoke it, instead there were a couple
of presentations done in Mandarin (which most of them didn't understand 
either).  Even today, these Mauritians families who live in Canada teach
their children Creole/French at home. 

Kuo