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["Chang Man" <chang_man@hotmail.com>]

It's a bit late getting in on this but I haven't had time to read my mail 
for a long while. so I have been downloading it only. What town are u in, 
there are a few Chinese schools in the UK. London has a few, Birmingham, 
Manchester too. You need to check with your town's Chinese community to find 
out about whether your town has one.  If nothing else, they may help your 
daughter realise and understand her Chinese heritage a bit more and provide 
her with Chinese friends her own age.

FYI, I was born and raised in an English town and came to Hong Kong when I 
was 23. I have met many "BBC's" over here, and a few have been sheltered and 
  isolated away from Chinese culture in the UK and are less inclined to want 
to associate with "BBC's" let alone locals. Many of us learned a little 
about chinese culture and made alot of friends in Chinese school - we didn't 
particularly enjoy class but it has probably helped us with our identity and 
friendships. In Hong Kong BBC's who meet in HK can joke about it, and often 
we know someone related or a friend of someone we went Chinese school with.


-----Original Message-----
From:	S. L.  Lee [SMTP:sllee@asiawind.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, March 02, 1999 11:00 PM
To:	Steve (Lap Ming) Chan
Cc:	hakka@mini.brooklaw.edu; fhakka@asiawind.com
Subject:	hakka: Re: Contacts in Britian...

Steve,

You can click on the highlighted "Asiawind" word and follow the leads to go
to the Hakka homepage I have. It is mostly in English. It has some resources
on tapes and videos to learn Hakka. The same bookstores might also have
Cantonese too. I think the Chinatown in London might have some also. It is
not easy to keep the language alive in a foreign country. We are all trying
very hard. But at least keep the culture and tradition. I am also including
the maillist and forum address in the Cc so you can join us in the
discussion. Hopefully other Hakka in UK can help you too.

SL Lee


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve (Lap Ming) Chan <stevechan@lucent.com>
To: sllee@asiawind.com <sllee@asiawind.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 9:44 AM
Subject: Contacts in Britian...


>Hello there,
>
>I stumbled to your Hakka Forum by accident when looking for
>Chinese contacts in Britian. Both my parents are Hakka, and
>although I don't speak the dialect I  understand it very well
>as my parents speaks mostly in Hakka when I was a child.
>
>I digress. Let my explain my predicament if I may. I arrived in
>Britian with my brother & mother to join my father in 1975 from
>Hong Kong (or more precisely from a village in the New Territories
>called Sheung Shui).
>
>Being a child of 10 I soon made English friends and through
>the years I've found that my Cantonese had become only "reasonable"
>and I have lost all my reading skills. That's not the problem.
>My real concern is for my two and a half year old daughter and my
>second child (due March 8).
>
>Because my wife is English and we live in a small, predominately white
>town, there really isn't much I can do to educate my daughter other than
>carrying doing what I'm doing now (by talking to her only in Cantonese).
>
>However, I feel that I'm fighting a loosing battle as she is continuelly
>bombarded with the English culture via the Television. It was then
>that I realized that I've got to do the same thing and get hold of as
>much televison material, particularly children's programs, as possible.
>This way she has at least, an idea of her roots and origin when she is
older.
>
>Therefore, I was wondering if you know of any points of contacts to start
>from. Surfing on the WEB is difficult as I cannot get a Chinese reader for
>my SunStation and even if I could get one I can't read the page anyway!
>
>I do hope you can help.
>
>Kindest regards,
>
>Steve Lap Ming Chan



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