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Being Chinese in Australia –Why Don’t my Parents Kiss me Goodbye?
I think being Chinese and living in a predominantly White-Anglo society like Australia has many dilemmas. In the decades that I have lived in Australia, I realise that a number of us Chinese Australians have either retreated to “ghettos” or somehow learn to live with our cross cultural issues; or worst, unconsciously try to pass […]
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Why It Takes Longer to Fatten Up If You Are Chinese: The Secret of the Tao of Eating
As we, in the Southern hemisphere, move into Autumn and Winter, I tend to think of what I eat. When I was younger, my Aussie friends used to say that Chinese eat a lot and don’t put on weight. Of course, like most sayings, this one also has some truth but it is not always […]
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To Have or Not to Have: The Chinese Way of Children
This editorial is inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s poem On Children. For me, Christmas is really about children. Without them around my Christmas tree and all the goodies piled under, the Christmas feeling is just not there. Yet even as I think of a great family Christmas this year, I am also reminded of the thousands […]