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29-06-2025, 12:10 PM

How language barrier destroy a Chinese-Canadian mother-daughter relation for years...

My mom came to Canada in 1986 because she wanted out of China. Always the leader in school, she delighted in compliments she received for her looks and her capacity to follow the rules. Those interactions sparked her desire for a life outside her sunny fishing village. After teachers’ college, she seized the first opportunity for escape: an arranged marriage to my dad, a Canadian citizen....I’d spent a good part of my life pushing away from her, but I was really pushing away from my own guilt and frustration. My broken Chinese is the only key I have to a huge part of my identity — and to my mom. It was time to make peace with our imperfect relationship.

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am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 10-08-2022, 11:26 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Tangsen - 10-08-2022, 11:36 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 13-08-2022, 05:53 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Tangsen - 13-08-2022, 06:58 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 14-08-2022, 03:27 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Tangsen - 14-08-2022, 10:10 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 04-09-2022, 11:57 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by webinarian - 11-09-2022, 09:51 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 11-09-2022, 10:43 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by kokee - 13-08-2022, 06:02 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Omnipresent88 - 13-08-2022, 06:05 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by cityhantam - 13-08-2022, 09:34 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by cityhantam - 29-06-2025, 12:17 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by grotesqueness - 05-09-2022, 03:01 AM

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RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 05-09-2022, 02:16 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Ahnya - 05-09-2022, 09:27 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 05-09-2022, 09:38 PM

RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by p1acebo - 05-09-2022, 09:48 PM

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RE: am so Westernised...And yet, I self-identify as a Chinese - by Manthink - 06-09-2022, 12:09 AM

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