Growing Up Chinese Canadian: A Century of Stories
Christopher Cheung, TheTyee.ca, Jul. 3, 2017
“You’re so Asian!” “You’re so white-washed!” Natalie Poon remembers hearing this a lot in her Chinese Canadian peer group when she started high school a decade ago in Richmond, a city bordering Vancouver. Whether you find this language funny or offensive, Poon and her peers consider it an easy way to talk about cultural differences. “That’s just how we talked,” she said. “It’s not meant to be discriminatory.” Read more…
Natalie Poon, age 4, practising her alphabet on one of many plane rides she took during her childhood between Richmond and Hong Kong.
Photo by Christopher Cheung.
