Comments on: Scar Tissue http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/ Snowed under since 2004! Thu, 24 May 2012 04:39:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Citizen Of The World award | Correr Es Mi Destino http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-6/#comment-2687 The Citizen Of The World award | Correr Es Mi Destino Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:39:49 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-2687 [...] Thursday’s post, Scar Tissue, I realized through your comments that many of you were also lost between two countries, two [...] […] Thursday’s post, Scar Tissue, I realized through your comments that many of you were also lost between two countries, two […]

]]> By: Zhu http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-6/#comment-1750 Zhu Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:53:37 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1750 <strong>Ted</strong>: thank you for visiting! I guess you're right, it's not even a matter of country or culture - we're all somewhat uprooted... Nicely put. Thanks for your comment! <strong>Diesel</strong>: that's it, I'm not speaking to you anymore :lol: <strong>Kyh</strong>: wow, thanks a lot for the explanation - I'm really learning something new every time I speak with you! So you're a true international/ cross culture person too! <strong>Graham</strong>: thanks my dear Englisman! I love writing, and I see a bit clearer after each post... <strong>Shantanu</strong>: I guess so, India is so big! I don't mind, but sometimes you miss what you don't have... no matter how much greener the grass is on the other side ;-) <strong>Theresa</strong>: so the real "citizens of the world" family ;-) Ted: thank you for visiting! I guess you’re right, it’s not even a matter of country or culture — we’re all somewhat uprooted… Nicely put. Thanks for your comment!

Diesel: that’s it, I’m not speaking to you anymore :lol:

Kyh: wow, thanks a lot for the explanation — I’m really learning something new every time I speak with you! So you’re a true international/ cross culture person too!

Graham: thanks my dear Englisman! I love writing, and I see a bit clearer after each post…

Shantanu: I guess so, India is so big! I don’t mind, but sometimes you miss what you don’t have… no matter how much greener the grass is on the other side ;-)

Theresa: so the real “citizens of the world” family ;-)

]]> By: Theresa http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-5/#comment-1745 Theresa Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:55:37 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1745 My kids are pretty much Spanish, but they do speak English and they love learning about other cultures. <em>Theresa's last blog post..</em><a href='http://rainypamplona.blogspot.com/2007/12/please-dont-pinch-plumber.html' rel="nofollow">Please Don't Pinch the Plumber</a> My kids are pretty much Spanish, but they do speak English and they love learning about other cultures.

Theresa’s last blog post..Please Don’t Pinch the Plumber

]]> By: Shantanu http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-5/#comment-1737 Shantanu Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:00:02 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1737 Well, in India you really can have the same experience by just moving from North India to the South or from East to the West. While we are one country now, there is so much difference in language, culture, etc. And it's not a bad thing, having a little bit of your heart in different places. :-) Didn't you point out somewhere that as a French you are expected to know how to handle multiple lovers? Sort of similar, isn't it? ;-) Well, in India you really can have the same experience by just moving from North India to the South or from East to the West. While we are one country now, there is so much difference in language, culture, etc.

And it’s not a bad thing, having a little bit of your heart in different places. :-) Didn’t you point out somewhere that as a French you are expected to know how to handle multiple lovers? Sort of similar, isn’t it? ;-)

]]> By: Graham http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-5/#comment-1730 Graham Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:22:29 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1730 What a beautiful post... so full of feeling. You write with such wonderful emotion. Zhu, one thing that you should always remember is that "You are you". You may have many layers, but each and every one of them have your name written throughout and for that you should be truly proud. We all carry scars and it is these scars that shape us into the people we are and make us all individuals. Kindest regards ~ Graham :) <em>Graham's last blog post..</em><a href='http://grahamettridge.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-time-mistletoe-wine.html' rel="nofollow">"Christmas Time, Mistletoe & Wine..."</a> What a beautiful post… so full of feeling. You write with such wonderful emotion. Zhu, one thing that you should always remember is that “You are you”. You may have many layers, but each and every one of them have your name written throughout and for that you should be truly proud. We all carry scars and it is these scars that shape us into the people we are and make us all individuals.

Kindest regards ~ Graham :)

Graham’s last blog post..“Christmas Time, Mistletoe & Wine…”

]]> By: kyh http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-5/#comment-1729 kyh Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:32:37 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1729 Well, my paternal side is Teochew, while my maternal side is Hakka. I speak neither (a lil bit of Teochew ~ I can understand more than I can speak; as for Hakka, I only know how to count from 1-10 and some very simple terms :mrgreen: ). Due to the prevalence of Hokkien (Minnan/Fujian) dialect in Northern Malaysia where I live in, I can converse in that dialect more than my ancestral ones. In case you're curious, the vast region around our national capital, Kuala Lumpur tend to be Cantonese-speaking. While I might not be able to speak Cantonese fluently, a lot of Malaysian Chinese can understand it due to the popularity of Hong Kong serial dramas among the Malaysian Chinese community. This make us Malaysian Chinese unique from those Mainlanders because we are known to be multi-lingual due to this unique cultural blends and interaction. In addition, those who've received standard education will be able to converse in the national language (Malay) and English in varying degrees. :) For most of the time, I speak Mandarin (华语/普通话) with my family and my Chinese friends. Malaysia is different from other Southeast Asian countries where Chinese form a significant minority in that we have primary schools that use Chinese language as its medium of instruction (our so-called vernacular schools). Chinese who study in national schools/missionary schools tend to be English speaking and have no or little knowledge in the Chinese language. Besides English and Malay, they tend to be dialect-speaking instead of standard Mandarin. These Chinese are known as 'bananas' due to the fact that they are yellow/Oriental outside as in the banana's skin, and white/Western inside as in the banana flesh. In the Americas and Australia, these non-Chinese speaking Chinese are known as ABCs ~ American/Australian Born Chinese, and are predominantly English-speaking. <em>kyh's last blog post..</em><a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kyh87/~3/196123398/infinite-eights.html' rel="nofollow">Infinite eights</a> Well, my paternal side is Teochew, while my maternal side is Hakka. I speak neither (a lil bit of Teochew ~ I can understand more than I can speak; as for Hakka, I only know how to count from 1–10 and some very simple terms :mrgreen: ). Due to the prevalence of Hokkien (Minnan/Fujian) dialect in Northern Malaysia where I live in, I can converse in that dialect more than my ancestral ones. In case you’re curious, the vast region around our national capital, Kuala Lumpur tend to be Cantonese-speaking. While I might not be able to speak Cantonese fluently, a lot of Malaysian Chinese can understand it due to the popularity of Hong Kong serial dramas among the Malaysian Chinese community. This make us Malaysian Chinese unique from those Mainlanders because we are known to be multi-lingual due to this unique cultural blends and interaction. In addition, those who’ve received standard education will be able to converse in the national language (Malay) and English in varying degrees. :) For most of the time, I speak Mandarin (华语/普通话) with my family and my Chinese friends.

Malaysia is different from other Southeast Asian countries where Chinese form a significant minority in that we have primary schools that use Chinese language as its medium of instruction (our so-called vernacular schools). Chinese who study in national schools/missionary schools tend to be English speaking and have no or little knowledge in the Chinese language. Besides English and Malay, they tend to be dialect-speaking instead of standard Mandarin. These Chinese are known as ‘bananas’ due to the fact that they are yellow/Oriental outside as in the banana’s skin, and white/Western inside as in the banana flesh. In the Americas and Australia, these non-Chinese speaking Chinese are known as ABCs ~ American/Australian Born Chinese, and are predominantly English-speaking.

kyh’s last blog post..Infinite eights

]]> By: Diesel http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-5/#comment-1728 Diesel Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:21:17 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1728 "Even worse, I’m starting to believe in negotiations rather than in revolutions" Another 20 years and you'll be a conservative. Mwuhahahahahaha!!! “Even worse, I’m starting to believe in negotiations rather than in revolutions”

Another 20 years and you’ll be a conservative. Mwuhahahahahaha!!!

]]> By: Ted http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-4/#comment-1727 Ted Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:53:16 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1727 I think you don't have to go a country away to feel that alienation. I live 2 hours by car from NYC where I grew up, but have that same incompleteness in either place. My friend who grew up in Manhattan but now lives in Brooklyn feels the same. Perhaps any place much beyond the street you first sank roots is... well... uprooted. Perhaps home is a foreign place right after the first dog dies. Beautifully written and thoughtful. <em>Ted's last blog post..</em><a href='http://rothphotos.blogspot.com/2007/12/barn-through-fog.html' rel="nofollow">Through the Fog, a Barn</a> I think you don’t have to go a country away to feel that alienation. I live 2 hours by car from NYC where I grew up, but have that same incompleteness in either place. My friend who grew up in Manhattan but now lives in Brooklyn feels the same. Perhaps any place much beyond the street you first sank roots is… well… uprooted. Perhaps home is a foreign place right after the first dog dies.

Beautifully written and thoughtful.

Ted’s last blog post..Through the Fog, a Barn

]]> By: Zhu http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-4/#comment-1726 Zhu Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:04:46 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1726 <strong>JoAnn</strong>: I'll stay a bit French, I'll promise. Don't think I can erase it anyway! :lol: 14C? That's like summer!! :lol: <strong>MogLI</strong>: great quote! And so true... Einstein was a really smart guy ;-) <strong>Ghosty</strong>: no need to be embarrassed! Remember, I'm French, lovers, ménage à trois etc. are soo commonplace! Just kidding :lol: Japan must be hard to live in for a foreigner... cause it's like China, no matter how hard you try and how welcoming people can be, you'll always be the white guy, the outsider. <strong>Kyh</strong>: right! Most of Chinese people in France are from Wenzhou or surrounding and speak 温州话 or Teochew. 我的爱人是在沈阳出生的，他十一岁就跟他的父母一起移民了加拿大。他虽然会说普通话但是不会写字。他什么都忘了。。。他说英语的时候没有口音。 Westerners have always been scared of China... even before the economical "threat". China has always been seen as a mysterious country, strong enough culturally and demographically, but yet "weird". There's this stereotyp of "beware of China", even though Chinese people are really curious about the West and even historically speaking, most emperor didn't really mind it! I guess Westerners were frustrated because they couldn't invade China or influence it too much, yet the country was doing fine without them :lol: <strong>Wapentake</strong>: oh, onion soup... now you got me dreaming! JoAnn: I’ll stay a bit French, I’ll promise. Don’t think I can erase it anyway! :lol:

14C? That’s like summer!! :lol:

MogLI: great quote! And so true… Einstein was a really smart guy ;-)

Ghosty: no need to be embarrassed! Remember, I’m French, lovers, ménage à trois etc. are soo commonplace! Just kidding :lol:

Japan must be hard to live in for a foreigner… cause it’s like China, no matter how hard you try and how welcoming people can be, you’ll always be the white guy, the outsider.

Kyh: right! Most of Chinese people in France are from Wenzhou or surrounding and speak 温州话 or Teochew.

我的爱人是在沈阳出生的，他十一岁就跟他的父母一起移民了加拿大。他虽然会说普通话但是不会写字。他什么都忘了。。。他说英语的时候没有口音。

Westerners have always been scared of China… even before the economical “threat”. China has always been seen as a mysterious country, strong enough culturally and demographically, but yet “weird”. There’s this stereotyp of “beware of China”, even though Chinese people are really curious about the West and even historically speaking, most emperor didn’t really mind it!

I guess Westerners were frustrated because they couldn’t invade China or influence it too much, yet the country was doing fine without them :lol:

Wapentake: oh, onion soup… now you got me dreaming!

]]> By: wapentake http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/comment-page-4/#comment-1725 wapentake Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:54:35 +0000 http://correresmidestino.com/scar-tissue/#comment-1725 Great post, Zhu. For vegetable heritage, it helps that a large part of you is a French onion. Just make sure you don't fall in the soup. :) <em>wapentake's last blog post..</em><a href='http://wapentake.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/sit-and-rant-anag/' rel="nofollow">Sit and rant (anag.)</a> Great post, Zhu.

For vegetable heritage, it helps that a large part of you is a French onion. Just make sure you don’t fall in the soup. :)

wapentake’s last blog post..Sit and rant (anag.)

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