Non-Chinese and citizenship
My daughter was born in Hong Kong in 1999 while I was in the employ of Dragonair.
After her birth I set about getting her papers and travel documents in order. I asked about a Passport or Permanent Identity Card. The person I spoke to laughed at me and said that I must go to my own country.
I told her that she may have misunderstood me. That my Daughter was born in the hospital we were standing in, 3 days previous. To which she replied - "She can not be Chinese, she is white!"
Needless to say I was taken aback and not prepared for this tongue lashing. I suppose that I can be forgiven for expecting another country to extend the same courtesies as my own with regard to citizenship when one is born in the land.
I can just imagine the hue and cry should someone in officialdom say to the Parents of the newly born Chinese in my country - "You can not be Canadian, you are Chinese! You go to your own country"
The Chinese are very "protective" of their background and culture. I am not at all surprised to the extent that someone would want the Chinese language in this forum.
I am however, surprised that one would wish to use this forum, primarliy English, to promulgate one's view's and feeling's ,in the Chinese Language, to primarily English reader's...