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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I'm fortunate in that my wife's family are really great people and not really like that, but I often think that no matter how long I live in this country and no matter how fluent my Chinese and understanding of the culture I will always be a foreigner, whereas as soon as my wife puts her foot down in Canada everyone will just assume she's Canadian until they hear her speak, and even then may still assume she's a Canadian immigrant. It's a great thing about a diverse country like Canada and I think people should stand up against racism whenever they see it in public. Racism is an absolutely horrible thing.
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That's exactly why I moved from Beijing back to Canada about ten years ago.
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