I don't know why but some people think that Cantonese IS Chinese and if you can't speak or understand Cantonese then you are not Chinese! I must admit as a Chinese I don't speak nor write Chinese and certainly don't speak Cantonese either even though Terese is Cantonese but we always converse in English with a few Cantonese words thrown in every now and then.Lemme tell you a true story that happened to me years ago when I went shopping in a Chinese grocery shop. I was looking for a particular product but I didn't know how to say it so I asked the tauke-nio in English. That kurang ajar tauke-nio couldn't speak English but had the audacity to tell her friend "Tong yang m-sih gong tong yua" meaning Chinese can't speak Chinese! Or another time when the tauke said to me; " You not Chinese ah?" That's the kind of mentality some people have, all Chinese are Cantonese and if you're not then you're something else!
This ain't the only time I got treatment lidat, it happens quite often for people like me like today when I went to buy some 'pau' from this food court in Box Hill. The stewpig bugger got annoyed that I wouldn't speak Cantonese to him! I told him to smile coz I'm the blardy customer and he's the one who has to be patient with me and not the other way around. He just kept quiet so I didn't continue further. It's people like these that give the Chinese a bad reputation, no wonder some Mat Sallehs look at us with distrust.
OKlah, finish rant liao, I'm happy now!
























