• Fishroot [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    L Lmao chowmein is already called nouilles sautées à la cantonaise when i was working at a Chinese Restaurant

    Tbh i don’t know why the manager didn’t hide the ghost menu like every Chinese restaurant do

    This article is kind of dishonest because it hits on a strawman. The reason why is an issue now is because Montreal Chinatown is dying and it’s not because of the language police lmao

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Tbh i don’t know why the manager didn’t hide the ghost menu like every Chinese restaurant do

      It was on the wall in big characters, but after they got in trouble they took the wall sign down and now have a secret menu they only hand out to Chinese customers.

      I think language police shit is fine if you're trying to resist a bigger language coming in and colonizing your culture ie English but enforcing it on a smaller language like the cantonese spoken by an ethnic minority in one part of the city is fash shit. It's basically what started the Ukrainian Civil War in 2014.

      • Fishroot [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        enforcing it on a smaller language like the cantonese (…) is fash shit

        As if Canada didn’t give the Chinese the right to vote till like the 50s

        But hey at least they gave a reparation check of 10k to the suviving family members of chinese people who got headtaxed into staying in Canada.

        Chinese people need to understand that the perceived acceptance of Quebec/canada for them is all conditional

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I've never heard about this and holy shit.

          The tax was abolished by the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which outright prevented all Chinese immigration except for that of business people, clergy, educators, students, and some others.

          :agony-shivering:

          To the disappointment of many in the Chinese Canadian community, it was announced that only original head tax payers, or their surviving spouses, then in their nineties, or a total 785 claimants, would receive CAD$20,000 in individual redress, representing less than a fraction of one-percent of the 81,000 original head tax payers.[38] Only an estimated 20 Chinese Canadians who paid the tax were still alive in 2006.

          :agony-4horsemen: