The topic linguicism in different
countries all over the world is very thought provoking and reflects the issues
some disadvantageous countries are undertaking.
As a Chinese, I would like to
address my personal experience when I traveled to Hong Kong this summer. Before
I went to Hong Kong, my friend told me that I would speak English rather than
Chinese so that people there would not treat me very differently. And I decided
to do an experiment to see if it is true that Hong Kong people would treat me
differently according to the language I speak. There was nothing happen on the
first day when I arrived my hotel to check in because there were so many
travelers from mainland staying that fancy hotel. But on the next day when I
went to the shopping center, I decided to speak mandarin to see the sales’ reaction.
Unfortunately, they did react very cold and mean when I asked some questions
about their products. They only answered the question and had no intention to
introduce more about the products. Even worse, a mid-age gentlemen sales said
to me that “ on sale items are over there”, pointing with his fingers when I
was browsing in the store. So I tried to speak English the next day to see the
difference when buying a ferry ticket. Staffs in the office stared at me during
my purchase, their sight turned friendly from surprising because I am obviously
Asian, but I speak English fluently so that they could not tell where I am
from. This contributed to their nice and friendly service instead of
impoliteness to people from Mainland China.
The experience related to the
linguicism occurred to me. And I do agree the opinion
from most people from mainland that people from Hong Kong are able to resist or
dislike the Chinese government, but it is injustice for them to deny their
ethnics.
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