#cantomando

Cue Chinese Parents Freaking Out. I enjoyed Mike’s code-switching. They’re really Chinese Canadians despite the title (I think from mainland (Hebei), HK and Macau respectively?). My mother is Mother No.3 except for the Cantonese-speaking part.

the cantomando guys sheldon, edward and mike

Almost every Asian kid who’s grown up in a Western country has some semblance of experience with ‘Chinese School’; an unappealing waste of any adolescent child’s weekend that could be better spent anywhere but in a classroom for six hours. In the two or three months I spent at Chinese school, the only word I remember learning was 不倒翁bu dao weng (a roly poly toy), a phrase which until today I have yet to put to good use. Other friends have endured years of Chinese school, coming out the other end to only remember how to say 你好ni hao (Hello). This collective experience, along with many other factors have cumulated in a collective understanding of learning Chinese as 'uncool', sparking a trend of media representations that normalize and render it widely acceptable for Asian diasporic youths to overlook their cultural heritage. Click to read more!