Do you speak Cantonese?
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elusivekI just find out now that I can't do a Facebook video embed here. Pity. And I wanted to embed a video. I guess I can only share a link to the video.
I wanted to mention about Gregory Rivers 河國榮
As far as I know, he is Australian born and went to Hong Kong and then got into the Hong Kong media business. As a Cantonese Chinese speaking foreigner (accented though), he always played the "Caucasian boss/superior/bigshot businessman" in the 80s-90s Hong Kong soap operas or tele-novellas. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Brown would be common names used for him, as I recall, LOL.
What am I doing trying to think about his past? There's a Wiki Page on him! I don't need to do the thinking!
Anyway, he has since quit from TVB (a Hong Kong TV channel) and now does... I don't know what (LOL sorry). Independent artist? Or whatever. I think he was recently in a western movie though (something about a war, he was a soldier, I have a faint impression of that), but I couldn't find any trace of it. Huh.
Apparently he's now doing a Hong Kong-based dog show thing, and this is the clip I wanted to share.
Facebook Video here
I may be a Caucasian-looking person who speaks fluent Cantonese, but I guess I'm somewhat an ingrained Chinese as well, and seeing a Caucasian-looking person speaking fluent Cantonese stumps me as well, LOL.
You can argue that in Macau there must be a lot of Caucasian looking people that speak Cantonese, which is true. But these Portuguese/Macanese mix people will always have that accent and word use that when I hear them speak I can already tell that they are not "Chinese-Chinese" and that they are "Portuguese-Chinese" or "Foreigner-Chinese". Heck, there are people who, being ethnically Chinese but having received their education at the Portuguese school, also have that slight accent that I can tell 95% of the time. It's the soft G or the hard J... I don't know how to elaborate. Just that I can tell!
For the record, I'm told that, if I'm spoken to on the phone, no one would guess that I am non-Chinese. Heck. There was once a guy from our HR thinking that my Boss has 2 assistants, both sharing the same name Kat. One was the Chinese Kat he spoke on the phone with, and the other was the Caucasian Kat that accompanied the Boss to the meeting location but he didn't talk to, WTF. Imagine the odds of that.
I guess I just suddenly wanted to talk about Cantonese because of the news today of a 70-year old Chinese lady being attacked in, was that San Francisco? And then she retaliated? I saw the news clip and the poor woman was ranting in Cantonese.
I wanted to mention about Gregory Rivers 河國榮
As far as I know, he is Australian born and went to Hong Kong and then got into the Hong Kong media business. As a Cantonese Chinese speaking foreigner (accented though), he always played the "Caucasian boss/superior/bigshot businessman" in the 80s-90s Hong Kong soap operas or tele-novellas. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Brown would be common names used for him, as I recall, LOL.
What am I doing trying to think about his past? There's a Wiki Page on him! I don't need to do the thinking!
Anyway, he has since quit from TVB (a Hong Kong TV channel) and now does... I don't know what (LOL sorry). Independent artist? Or whatever. I think he was recently in a western movie though (something about a war, he was a soldier, I have a faint impression of that), but I couldn't find any trace of it. Huh.
Apparently he's now doing a Hong Kong-based dog show thing, and this is the clip I wanted to share.
Facebook Video here
I may be a Caucasian-looking person who speaks fluent Cantonese, but I guess I'm somewhat an ingrained Chinese as well, and seeing a Caucasian-looking person speaking fluent Cantonese stumps me as well, LOL.
You can argue that in Macau there must be a lot of Caucasian looking people that speak Cantonese, which is true. But these Portuguese/Macanese mix people will always have that accent and word use that when I hear them speak I can already tell that they are not "Chinese-Chinese" and that they are "Portuguese-Chinese" or "Foreigner-Chinese". Heck, there are people who, being ethnically Chinese but having received their education at the Portuguese school, also have that slight accent that I can tell 95% of the time. It's the soft G or the hard J... I don't know how to elaborate. Just that I can tell!
For the record, I'm told that, if I'm spoken to on the phone, no one would guess that I am non-Chinese. Heck. There was once a guy from our HR thinking that my Boss has 2 assistants, both sharing the same name Kat. One was the Chinese Kat he spoke on the phone with, and the other was the Caucasian Kat that accompanied the Boss to the meeting location but he didn't talk to, WTF. Imagine the odds of that.
I guess I just suddenly wanted to talk about Cantonese because of the news today of a 70-year old Chinese lady being attacked in, was that San Francisco? And then she retaliated? I saw the news clip and the poor woman was ranting in Cantonese.
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