I listen regularly to World Football Phone In, on BBC 5Live. It’s a great show with lots of people around the world calling in talking about football and tangential issues with a panel of really good football journalists.
Anyway Tim Vickery was talking about families of Brazilian footballers in Europe and how displacement affects their kids. Apparently a lot of the kids grow up in a sort of no man’s land, people who don’t fit in any culture completely. Tim ends that discussion by commenting how those kids who are born or grow up outside the country their parents were from do get an advantage in terms of bilingualism but there is a worry that they are in no man’s land.
I feel like that sometimes. Not truly Aussie and definitely not wholly Chinese.
Yep. I wouldn’t be employed by most companies in Hong Kong coz of my lack of Chinese reading/writing skills, yet I don’t quite fit into the whole Aussie “It’s Friday night, let’s down as much beer as we can afford” thing.
I actually feel more honkie than aussie…and my chinese isn’t too bad…the writing is passable and the reading and mando is probably better than the average honkie…
but with the low pay and stressful hours never really wanted to work back there
So is there a sigh?
You’re neither Honkie or Aussie H.T…you’re just…’different’, lol~