Chinese is a term affectionately used for people born and bred in China. You don't call someone from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore a Chinese. It might come across as offensive or derogatory.
Anyway, the company in the spotlight is from Hong Kong.
what? i was born in taiwan, making me 100% chinese. don't confuse nationality and race - the only taiwanese that get offended when you call them chinese are the ones who were born overseas
Usually people are "bred" by their parents, but perhaps the communists are doing something different these days in which case "bred" may be derogatory. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the term "born and bred" isn't derogatory and someone is just a little too sensitive.
"Chinese is a term affectionately used for people born and bred in China. You don't call someone from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore a Chinese. It might come across as offensive or derogatory." => I think you mean to say “MAINLAND-Chinese”. The phrase stereotypically refers to the GENERALLY lower educated Chinese in Mainland China. Notoriously known for talking loudly, spit, cheat, steal, mistresses, married to Caucasian husband for citizenship later to cheat away all the money, etc. When mistakenly identified as “Mainland-Chinese”, it is not too hard to understand why some Chinese from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore may find it offensive.
Having said that… Chinese, also know as Han-Chinese, refers to an ethnic group native to China. Therefore Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore are 100% Chinese.
By the way, Caucasians are generally referred to as “Gwai-Low”. “Gwai” because of the blond hair, heavy beard and green eyes. Sounds very much like Rakshasa in Buddhist mythology.
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Chinese is a term affectionately used for people born and bred in China. You don't call someone from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore a Chinese. It might come across as offensive or derogatory.
Anyway, the company in the spotlight is from Hong Kong.
what? i was born in taiwan, making me 100% chinese. don't confuse nationality and race - the only taiwanese that get offended when you call them chinese are the ones who were born overseas
If anyone's going to be offended by anything, it's probably the fact that you're calling these Chinese people "bred".
Way to make them sound like dogs, man.
Usually people are "bred" by their parents, but perhaps the communists are doing something different these days in which case "bred" may be derogatory. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the term "born and bred" isn't derogatory and someone is just a little too sensitive.
@ jaalin
Speak for yourself.
Some of us actually understand the world beyond how the government used to educate us 20 years ago.
"Chinese is a term affectionately used for people born and bred in China. You don't call someone from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore a Chinese. It might come across as offensive or derogatory." => I think you mean to say “MAINLAND-Chinese”. The phrase stereotypically refers to the GENERALLY lower educated Chinese in Mainland China. Notoriously known for talking loudly, spit, cheat, steal, mistresses, married to Caucasian husband for citizenship later to cheat away all the money, etc. When mistakenly identified as “Mainland-Chinese”, it is not too hard to understand why some Chinese from Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore may find it offensive.
Having said that… Chinese, also know as Han-Chinese, refers to an ethnic group native to China. Therefore Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Singapore are 100% Chinese.
By the way, Caucasians are generally referred to as “Gwai-Low”. “Gwai” because of the blond hair, heavy beard and green eyes. Sounds very much like Rakshasa in Buddhist mythology.