A Chink in the Armour
March 10th, 2007 by Michael Kwan|
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What you’re about to view below is a documentary done in a Michael Moore-like style about what it’s like being a Chinese-Canadian. This 25-minute film (it’s worth it), by university student Baun Mah, is not about immigrants who come to our maple syrup-fueled nation and try to adapt to Western ways. It’s about people like me: children of immigrants who feel more Canadian than they do Chinese. As a banana (yellow on the outside, white on the inside), I identify more with Jim Carrey than I do Jackie Chan. Do we all know kung fu? Are we all bad drivers? Are we good at math? Watch and find out.
Thanks to Susanne for sending me the link.
Filed under Arts and Entertainment.
Well, it is okay actually. We are so much globalised that it does not really matter where we came from, but how we live and connect with people from our own perspective. Be comfortable with who you are, that’s what is most important.
That was frickin’ hilarious
Good one!
[...] Michael posted this film on his blog recently and I actually quite enjoyed it. It’s called A Chink in the Armour, a short, 25-minute documentary made by Baun Mah, a student in Toronto. While some of his tests are not very scientific in nature (I mean…just because they can’t translate doesn’t mean they don’t speak the language…), the short is pretty funny and well made. I wish he would’ve differentiated more between bananas like me and more recent immigrants, though, to see if the stereotypes are more on a cultural basis. [...]