The spiciest takes on my YouTube comments are those that think I have no ground to speak about Chinese culture bc I "speak English like a native" and must be "westernized" when I am NATIVE-BORN CHINESE and ironed my accent out due to bullying after coming to Canada in my TEENS
I've faced 2 different sets of assumptions before and after I made the conscious effort to mimic a Canadian accent it's wild
Before: Must be international student, won't integrate well
After: Must be diaspora-born, disconnected from own culture, can't speak Mandarin
Before: Must be international student, won't integrate well
After: Must be diaspora-born, disconnected from own culture, can't speak Mandarin
When u can in fact speak Mandarin and English equally perfectly and are also equally immersed in both Chinese and Western cultures 
anyway i didn't do years of 广播体操 in these ugly ass uniforms just to be told I'm not Chinese enough i have done my dues
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