Discrimination is a punchline for Hong Kong-born comedian Vivek Mahbubani.
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- Hong Kong-born Vivek Mahbubani, who is fluent in Cantonese and English, is one of the comedians performing in this week’s Magners Comedy Festival. He talks to the SCMP about his experiences of racism in the city he calls home.
Writing from Singapore as a Chinese. We have a vibrant Indian community in Singapore, and in fact they formed a pillar of our Singapore society. And I can assure you, Indian are smart people, eloquent and probably the best speakers in the world. Try an Indian litigation lawyer one of this day. Their food are superb, and their usage of masala in food will resurrect your taste bud.
Spot on. I knew I was correct when riding the MTR. I can't understand Cantonese but I can read the eyes of Hong Kong people.
Yeah traveling while Desi is a real struggle worldwide same as traveling while Black too
Why does the HK cop bounce his feet when pronouncing Mohammeded? Sorry, but his comedy sometimes sounds a little racist and anti-HK Chinese. I'm actually surprised Indians don't tend to speak Cantonese in HK, and that people are surprised when they do. I assumed that 2nd or 3rd generation Indian HKers would all be fluent in Cantonese.
MoonInSky you'll be surprised to know that most of the new gen. kids also cannot speak cantonese
i'd be surprised if he wasn't anti-hk Chinese considering how they treat him there.
It's hard to learn a language when the locals tend to actively reject and discriminate, so the people tend to stick to the ethnicity and races of their own people and not be as involved with the local culture because of the discrimination they face. Even the ones who are not as vocal about their racism, their actions speaks a lot about their racial biases. Most comedians use their comedy to cope with their trauma, this seems like one of those cases where he's projecting and coping his hurt through comedy.
Even if it's 2nd generation, 3rd generation that have lived in Hong Kong, many locals still actively discriminate against them and isolate them by not including them or ignoring them. Hong Kong is not very open to race and ethnicity that are brown, they're more open with East Asians and White people.
This happen every day in hk ,police stoping blacks and others country people on control like the are not human being the discrimination is too much especially taxis drivers, this really happen all the time, for no reason at all
reed orm Then go back, go back your home!
@@jagdpanther2224 Wrong English again. Then go back to* your home