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Ethnic Minorities In Hong Kong Essay

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Shiv Malhotra

Dr. Marty Schmidt

Humanities I in Action

24 February 2015

The Struggles Faced by Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong

Introduction In Hong Kong “Chinese is the first language for over 90 per cent of the city's population.”(SCMP Editorial). Ethnic minorities make up 6.4% of the Hong Kong population (“Timeout”) and many of them struggle with speaking, reading, and writing Chinese. It is known that “Hong Kong’s ethnic minority students lag in Chinese language skills”(Niroula), and for those who don’t have a high proficiency of Chinese, living in Hong Kong is nothing less than a struggle. This results in the struggles that many ethnic minorities face in Hong Kong, their low level of Chinese has impacted many aspects …show more content…

In this case, it is the Hong Kong educators’ ignorance of the Chinese language needs of the ethnic minorities. As Fermi Wong, leader of an ethnic minority care center, Unison has stressed the need for Chinese as a second language to be part of the curriculum for ethnic minorities (Lau). While the Hong Kong educators have attempted to implement an Chinese program but a human rights team believes that the Chinese language curriculum doesn’t suit the needs of ethnic minorities.(Lau) These actions must be put into place, while there have been a few measures put into place to aid the ethnic minorities recently a survey done by the Hong Kong Christian Service has shown “that they have failed to help them improve their Chinese competence.”(Niroula) Fermi Wong has also written in a petition to send the Chief Executive detailing the need “to improve Chinese language education for ethnic minorities...[and] the current Chinese language education policy fails to equip ethnic minorities with adequate Chinese skills”. (Wong) We must come together as a population and provide the ethnic minorities with the right materials to put a stop to the vicious cycle the minorities have been placed …show more content…

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