so what the heck am i talking about//

(transcribed from sketchbook)
Ultimately I what I would like to challenge the power of language and how that serves to shape and create identities. How language serves as a mechanism to improve a person's chances of success or failure. Being Chinese Canadian and an immigrant, I have a mixture of identities that I live by everyday of my life. Although I am Chinese, never did I feel discrimination, and most of it has to do with the fact that I can speak Cantonese, Mandarin, English and French fluently (flawless if I ever wanted to). Funny enough I had the chance to work in a call center for four years, and over the years I've had people say racist comments about Chinese people to my face, but of course it's so ironic because I'm Chinese, but just without an accent. With that being said, there are advantages, because I know for a fact that I get treated better over the phone because I don't have an accent, and I know that because other Asian people who work with me have been told that they dont' want to be spoken to because they, "can't speak English." Then I hear from my friends that they got declined for jobs because they speak English with an accent. The point here is that they speak with an ACCENT- it's not that they don't understand English, they are more than capable of performing that job accordingly than any other.

to be continued...