Sunday, October 12, 2008

Civilization Through Communication


There are trends in using different wording to describe people of limited capability.

The very first common word is "Handicapped", then a few years , we used another word "Disable" which seems to be more appropriate but "Disable" is not a noun, hence later on we apply " Disable People". Now it seems that we are moving to new term " People of limited capability"

Another common words which does not show any respect at all in Cantonese intrgretation:
Gwei Low- Devil foreigner
Ah Cha - Indian
Hak Gwui - Black people
Bun Mui - Philippino woman
I hope more and more pepole will start to show respect to other races living in Hong Kong and the visitor coming to HK to show our courtery and civilization!



Stop using these words auch as Gwei Low, Ah Cha....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Hong KOng Snob" = " Not a gentleman; one who arrogates to himself merits which he does not deserve."

You have a bad taste of Blog title and not in line with what you write.

HK Snob said...

Hi Who is this?.... I guess that no one would call himslef a : Gentleman" and in fact, I am a lousy chap nothing valued to be qualify as a "Gentleman" so you can help to to change a better title? I would like to conisder if that fits me!

Paul