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Open Door - New Zealand Chinese
Television (Full Length) – 2006
We lived this very two-tiered life. We spoke perfect English in the fruit shop, and then we walked through a door, we spoke Chinese.– Wong Liu Shueng
Being the model minority was really a disservice to mainstream New Zealand, because what we never taught you was something about our culture. We kept it silent. We kept it hidden.– Wong Liu Shueng
It ended up to be the most powerful, life-changing thing I've ever done ... I think in New Zealand what [my parents] were seeing was a wonderful opportunity for us children, and what they were seeing in me was a rebellious, unappreciative son, who was clearly not grasping anything of my cultural heritage, which was the point of sending us back.– Andrew Denton on travelling to China
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