Jianne Soriano, director and producer of“ Own Voices: Breaking Stereotypes”. She is Filipino and was born in Hong Kong.
minorities face include this communication barrier, alongside a lack of job opportunities and discrimination, there has been a wide range of growing support from groups and community projects. They not only guide and help ethnic minorities in their struggles, but also promote cultural diversity and integration between ethnic minorities and local people in the city. Currently, Hong Kong Unison has been working on policy advocacy work, promoting the importance of improving Chinese language education policies for ethnic minorities and providing talks on career development in secondary schools. While advocating for ethnic minorities, they also try to involve them as much as possible by giving non-Chinese university students the opportunity to speak at conferences. There have been student-led groups such as Education University’ s Intercultural Club and City University’ s Project EM Empowerment that contribute to the building of a social network and communication between ethnic minorities. The former aims to promote different cultures and make meaningful connections between those of different nationalities, while the latter often helps ethnic minorities in education and career development, holding cultural interactive workshops on a weekly basis. just recently held a documentary screening of their multimedia project in Lingnan University, a passion project called“ Own Voices: Breaking Stereotypes” that aims to tell the lives of ethnic minorities through their own voices. Their goal is to raise awareness and address stereotypes to foster understanding between ethnic minorities and local Chinese students in Hong Kong. While the racial gap cannot be changed drastically, we, together, can all try to share our stories, which are just as powerful as policies for instilling sympathy and change. As ethnic minorities, it is also important that we try to help ourselves as much as possible by trying our best to immerse ourselves in the language. For example, we should work at watching local television, listening to songs in Chinese, listening to how locals talk and speaking in Chinese in daily situations whenever we can, no matter how low our proficiency may be.
The littlest actions can make a big difference. References:
http:// www. scmp. com / comment / insight-opinion / article / 2134112 / hong-kongs-battle-over-language-ethnic-minority-children
https:// www. scmp. com / video / hongkong / 2102338 / schools-out-results-are-hongkong-students-receive-their-hkdse
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