全体同志们请注意,过两天圣诞游行,圣诞老人在街上派发的礼物可千万别接着,免得楼下的某些同志嘀咕:这些中国人又去领救济。了! 作者: wang8 时间: 2001-12-16 01:16
when i was a kid, mom told me,"never accept candies from other people." i refuted her, "why not? they seem sincerely want me to have it, and i shall never say no to candies." "boy, you should look at your manners, good manner will make people like you more, and you can have the whole world in one day if you have proper manner."
thank you, mom. i remember what you told me, and today i eventually got your message.
christmas basket, soup kitchen, savation army.... are all for the less fortunate peopele, and we canadian have a tradition to show them our love and sympathy at this season. if you're short of cash, you shall take it with garce, nothing wrong with that. after all, you are just less fortunate than others. if you're new to this country and took those "gift" by mistake, don't worry too much, we all have made stupid mistakes. just shrug your shoulder and walk away. i don't believe they will delay your citizenship processing because you are not that rich. "people are all equal and should not be discriminated, our social service should never based on classfication." is cleared writen on the canadian constitution.
buy if you think "cheap", i mean you work on "cash" basis, you skip all tips , you never carry your wallet with you, you take whatever available basket home withouting asking what for.... then your soul is truely live in a very low level. god bless you.作者: meimei 时间: 2001-12-16 03:36
精彩作者: hjl2001 时间: 2001-12-16 12:06 作者: Crystal 时间: 2001-12-16 13:46
Wang8, well said. Thank u for ur words on this... I just can't agree more!
我的“大陆仔”朋友们,什么时候才不让洋人看低我们,不让迂腐的人们看低我们呢?其实,跟这里的很多洋人比,你,并不缺钱。作者: mayfleur 时间: 2002-1-28 13:57
i don't think our new immigrants should not accept any allowence e.g. the christmas basket if they are really in neeed of help. however, my dear friends, please keep in mind, we are independent immigrants. it means we believe our skills and talents, we believe we can support ourselves and be a tax payer.作者: 我就乱说 时间: 2002-1-28 14:21
讨论什么,一个字儿:
都是出国害的,如果她不是幻想着自己会有比以前更好的的生活,如果不是为了长父母的颜面,她现在应该在国内过着相当不错的生活,而不是在这里愁着钱的来源。看着银行里只剩下不到2000加币的存折,和那些应付的房费还有帐单,还有一张上有一则相当诱人薪水的"工作",她流下了眼泪。作者: wang8 时间: 2002-1-29 12:57
want to know how cheap chinese can be?
price-sensitve is not such a bad thing, and we chinese have a good tradion of constarining our spending habbit for future emergency situations. but if we overlook the value of money, and throw self-respect away, people can do all kinds of weired things.
please be noticed, the story happened in shanghai, but i think the scope could be much larger (christmas basket incident acutally happened in montreal)... its a shame for shanghainese, but this could be a good lesson to learn for all chinese:
发生在中国第一大都市上海的奇闻---厕所鸡宴