Background:
Hong Kong is an international city named as “Asia’s World City”. Most of us living in Hong Kong are proud of this vibrant melting pot that is feeding multifarious languages, cultures and religions. Apart from official language (Chinese and English), miscellaneous languages can be found in Hong Kong such as Filipinos, Indonesians, Nepalese, and Pakistani etc. Those speaks are labeled as linguistic minorities. Thomas (2009) defined that linguistic minorities are non-dominant groups including ethic minorities and some Chinese minorities like Hakka, which linguistic characteristics markedly different from the rest of the population.
According to 2011 Population Census Report, half ethnic population are South Asian contributing 3% total Hong Kong population. 42.4% of them were born in Hong Kong or stayed for more than 7 years and obtained right of residence. However, Yaw(2008) mentioned that majority of South Asian had experienced discrimination in workplace while seeking job and working.. The children are hard to survive under Hong Kong education system. Moreover, from Census Report(2011), the majority of working South Asians were engaged as “Elementary occupations” which are low-skills and low-paid jobs. There are numerous reports and researches that point out the same fact that South Asians undergo discrimination due to different color of skin and low capability on using Chinese. This paper is mainly to investigate the crucial challenges of South Asians in Hong Kong as well as the major reason why the challenge exist and suggest appropriate alternatives to improve the situation.
Living issues:
Generally, the difficulties of South Asian living in Hong Kong can be classified as 3 areas. Firstly, in economic aspect, ...
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...ce we can only deal with in educational provision and encourage public to adopt and receive the culture and social issues of South Asian. The suggested solution is simple and general but run in comprehensive flow. The sequence is adopting new Chinese curriculum and public examination with highly recognition in society, allocating resources in schools by providing additional solid Chinese classes for EMS and introducing cultural living environments of minorities to public as part of education. It is convinced that the sustainable alternatives can shift South Asian life closer to our community. If we ignore minorities group, they will be encumbrance in Hong Kong such as drug, crime and many serious social problems.
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