Thinking about heading back to China

[Scott R. Brown]

Yep.
I wasn't born here and I miss the homeland a lot BUT I CHOSE Canada and chose to BE Canadian.
I don't know if people that are born in a country understand the huge significance of that...
I love Canada and I have been around the world and while Portugal will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart, I AM CANADIAN

No, no, no! You got it all wrong......you are Portuguese-Canadian!

[David Jamieson]

The new way we say it up here is:

I'm a Canadian. Of Scots/Welsh heritage.

"Canadian" comes first.

I had an interesting encounter the other day. I'm at the Tim's drive through and teh girl who gives me my coffee has a name tag that says "jingle"

I say "hey! Jingle, that's a cool name!".

She says: "Yes, back home many people have this name"

I said "You're not Canadian then?"

She said: "Yes, of course I am!"

I laughed, but it will change as time passes. People forget what decisions they have made and what those decisions will change and what that means.

Newcomer refugees, I feel for. they aren't home and have to sit far away and watch crap go down in their homelands. But people who chose to come and live and make money who refuse to call it or make it home?

I find that weird.

[sanjuro_ronin]

No, no, no! You got it all wrong......you are Portuguese-Canadian!

If I choose to put my ethnic background before my CHOSEN citizenship, perhaps.
But I don't choose to do so.
Fact is that I am more Canadian than Portuguese now, I cam over here when I was 18 and I am now 43.
I will always be Lusitanian in blood, yes, but I am Canuck in everything other than my dislike for hockey and the snow.

[Lucas]

I will always be Lusitanian in blood, yes, but I am Canuck in everything other than my dislike for hockey and the snow.

Careful, I hear you get deported if the authorities here of that kind of behavior.

[TAO YIN]

We took our little one over to China last year to see his grandparents for three months. It was great. I didn't know until going back how much I missed it. Didn't feel as welcome as pre Olympics, but still had a great time.

Being a gypsy is great anyways, and most kids have fun no matter the place.

[SimonM]

One month later and the itch is still there. I've had "we gotta get out of this place" running through my head all week - which is always a bad sign. (It's never good when you find yourself humming the Animals.)

I'm not sure how easy it's going to be to get a marketing job while in Canada though. A lot of the guys on the linkedin boards I've been haunting are already China-side and my "can move as soon s I get a visa" status might be a barrier.

Any suggestions from the peanut gallery?