LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
OF
AFRICAN COMMUNITY WORKERS
IN HK
By Lord Yeung, Samson Wong, Koy Kwong & Sarah Macbride
We are a group of students from the University of Hong Kong working on our course LCOM3001: Cultural Dimensions of Language and Communication instructed by Dr Lisa Lim. In this website, we are glad to share our insight(s) on some language and identity issues regarding African community workers in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, please join us in exploring some interesting aspects about Africa.
Sit back and RELAX. Let's begin with some COOL African Music : )
WHO WE ARE?
Take a look before your start
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Do you know?
Africans as the "minority among minorities" in Hong Kong
African community has been one of the most often neglected ethnic minority group in Hong Kong. As of July 2006, there were a total of 342,918 ethnic minorities in HK. According to the data of Census and Statistics Department in 2006, while Filipinos (32.9%), Indonesians (25.7%) and Nepalese (4.7%) were major ethnic minority groups in HK, Africans only accounted for less than 0.6%. Along with political voiceless-ness due to a small population, Africans also suffer from a lowest acceptance rate in HK mainstream society when compared with other minority groups, as indicated by Hong Kong Unison's survey in 2012.
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LinguisticMinorities.HK
"To the casual observer, Hong Kong appears to be a Cantonese-speaking city with some English and Putonghua added in. But like major cities the world over, Hong Kong has attracted people from many different places. Beneath the homogeneous Cantonese front is a mosaic of languages and cultures, and now they are the focus of a website launched in the School of English.
The website, LinguisticMinorities.HK, is a project of Assistant Professor Dr Lisa Lim to recognise the richness of Hong Kong's linguistic environment and give a voice to those communities that are sidelined or whose language is in danger of dying out. Her initiative is in line with the increased attention to linguistic and cultural diversity, and language documentation and description as a scholarly enterprise, as well as the growing awareness of conservation in the Hong Kong community."
-(extracted from HKU knowledge Exchange Newsletter Issue 6)
