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	<title>Tower of Confusion &#187; Multiculturalism</title>
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		<title>Languages and Business Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2010/05/31/languages-and-business-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I and my wife went to a Chinese café for breakfast. Somehow they offered free Chinese newspaper. I looked for the headline expecting some specular world event to unfold. To my disappointment, the headline read &#8220;華裔移民第二代 喜中西合璧婚宴&#8221; (2nd-generation Chinese prefer Chinese-Western fusion wedding banquets). It also showed the photo of a businessman who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry, I Don&#8217;t Speak French</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2009/02/09/sorry-i-dont-speak-french/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read the book &#8220;Sorry, I Don&#8217;t Speak French&#8220;, which gave a very comprehensive account on the language struggle in the recent history of Canada.
To those who are not familiar with the issue, French has been spoken predominately in the Quebec province, and English in the rest of Canada. The Quebeckers resent the lack [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pretend To Be Foreign</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/12/11/pretend-to-be-foreign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Language learners often agonize at occasions when they try to practice a language with the natives, only to receive responses in their own language (often English). Imagine the reverse happens. Someone greets you in your learning language. But the fact that the language was also foreign to her was so obvious that you would not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Québec City&#8217;s 400th</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/07/03/quebec-citys-400th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/07/03/quebec-citys-400th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, Québec City celebrates its 400th anniversary. This is of course a good opportunity for the Canadian francophones to promote their culture and language.
Although the official opening ceremony was held today, many celebration activities have already been undertaken nation-wide in the past few months. There was a festival held in downtown Toronto 2 weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pronunciation-Wrestling</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/06/24/pronunciation-wrestling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last project at work, we dealt with a US telecommunication company. We had a team consisted of about 6-7 colleagues from the US and 4 of us from Canada, all &#8216;locked&#8217; in a conference room somewhere in the vicinity of Seattle.
Since our client was a telecommunication company, the word &#8216;Mobile&#8217; came up extremely [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sophia Books</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/06/18/sophia-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/06/18/sophia-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to business reasons, I had to travel to Seattle back-and-fro in the past few weeks. I came back to Toronto each weekend stopping over at the Vancouver Airport. In the Memorial Day long-weekend, I had trouble connecting to an immediate flight from Vancouver. I ended up spending 6 hours in Vancouver. I went out [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Quadriplegic Mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/03/03/the-quadriplegic-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/03/03/the-quadriplegic-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Punjabi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan caught the attention of the international media back in 2006, when he accepted the flag at the closing ceremonies of the Turin Winter Olympics. He is Canada&#8217;s first disabled mayor and also the first quadriplegic mayor of a North American city.
The mayor was paralysed after a tragic skiing accident when he [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>International Mother Language Day</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/02/21/international-mother-language-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2008/02/21/international-mother-language-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is designated to be the &#8220;International Mother Language Day&#8221;, whatever it might mean&#8230;
The United Nation has proclaimed 2008 the &#8220;International Year of Languages&#8221;, whatever it might mean. But still this seems to me more meaningful that the &#8220;International Mother Language Day&#8221;.
According to this UN link, the International Mother Language Day has been observed every [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Languages Spoken in Toronto</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/12/10/languages-spoken-in-toronto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/12/10/languages-spoken-in-toronto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandarin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After more than a year of waiting, the data finally came out last week. Statistics Canada released the language-related statistics of the 2006 census.
Here are the top 20 languages &#8220;spoken most often at home&#8221; in Toronto, my home town, and their corresponding head-counts and percentages:

English &#8211; 2746480 (55.31%)
Italian &#8211; 185760 (3.74%)
Chinese, n.o.s. &#8211; 172040 (3.46%)
Cantonese [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Language of Good</title>
		<link>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/12/01/the-language-of-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/12/01/the-language-of-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cantonese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I have joined so many language exchange websites, I am quite used to receiving language exchange requests from time to time. Back in September, I received yet another one. But this time it was a bit unusual.
First of all, she was a native French speaker (bilingual French/English to be exact) asking for a Cantonese [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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