本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛one of the special things reflected in overseas Chinese is the "motherland complex".

if you already obtain Canadian passport, which is the most solid proof of canadian citizenship, but you still identify you are a Chinses citizen, then how can you blame other Canadians not treat you as 'zi ji ren' , in terms of
career, promotion, politics, etc... you refuse to join the society at first place--when you take the oath (lolyal to Canada and the Queen), while you keep considering you belong to China and keep thinking Canadian passport is just a symbolic document , you in fact betray your oath. like or not, this is true.

I am talking about citizenship, not origin of nationality. of course we should be proud of our culture (or race, i hate this word) root, but different nations have different definitions on citizenship. to be frank China's citizenship definition is quite dumb---not only based on your birthplace, but also on your boodline, if you have a baby born in, say, Tororonto, then go Chinese Consul for Chinese citizenship, see what will happen.

since you already selected to reside in Canada permenantly, and already obtain its passport, I can't be convinced that you are still a zhongGuoRen.

I often wonder, why the children who are a natural USA citizen (born in USA) are called (by their parents or friends with Chinese background) ABC, he/she is actually a Chinese American, but is not an American Chinese.

You attribute this to the fact that Chinese are always Chinese, no matter where he is born, I attribute this to the fact that you volunteerily refuse to join or merge into the society which you will really not leave更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

在加拿大呆几年更多的是想多一点人生体验（办移民好象是当时最方便的方法，又道听途说了永久居民的相关规定），所以我把入籍当作一件两难的大事，多一点考虑，不涉及国家民族大义，只是奢望有一个两全的决定。现在看来两全既为两缺，人生不如意事十之八九，我才五六，也该知足了。