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- Hanfu Day (traditional dress day)
- Calligraphy workshop
- Excursion to Chinatown

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For me, the most influential part of Chinese culture is classical Chinese poetry and literature. It is a treasure of a very considerable number of brilliant and profound works as each dynasty. It contains deep philosophical thinking of ancient Chinese people, and it strongly influence my value.

For example:
己所不欲，勿施于人。
(do not do to others what you would not like to be done to you)

勿以恶小而为之，
勿以善小而不为。
(Do not do evil things though they may be insignificant. Do not give up good things though they may be minor matters)

学而不思则罔，
思而不学则殆。
(To learn without thinking is labor in vain, to think without learning is desolation)

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Chinese language is beautiful. I love the beauty of Chinese phonology. Because Chinese is a tonal language, standard Chinese has 4 tones, some dialects even have 9 tones, therefore Chinese language sounds like a beautiful song. And I admire the beauty of Chinese calligraphy. Here is a photo of one of the calligraphy styles that I copied and was trying to learn.

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The role of Chinese culture and language in Melbourne and/or wider australia (from an native Chinese's point of view)

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The role of Chinese culture and language in Melbourne and/or wider australia (from an native Chinese's point of view)

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- Make friends from that community, from that language speaking culture.

- Being able to see things happening in both world, both Chinese speaking world and English speaking world. Being able to find resources and answers from different perspective for you to interpret an issue.

-Helpful in breaking the monolingual mindset, and breaking down the barrier between different culture, teaching Chinese in specific can bring more understanding of Chinese culture, and in what way Chinese people think about the surrounding, promotes social inclusion and understanding.

- Because it is so different from English, learning Chinese build a new way in processing language. Instead of limiting yourself, it richer your identity.

- For me, learning Chinese reinforce my identify as a Chinese. Because it facilitate my understanding of my culture root. China has huge bank of history that I can rely on to make meaning of the world, I have these rich resources to rich my own understanding of the world. History repeats itself, China has long timeline of history, around 5000 years, that is a rich data base. Things happened before, now showing up in modern society in a different way, I can interpret those things, make connections, and I can assess them in a very authentic way use the target language to approach. We have a lot of ideas came in the past, in Confucianism, in Chinese history, we have got different schools, we have got a time, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion (百家争鸣; "hundred schools contend")… now we lost faith in academy…. There is a lot to learn.

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What are the stereotypes that people from other countries may have towards China or Chinese people?

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What are the stereotypes that people from other countries may have towards China or Chinese people?

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“They may think they are really quiet. They are studious. They are good follower of ideology, instead of creator, they are strong at duplicating things, instead of creating their own."

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A native speaker's perception of Chinese culture

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A native speaker's perception of Chinese culture

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Chinese culture has a lot of component, sub-cultures, involves a lot of ancient philosophy: Confucianism, Taoism, Taoism, etc. A lot of component and philosophies come from Chinese history.

People used to think themselves as a part of a bigger community, but now we have a fair balance of an individualism and a collectivism, by the influences of western philosophy.

The way we perceived the world is different. We rather see the world as some place more harmonious with the nature, we see ourselves as one with nature (天人合一; "Harmony between men and nature"), western culture interprets their relationship with the world as system themselves, identify themselves as dominator of nature, with emphasise on the importance of human race.

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A native
speaker’s perception of Chinese language 

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A native
speaker’s perception of Chinese language 

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Chinese language is very complex, it has difficult structure, totally different system, being able to speak it as an English speaker requires a lot of transformation, in a lingual language they have to use from one way to another, there were a lot of thinking processes involved

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The role of Chinese culture and language in Melbourne and/or wider Australia (from an native Australian's point of view)

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The role of Chinese culture and language in Melbourne and/or wider Australia (from an native Australian's point of view)

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-       Very big trading partner, Chinese tourist, education (a lot of students are from China, it is a business), learning Chinese language helped to grow that.

-       A military aspect, it is important to have military people that understand each other’s language.

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- It is a character language.

- It structured very differently.

- A lot of variation, a lot of dialects.

- Develop of Chinese type writer was very difficult.

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- "very ancient culture that hasn’t changed very much for very long time. I have experienced Chinese culture when I was really young, and it isn’t changed much. It is like a little pocket in western culture.”

- "Chinese food was the main part that I saw. I saw some Chinese culture celebration. I read some Chinese folk stories. I learnt about the cultural revolution in China. During cultural revolution, I was not allowed to visit China. "

- China has very long history. That was fascinating.

- "There was a lot of technologies, military ideas. For example, Sun Tzu (孙子), his principles of war still valid today, still true."