Nepali community: missing the opportunity in Hong Kong
Chura Thapa
1 July 2009, Hong Kong
Hong Kong has a tiny population of Nepali community. According to Hong Kong Government figures there are roughly less than twenty thousand Nepalese nationals living in Hong Kong as permanent residents. Although the presence of Nepali nationals in Hong Kong can be traced back to British colonial times, the civilian habitation only began after the British packed up their colonial baggage and left Hong Kong in 1997.
Hong Kong’s return to China after almost 156 years of British colonial grip outshined Chinese pride in the city. Gripped by joy and astonishment over the establishment of Chinese sovereignty over Hong Kong, government officials ignored the presence of some overseas nationals like the Nepalese, an alien component of the population, in Hong Kong. Embarrassing revelations of discrimination of Hong Kong’s Nepalese nationals by the local community in the early 2000s awakened the government which initiated various alternative measures to alleviate the problems of the community. In order to establish an effective communication with various ethnic groups in Hong Kong and find ways to serve the community Hong Kong Government then established Race Relations Unit which is under the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau currently.
Much has changed since then. The Race Relations Unit is actively channeling different issues of various ethnic minority communities in Hong Kong to the relevant sections of the government and actively coordinating with various Chinese and non-Chinese NGOs to best serve their interests in Hong Kong. With a small number of staffs visible, the Unit seems to be striving hard to communicate with different communities, to channel their problems and to fund and monitor various projects for the ethnic minorities.
With its effort and support, several institutions and NGOs including VTC are offering Chinese language education for ethnic minorities. Various academic and professional institutions in Hong Kong have begun to introduce English medium courses suitable and essential to ethnic minorities. Primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong have been designated to cater for the new comers and provided funding for Chinese language education. Community support service projects have been funded for Pakistani and Nepalese community by the government for the last three years. Lately the Government has funded for four community service centers which will also provide Chinese and English language courses for ethnic minorities. Race Relations Unit has funded for radio programmes in Nepali language and Urdu language for the last five years.
However, members of ethnic minority communities seem to be ignoring the Government’s support and initiatives for integration of the communities into Hong Kong society. Chinese language education and learning are considered the keys to the integration of ethnic minorities into Hong Kong’s mainstream society. There are tremendous opportunities of learning Chinese language in Hong Kong and equally awaiting opportunities if Chinese language is learnt. Although some community leaders complain of being confined to unskilled jobs in Hong Kong, they have shown little interest to persuade the members in learning language and join various vocational as well as professional trainings which are available in English medium. Learning the language as well as the culture of the local community is also another important element in social integration. In order to learn another community’s culture, one has to communicate and get mixed with the community members. However, after years of residence in the Chinese populated city it would be a difficult mission to find a handful of people who greet the next door Chinese neighbour in Chinese language. Without the effort and hard work by the community members themselves, the fate of future generation cannot be prosperous.
Nepalese community leaders as well as members should realize the urgency of grabbing the educational and professional opportunities available in Hong Kong and get mixed up with the local Chinese population if they really feel Hong Kong as their home.
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