I’m half Hakka on my mother’s side. Thanks for this video. While I never learned to speak Hakka since Mandarin is spoken at home but my mother raised me with a deep respect for her people. I have witnessed her courage, kindness, and hard working ethics and proud to be half Hakka. Exploring my heritage now which is long overdue. Btw, both my parents are Christian as I am too which I am thankful for.
Lee Kwon Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, was Hakka. Possibly, Hakka are over-represented by diaspora from China globally (i.e. in their ethnic or sub-ethnic origins). A bit like the Irish.
Barbarian tribes overwhem large classical empires in Eurasia, when the regnant dynasty grows corrupt or weak (militarily and economically). Occurred in classical Rome in the 5th and 6th centuries. China somehow rejuvenated, whereas the Germanic tribes that invaded Roman lands, remained permanent in Northern Europe (not Southern Europe and North Africa).
Eh, China is a cultural concept. Many nomadic peoples invaded China and became culturally Chinese. China has had multiple foreign invader dynasties but they all to various extents became sinicized. This is due to the wealth of Chinese culture and the vast size of China. And classical Rome started out as a city state that turned into a large multi cultural empire but that’s less so the case of China. The Roman Empire was built around the culture of Rome until Constantinople and that wasn’t so much the case of China because it has had so many different capitals meaning that every dynasty had their own culture to an extent while still being Chinese.
Thank you very much for promoting Hakka traditional cultural heritage. 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
I’m half Hakka on my mother’s side. Thanks for this video. While I never learned to speak Hakka since Mandarin is spoken at home but my mother raised me with a deep respect for her people. I have witnessed her courage, kindness, and hard working ethics and proud to be half Hakka. Exploring my heritage now which is long overdue. Btw, both my parents are Christian as I am too which I am thankful for.
Not all Hakka speak Hakka. My family’s part of the Hu clan and they spoke Cantonese instead of Hakka.
I am Hakka I am proud of this video
Lee Kwon Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, was Hakka. Possibly, Hakka are over-represented by diaspora from China globally (i.e. in their ethnic or sub-ethnic origins). A bit like the Irish.
Barbarian tribes overwhem large classical empires in Eurasia, when the regnant dynasty grows corrupt or weak (militarily and economically). Occurred in classical Rome in the 5th and 6th centuries. China somehow rejuvenated, whereas the Germanic tribes that invaded Roman lands, remained permanent in Northern Europe (not Southern Europe and North Africa).
Eh, China is a cultural concept. Many nomadic peoples invaded China and became culturally Chinese. China has had multiple foreign invader dynasties but they all to various extents became sinicized. This is due to the wealth of Chinese culture and the vast size of China. And classical Rome started out as a city state that turned into a large multi cultural empire but that’s less so the case of China. The Roman Empire was built around the culture of Rome until Constantinople and that wasn’t so much the case of China because it has had so many different capitals meaning that every dynasty had their own culture to an extent while still being Chinese.