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<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://sungaigweilo.blogspot.com/2008/08/sign-discrimination.html"><font color="#669922">Sign discrimination</font></a> </h3>
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<div class="post-body entry-content">Hong Kong has two official languages - Chinese and English. It is pity that sometimes English is only used and some 60% of the population are excluded. While the use of Chinese only affects only 5% (340,000) of the population, it is still a sizable number of folks who are left in the dark. In some parts of the world, language policy is used to stop the free movement of people. It is a barrier to pluralism.<br>
Often in Hong Kong, decision makers will defend such policies as saying "foreigners don't come here". Other examples are when rude and threatening memos accusing domestic helpers of rubbishing parts of a housing estate or public area are only posted in Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia.</div>
<div class="post-body entry-content"><br>Below are some examples of Chinese only signs.</div>
<div class="post-body entry-content"><br>I believe the one with the "$320" refers to some kind of impounding fee while the others are part of instructions on how to get from one floor to another due to problems with an escalator.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vGwrA9KOiw0/SJp0v1z4JPI/AAAAAAAABvA/-Qxlvb6_Ek8/s1600-h/lang+disc+-+1.jpg"></a></div>
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