ethnic chinese women in china march 9 luhmann has been elected the local northern ireland parliament. repeated racist harassment, said after her election, he would challenge the local apartheid culture, committed to advancing racial equality. according to british media reports, china is the united kingdom luhmann might even be the first chinese-european members.

memorable thick accent

the 56-year-old anna lo was born in hong kong, china 32 years ago and moved to northern ireland, northern ireland has served as director-general of the chinese welfare association, is a professional social mbt shoes clearance workers. she spoke cantonese mixed with a strong flavor.

anna lo said she's run was her continuation of the work in the community services, the chinese politics in northern ireland has never had a sense of belonging, and she hoped that the future make the voices of the chinese politics in northern ireland spread out. she said: "i got a lot of positive response, they come from different backgrounds, they all congratulate me to run. the chinese community and supports me a lot."

luhmann china in december last year, was the alliance party stand for election nominations, the final and the other six members of the alliance party, together enter a 108-member northern ireland assembly.

as the alliance party members, luhmann china are neither orange new sects, catholics did not belong to the green. she said: "i believe in taoism, is not a christian, and i naturally would not be orange or green. i really located in the middle."

canvassing carry with alarms

more serious ethnic conflict in northern ireland. luhmann chinese political figure as a minority, often subject to racist harassment.

anna lo said that the local chinese in the past because of race issues in northern ireland's political arena, been neglected, so she wanted to fight for the right to speak for the chinese. this claim sparked a racist hatred. anna lo, after the announcement of elections by constant racist harassment, had mbt shoes sale been kicked in the street, took a lot of threatening phone calls.

some people have questioned her qualifications to stand for election, and verbal insults, and even an extreme right-wing web site photos of her, mbt shoes clearance together with a number of pornographic photographs posted on the page. during the two 6-week election campaign, luhmann chinese in northern ireland in belfast, capital of the southern street to street, door-to-door visits. this piece of the region both at queen's university student life area and where the most elegant residential area, there are racist people in rampant protestant ghettos. the police suggested that she carry an alarm against the racist harassment. anna lo has never been back, and won broad support in the south belfast constituency, six seats to finish mbt shoes sale third, much more than analysts expected.

to settle in the first ballot of 30 elderly chinese in

intimidation of the extremists can not stop the determination of luhmann chinese politics, said after her election, many chinese lived in northern ireland for 30 years until this year the first ballot, they finally have a vote in support of the object.

according to statistics, overseas chinese in britain there are about 30 million people, mostly from hong kong, china, in addition come from

malaysia, the chinese mainland immigrants. there are currently one-third of a concentration of chinese in the greater london area, other cities such as birmingham, manchester,

liverpool and edinburgh, scotland, and so are the chinese colony, while more than ten thousand chinese residents in northern ireland is the oldest and largest local minority ethnic communities.

anna lo said mbt sale frankly, many chinese immigrants see themselves as second-class citizens, many of whom had been subjected to racial discrimination, but now they finally have a representative can speak for them. she said that more than 10000 for the province speak cantonese chinese fight mbt goti for their rights.

"i think all the factions on behalf of my constituency, and to work for them, i do not want to be seen as representatives of ethnic minorities." anna lo said: "but i do want to challenge racial segregation here, culture, and to promote factional integration, encourage people to one of mutual respect. "

deng yushan (xinhua news agency zhuangao)

chinese voices crescendo

chinese in britain is mainly engaged in the catering industry, while there are many chinese involved in chinese medicine, chinese medicine clinics and the whole united kingdom in a total of more than 2,000 pharmacies.

chinese immigrants in the past always feel that you have that capability should be used in the professional technical or business aspects of the political has always distanced themselves from him. later, we personally feel that the overseas if you do not really integrate into mainstream society, not politics, political, politicians, they would be marginalized by the unequal treatment. lessons learned through painful experience, we gradually realized must be political participation, there must be the voice of the chinese.

most of the first generation of chinese living abroad, political participation is there, not only because of the real problems of survival, but also the integration of cultural adjustment problems. therefore, the first generation of chinese began to politics is based on a start from me from now adhere to the spirit of starting down.

new immigrants, unlike the old chinese and overseas chinese can only be sold as cheap labor, many of whom have advanced degrees from elite, coupled with the second generation of immigrant communities have also come to the fore, they are willing to contribute to a country and society, so they join the politics. their election, of course, better for the chinese for the reasonable interests.

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