As someone from northeast India, I can feel the pain of the Chinese Indians who had to face all the adversities and racism after the Indo China war. And I want them to know that a lot of Indians care about them and consider them as our own cause they are Indians too! Let peace and love prevail everywhere ❤
@@kamakshikaul its still the same Every norteast tribes who work study or visit mainland gets name calling and racism Bitter truth hurts Bhakts like u are blind to this issues And also SAVE MANIPUR
That boy in the end gave me tears. His sentiments of being indian as well as chinese makes me feel that adults lose their sense of belongingness no matter what race.
I am an indian chinese. From tangra. Kolkata, India. And i identify myself as an indian. A proud Indian. Many from my community left for abroad. Its their choice. Its a trend generally seen in India. To move abroad due to high population and competition. Statistically its the same in China. Its bullshit and Has nothing to do with India not doing well or not supporting our community. Its not everyone else’s fault if the community does not open up. It likes to be within itself. Shying away. Always.
In ancient time Chinese used to visit in indian universities for studying we had strong bond and connection but now this bond is detached ,today tibbet people they love india china forcefully occupied our land ,and they also targeting noth eastern Indian states ,some people failed to adopt the Indian culture failed to adopt the lifestyle of India so what should we do ,they want better lifestyle that's why they leaving india ,,,
I’m Singaporean and I never knew there’s a Chinese community in India! I find it very fascinating seeing ethnically Chinese individuals speaking English with a Tamil accent. It’s really sad that the heritage is disappearing by the day, but I can also understand why people are leaving for a better future. Thank you for the insights!
Well when I was in JB just returned from Singapore for work and I’ve met this one indian lady from Indonesia and yeah she’s a legit Indonesian citizen. I had no idea about their diaspora that spread elsewhere other than Malaysia and Singapore and perhaps Brunei.
@@nomadblueprintThere's a small Indian community in Indonesia. They are usually in the textile business. In Medan, there's a place called "Kampung Madras", a vibrant Indian Indonesian community.
@@nomadblueprint Yup, There are Indian Indonesia in Indonesia. Most of them spread in Sumatra Province, concentrate in Kampung Madras or Kampung Keling, Medan - North Sumatra. Also in Pasar Baru, Jakarta and small community in Jogyakarta, Central Java Province. Most of their livelihood are selling textille, Indian spices or sport supplier. And in Sumatra, some of them sell food, called "mie rebus / Boiled Noodle" or mie keling, an authentic noodle with thick sauce. No offence, in the past we usually called them "Keling" refer to their dark skin tone color.
We in Malaysia are very lucky to be able to maintain Chinese education because the tolerance between the races here is very good.. we hope the harmony of the diversity of races in Malaysia will last forever..
My Teacher was a Chinese Indian from Kolkata he passed away few years ago. I can say he was also from Kolkata. And I’m really grateful I got to witness this. My teacher was best he was my mentor my. He changed my life. I really wish all the Chinese Indians can still preserve their culture. ❤❤❤ and even I am from Singapore. I was studying in India for few years. I met him in india dehradun really miss him.
malaysian chinese are despicabIe and look down on Iocals......chinese in thailand and indonesia are 100x better and have assimilated into the IocaI cuIture
मैं भारतीय नागरिक हू। मुझे आपके वीडियो देखकर मालूम हुआ की कोलकाता शहर में चीनी समुदाय के लोग पिछले कई वर्षो से निवास में है। यह जानकर दुख हुआ की उन चीनी भाईयो को भेदभाव झेलना पड़ रहा है। उनके फैक्ट्री व्यापार स्कूल बंद हो गए। लोग पलायन कर गए। बड़े दुख की बात है। उम्मीद है बाकी के बचे लोग खुशहाली से जीवन व्यतीत करेंगे।
@@chengloong889Being an Indian, I want to tell you that we agree with all your points but except one thing. That is that India has occupied China. And brother, I have seen your media spreading hatred towards India, why so? China always claims to indian territory and renaming the part of aruranchal pradesh .
@@chengloong889 चीन प्राचीन काल से लेकर चेन काई शेक सत्ता तक चीन भारत का घनिष्ट मित्र था लेकिन जबसे सत्ता में माओ त्से तुंग आने के वजह चीनी विचारधारा कम्युनिस्ट हो गई। जिन चीनियों ने कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी का विरोध किया उनको कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के अधिकारियों पुलिस/आर्मी ने मार दिया याफीर उनकी आवाज को दबा दिया जो चीनी अमीर थे वह ताइवान में जाकर बस गए । आगे जाकर कम्युनिस्ट माओ त्से तुंग के नेतृत्व में तिब्बत और भारत के कैलाश मानसरोवर और अरुणाचल , लद्दाख को पर हमला किया। तब हमारे देश के अंग्रेजो के मानसिकता/गुलामी की मानसिकता और अंग्रजो के चाटुकारा नेता पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरु था । सत्ताओं के बदल जाने से विचारधारा भी बदल जाती है यह नेहरू को समझ नहीं आया ।
I so love the response from the little kid. This is the kind of world I also wish for all young people in today's fractured earth, so broken up into this group or that group, this/that religion, ethnicity, background, skin colour, etc. This boy is blessed to think and talk like that!
As an Indian: Thank you for contributing to the story of India. I understand that everyone strives for a better life, whether in their home country or abroad. I wish you the best, and I also wish for you to know that if you still want to call India one of your home countries then you are more than welcome to do so. Personally, I will always consider you as much Indian as myself. Outside of politics (which I don’t want to talk about), Indians and Chinese get along wherever they live. I have cousins who are married to Chinese women living in America, Canada and Australia. I also know that Indians have been living peacefully in Hong Kong for many generations and are very happy with their Chinese (Cantonese) neighbours. Personally, I studied in Australia and 2 of my closest friends were from China. They were among the best people I have met abroad: always wanting to pay for our dinners and drinks, and being the best hosts whenever I went for dinner with them, and also some of the most genuine and fun guys to get drunk with. Again, without getting into politics, I hope the people of India and China can continue to get along. We share many things in common despite our differences.
No, China and India never get along well you don't need to wish. The same goes for Vietnam and Philippine for the same reason that is China just wants everything belongs to them! Very greedy country. That attitude certailny causes suspicion amonsgt non-chinese communities in those countries. Chinese still worships their former homeland resisting assimilation, setting up their Chinese schools etc after 300 years just pack up and go back to China, no need to worry about everything thatcis not chinese. Your homeland should wellcome you as the sons and daughters have lost, shouldn't they as China is now very rich , 2nd after US, and powerful!
Better life usually means more money, where ever they get significantly more money people want to go there, USA and some western countries knew this, so they attract workers, thats all there to it.
@@gshrdy5415 Opportunity not decline here in kolkata but it gets better. This Indian Chinese can't afford that. This Indian Chinese run leathers business in the center of kolkata which is very harm full to environment. Creat lot's of emissions problem. Not good for health life. So government creat a whole new leather complex in out skirt of kolkata . Which is called bantala leather complex. But problem is this Indian Chinese can't afford the factories their may be . So you can't blame government. They tried their best to protect enviroment. And also market of leathers became More big. Infact biggest leather factories located here in bantala leather complex.
I’m Indian and my wife is Chinese American! We have a lot of shared values like family values and the way we think about money and parents and education.
I live in Calcutta / Kolkata and I am almost 60 years old. Chinese community in Kolkata lived in 1 single address - 47, South Tangra Road. It was and still now a Chinese Fort with 6 entrances or gates only and they used to get opened and closed by the community everyday where non-Chinese were forbidden to enter except the labourers who used to work in the tanneries. The tannery process practiced by the Chinese was extremely toxic as a result Govt. made Kolkata Leather Complex some 20 years back under Court order due to tremendous pollution level. The pollution was so high that no one used to buy 2nd hand cars owned by the Chinese since the whole cars used to get corroded in no time. It was so high that the labels on Coca Cola Bottles used to get blackened out with three days sitting on the rack. But the Chinese having very large factories and making tremendous money from Leather product exports never wanted to invest from their earnings to take up a much better and modern facility in the leather complex and hence migrated. The food joints had always been there, they used to be know as Chinese Eateries with excellent taste and fresh food used to be cooked and served in the same place. These places started to become popular when they started to sell Liquor but without any liquor license. Hence the liquor was sold cheap and anyone can also take bottle of his choice and have it there by paying a bottle fee. But all these changed since the Govt. was loosing Excise duty and asked them to take proper Liquor license. That also they felt that the Govt. was against them. There was mismatch with the Chinese sought after lifestyle for big money, flashy cars, costly watches, etc. etc. but their surrounding population was different and only labours used to get very less salaries for doing a hazardous job and they used to get sick after prolonged use of chemicals constantly. Calcuttan's were always very friendly to them and they enjoyed their food and still now they do. I had many school and college batch mates from the community who have otherwise done extremely well since they integrated into Indian community. Problem was with the people who wanted to remain Chinese only. With only education in Chinese schools never learnt the local language and made a Fortress for themselves and remained cocooned in it. Mr. Jimmy the blogger here never ventured out the other part of Kolkata. The Bowbazar and Central Calcutta Chinese population who were in Carpentry and wood works, there were famous Chinese Dentists. The Sunday Morning Chinese Breakfast on Phears Lane, Lalbazar is so famous a lot of people from other parts of India come to visit it. The Chinese school - Ling Liang High School opened in 1949 is still now running well with a lot of students (www.linglianghighschool.com/). Chinese came to India and specifically West Bengal in 1800's as Salt Factory Workers and many stayed back. Mr. Jimmy Your research was very poor or I must say you wanted to say what you said for reasons best known to you.
Exactly Chinese community came here Just to earn money 🤑 I don't know why these people remained very isolated in the city like Kolkata may be they think of them as a superior creature or something. 🤣 Intentionally the didn't tried to indianise themselves and still they are complaining.
exactly if you decide not to gel with country's culture then you cannot grow its not just india its in every part of world . the research by Jimmy is extremely poor and misleading , that was something i was not expecting from him , a small suggestion to jimmy please visit China and document how exactly Indian's are living there you'll be surprised.
Indian myself thanks for making this didn't know we had a chinese community of hakka people, i can see the pain in their eyes, thank you for documenting this
Seeing this video was quite shocking cause I used to study in a well known school in Kolkata very close to Chinatown. There were a lot of kids from the Chinese community in my school as well as kids from other asian communities as well. I had no idea how fast things I have changed since I remember them celebrating Chinese New year in big crowds and overall their population at that time didn't seem that less. And I left that place only in 2021 so it's really hard to believe how much things have changed
My suspicion is most that left China are the educated and community minded that's why they are willing to build school and continue to donate to all community events. My grandparents left China but I think they always wanted to go back when it "reopens" but it took so many decades and the kids ended up settled already. My granddad was uni educated in HK and his dad was a Judge with generations of wealth and education. My mum's side are also educated and in business. They all are one of the founders in Chinese schools and Chinese social projects in Malaysia. The community funding continues in my dad's generation and I am now also donating money to local causes. My family was believed in helping others, building a good community and we have a good family name / reputation in our town. We were not the super rich but willingly contributed a big portion of our income. But recently I met some Chinese who are not educated or even thinking education is important, just like to party and live day by day then borrow money from anyone they can.... that is a different kind of Chinese that I've never met in my life. 🤦♂️ I have always been a proud Chinese... didn't know stupid Chinese existed.
As an Indian, you have been with us through our difficult period, now we are developing. Things could be much better in 30 years. Faith and hope are everything. Don't lose that faith in ourselves. This generation is different.
@@abhi739 well yeah, but India for now isnt really a good country to live in, its getting better, as it is a really high growing economy, but for now the IDH is pretty low
Friend sent me this video. Interesting to see this. I’m a Canadian born Hakka Chinese. My parents were born in kolkata. Like the interviewees described my grand father owned a restaurant and leather tannery. He was taken to a concentration camp during the sino Indian boarder war where he died. That’s when my dad’s side left. Definitely sad to see some of these ppl feeling trapped.
Oh my goodness! That's crazy. My parents migrated to Australia and my grandparents where in Malaysia before. I didn't know Indians took Chinese there for what? For being Chinese? These barbarians always say China have no human rights? That's why to me, they all say "most Chinese left" but didn't want to say much. Must be something very terrible that they can't even say? Everyone knows Malaysian government don't treat Chinese well as we are discriminate. But people are not afraid to say that.... Anyway to be honest, India is a ST country, I'm glad your family left. I've know many Indians, most I know are what my grandparents use to call them "snakes", very deceiving and always slithering around. Be careful they are always plotting. For example, when Indians moved their business a few doors away, my parents joked that their business will somehow catch fire and claim insurance. I always thought it was a joke. But, after 3 yrs, it happened! And they claimed huge insurance. The fire spread to our business and half burned our stock and even lots of family photos, clothing etc, all gone. Also many other incidences... makes me think they really are what my grandparents says they are.
Oh no. sorry to hear that! My mom was born in Calcutta too! Grandparents used to work there. May be my mom knows your parents :) ! My grandma used to teach at local Chinese School. See my post on the top sharing their story. My grandpa's best friend was the principal of the Chinese school, he was taken by the police in the middle of the night and sent to China/India boarder remote area and left to die, was later saved.. He died few years later at Chinese labor camp during Cultural revolution. crazy time.
@@nancyn1106 , wow indeed crazy time. You're Chinese, Indians want you to died, you're Chinese also taken by new government 😓. Both sides of My grandparents were in Malaysia I think since around 1930s, 40s, no issues. No one taking them to any camps. Both side family I believe wealthy in China. My dad's side, my great grandad was a Judge and family has lots of land. Mum's side her grandma has those lotus feet never said they're rich but judging by their mind set and skills having built up lots of businesses and estates in Malaysian makes me think that is what they've always done back in China. But they all went to Malaysia with very little. Built businesses like grocery shops and rubber plantation, houses etc from ground up. Dad's side I thought it's all just all talk they were rich saying granddad went to uni in HK and that's why he spoke English. But turned out the China government asked my dads siblings who ever want some family land can have a small parcel back. Some uncles went back to China was given some land back but not all the family land. Just some. They all know which areas used to be ours as my grandad took everyone back to see his hometown. We're all settled in Australia now.
@@steph4922 Thank you for sharing! It's amazing how our older generations faced so many challenges, unfair treatments and struggles at these difficult times yet able to come out strong, build successful businesses and set up better lives for the next generation. I can't imagine immigrating to a new country with no money and probably not even speaking the language, while having a whole family to support. It's amazing that your grandparents did so well. We need to tell these brave family stories to the next generation, so they will be inspired when they face difficult times. Our lives today are way too comfortable and we are becoming less resilient. My grandma used tell her WWII and Culture Revolution stories, and said to me that no matter how hard life it is, it will pass. Just stay alive, you can live with more and live with little. She also told me to travel a lot and put my needs first. She sure saw the world, her last international trip was at age 93.
Chinese are the greatest businessmen irrespective where they are. Wherever they are, they brought prosperity to the country. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippine, Cambodia, Loas still need the Chinese to run its economy. Why India did not grow as fast because the Indian Government ill treated the Chinese and many left India. Otherwise India will have many middle class, similar to other Asian Countries. It is a pity that India miss the opportunity otherwise India would develop at a more faster pace.
I see many Indians in China, most are teachers and they are so highly respected there. In fact, Chinese people actually treat Indians better than their own, a stark contrast to the discrimination and hate crimes experienced by Chinese in India. Indians in China will never have to worry about safety or hate crimes.
ikr, my uncle teaches yoga there and he tells us about it but please give India a chance as India is still largely uneducated and uncivil society due to a major part of it being historically cut from society i.e. the ones that were outcasts. however bad it sounds to an Indian but is a truth
@@user-mc8wg6qq3bI think one of the main reasons for the difference is the news media in India constantly pushes anti-China news that stir up resentment but on the other hand, Chinese media don't like to push hate on any group of people
Generalization is a very bad thing, my friend. Just because you heard some Chinese people being discriminated in India doesn't mean every Chinese is being discriminated against in India. And please, just please stop being on a moral high ground as if there are no vices of ill-treatment against other races in China. There have been a lot of footage of African community being discriminated against in Guangzhou in China. Also Chinese call us Indians using a very vile, racist word called 阿三. That doesn't mean everyone is a bad apple. So that is why please don't generalize people especially considering yourself from a moral high ground.
@@ArghyadeepPal I never heard of the word 阿三. There is no such word or saying in Chinese and I just confirmed with a few Chinese people. I'm not sure what kind of propaganda media you read that from. Also the Africans being mistreated videos were completely taken out of context or cherry picked. Many of those videos of Chinese mistreating Africans in China were actually debunked including by French fact check website that despite it being anti-China bias outlet. For example, a video that happened years ago in Malaysia where a Black person robbing a store were beaten up by Malaysians were propagated on Western media as an African student getting beaten up by a group of Chinese. Another video showed Chinese restaurant owners fighting against black diners, which was actually under self defense and happened in New York, not in China. Bro, understand what you see in the media is gov funded propaganda. Talk to "real" people who actually been there with "real" experiences.
@@ArghyadeepPal You can learn about the origin of this nickname. Of course, most Chinese people later knew that “阿三” came from the comedy movie "Westward Journey"（大话西游）
As an Indian we love our Chinese community. I had a junior Chinese girl in my college. I never felt like I was talking to a foreigner. Please try to stay in India if you can. ❤❤❤❤
Another fun fact, there is a small Chinese community in Assam, in the northeast of India. They mainly came due to the tea industry. Now, they too have mostly vanished, few remain but they number in the 50s...
I'm Indonesian. In the past, Chinese people also experienced a lot of discrimination. But now it seems like we are all used to living side by side. They contribute a lot to the Indonesian economy. They have a great work ethic and perseverance. Indonesians must emulate them. Indonesia is also the country with the largest overseas Chinese population. I hope that in the future they can live peacefully in Indonesia. Lots of love to my Chinese Indonesian friends! From Toba, North Sumatra.
In Canada, it’s not easy to prosper as well. Cost of living is high. Many Hakka Chinese open restaurants to promote the Hakka food, but that is a difficult business too.
I am from west bengal really felt sorry that they have to face discrimination...i hope india as a country would grow fast, due to huge population and reservation to certain category people a lot of people are living abroad
Bro as Indian im learning lot about communities who are living in India recently got to know Africans were living in India and now suddenly after watching your video got to know Chinese brothers are also living in India Never expected and thank you for making this video dont know why but I felt sad watching video.
I am a Calcuttan and I miss the Chinese communities who were surrounding us during my childhood. Especially the Chinese shoe shops in Bentink street and Kolutola. I miss the wonderful Chinese restaurants in China town Tangra where we used to visit to taste pork in childhood, hiding from parents. Sometimes I think China should have not grown so fast that I lost my old Chinese friends, almost all of them are migrated to fast growing China and Singapore. Had we could match there growth to retain them with us!😢
Nobody mentioned that they left to China. They might have left to Canada , Australia or Taiwan. We know how many people are leaving china to foreign countries. Easy to judge the book by its cover. But only if you open it, you may know the truth.
why our chinese over sea so chicken , we have been chasing killing by local people even we born on the same land why not stand together to fight back and ask for help around chinese community to buy weapons to self defence instead running away and finally got killed , i hope 1 day our chinese can stand for ourself and fight back from racist
The answer that the boy gave at the end is actually very similar to the pledge that indian school students learn everyday, Most people including many indians dont know indian is not an ethnicity it is a nationality anyone with indian citizenship is indian reagrdless of ethinicity we are all equal infront of the law but unfornutely past governments have been unfair to many communities including this one . Sad to see this community decline.
Bro past govts have been unfair. Past govts are the reasons so many communities are still living together. The current govt only speaks for one community. Thats too its fake.
The same is true of Christians in India. They are trying to flee India especially after Modi and the BJP RSS.. They don't feel safe in India anymore! The Parsis have left, the Jews have left. Always talk about a religious State with the majority religion and nonsense talk like that from Bharkts. No one is happy any more. Modi has destroyed the feeling of the country with his BJP RSS!
@@zhipeichen It's just indoctrination from school and society. There's no critical thinking if you haven't lived long enough to think and to experience the world.
If you want to live in atriocatic Chinese government ! You can ! Mao zedon killed 20 million Chinese lol ! Started war against india ! Whereas india praised them as brothers given veto power and permanent sit in UNSC ! Lol ! Snakes
I am a South Indian, in my village many people migrated to USA for better life style. Same way Chinese are doing from theirs hime land . There is no discrimination, only for High standard living life style
I never know there's a Chinese community in india. It's really sad to see. Common people shouldn't suffer because of political issues. Personally i respect Chinese people. I know there are some political issues but still Chinese people are good people.
Being from Kolkata, the thought that a day will come when we will see in news "last chinese in India's Chinatown" is really saddening. But it's understandable why they are leaving as well.
It is very sad that hakka Chinese community suffered alots difficulty but if we see the context of west Bengal state also suffered lots of riot and govt conflicts lot of things .. which is indescribable but now slowly slowly things are changing..maybe everything will be good one day. And i also hope indian chinese community condition will be improved and best wishes for them whom settle in abroad i wish aap hamesha khush rhe😊😊
14:13 I am Singaporean Chinese. I encourage this young man to come to Singapore to live and work. It is very easy for Indian nationals to get work permit in Singapore due to the CECA Agreement with India. We have a population of 75% Chinese and 10% Indian. You will adapt easily in Singapore. English is the lingua franca here. And Tamil (southern India language) is an official language. Ancestors of Chinese in Singapore came from Southern Chinese provinces. So we have Hakka Chinese too, from Fujian and Guangdong provinces. They settled here 100 years ago. Also the little boy at the tail end of the video, come Singapore to study. 😊 i went to New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Mumbai in 2011, free and easy. I was never harmed. It was fun. Egg Biryani and jai, the tea, was delicious. Love India, and will be back next time, to the South.
thanks for your video share.I think it's so struggling mention for them.Anyway the sino-india relationship was drop down so fast,I hope them be safe and health.
I love the last young boy statement about how he feels in India. This is called an education makes anybody wise. And god bless all Indians living in India.
