Government in Sydney quietly changed the name of the Chinese New year Celebration to the Lunar New year Celebration! Suspected of reinstating other ethnic communities, protest!
"New year`s Day, or, for the Chinese people, the Spring Festival is the most important holiday all the year round. When the Spring Festival is big, people who work abroad will drag their families home and directly result in the largest population migration in the contemporary era.
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For Australia, which has a large number of Asian immigrants, Sydney also has a New year festival in this place, and every year during the Chinese New year, Sydney will hold a New year parade! Let the Chinese feel friendly!
Yet Sydney`s government`s renaming campaign for this year`s Spring Festival Parade has drawn complaints from ethnic groups:
The parade on Sydney`s government website and official event sites formerly known as the Chinese New Year (Chinese New year has quietly changed its name to: Lunar Festival (Chinese New year).
Perhaps some people do not understand the difference between changing the name, is to change "China" into "Lunar calendar" it! In fact, this involves the aspirations of other Asian communities:
For example, Korea also has the tradition of Spring Festival.
Vietnam, for example, also celebrates the Spring Festival and the New year, so the question is: neither the Koreans nor the Vietnamese are Chinese. How can a traditional festival become China`s Day? Isn`t that discrimination against other ethnic groups?!
However, according to Sydney City Merchants President (Haymarket Chamber of Commerce) Sydney Chinese New year Celebration Advisory Panel member Mr. Chen Jianqing told journalist that Sydney City government only two weeks ago "told" that he changed his name, he did not think it was "consulting."
Mr. Chen said that he personally did not object to the change of name, but he did not think it was appropriate for Sydney`s government to be so "hasty" because many Chinese associations were opposed to the change of name!
In fact, as early as four years ago, Sydney City government launched an online survey on whether the "Chinese New year celebrations" should be renamed "Lunar New year celebrations", the result was a strong opposition from the Chinese community eventually shelved the plan.
This year, the city`s government quietly changed its name, and other communities such as South Korea and Vietnam certainly welcomed it.
So, what`s your reaction, then?
