Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

George:

I live in an area where there are many immigrants from Hong Kong and China. 
When they view their children who were born and grew up here, they see 
“Chinese” people. Even many of the children in this day of multiculturalism 
and political correctness see themselves as “Chinese” even though many don’t 
speak Chinese or speak it very poorly. Sometimes they are refered to as 
ABC—American Born Chinese—as acknowledgement to birth place. But in previous 
times when people tended to gather in groups, communities could maintain 
their ethnic, social and linguistic identities over a few generations, even 
after immigrating to a different country. Many of the older immigrants never 
needed to learn English for that very reason.

My grandparents, who were brought here by their parents, grew up in 
non-English speaking communities.

So to give a statement that sounds similar to the phrase in question, “The 
Chinese born in this land are called ABCs.”

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>

> On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:04:57 -0500 "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
> writes:
> > Peter:
> > 
> > I think the reference, HNWLDYM B)RC indicates that these “men of 
> > Gath” were not born in Gath, rather born somewhere else. But right 
> > now I can’t prove it.
> > 
> > Karl W. Randolph.
> > 
> _______________
> 
> That makes about as much sense as to say that "the citizens of California
> who were born in the United States" indicates that these citizens were
> born in Maine.  That makes no sense whatsoever.
> 
> george
> gfsomsel

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