Cineblend, the monthly evening of SAVAN (Foundation for Audiovisual Anthropology)
The Netherlands) with dinner, film, and debate, has the theme for Wednesday, December 2:

Chinese youth: a hidden minority in the Netherlands?

The evening is organized in collaboration with the Chinese Political Integration &
Participation Fund and the Blue Water Dragon Foundation.

"Chinese feel discriminated against," the free morning newspaper Spits headlined on September 15, 2009. The main article published a number of conclusions from the graduation thesis of cultural anthropologist Lilly Witte (23). One of those conclusions was that Chinese youth, although often cited as a model group of full integration, experience themselves that they are stigmatized as Chinese and therefore not Dutch in the perception of the native population.
The second, third, and fourth generations of Dutch Chinese are successful, speak fluent Dutch, and consider the Netherlands their home. However, they also often feel caught between a rock and a hard place, between Chinese and Dutch society.

This evening, using a few film clips, we will examine the formation of perceptions.
regarding the Chinese minority, how Chinese youth experience this, and how they deal with the different cultural role patterns in Dutch and Chinese society.

The guests are:
Lilly Witte, anthropologist. Her graduation thesis on the perception of the Chinese
minority in the Netherlands and the ethnic identifications of the second generation Dutch
The Chinese caused quite a stir. Following Witte's thesis, there is intense
discussed by Chinese youth on various internet forums.

Karina Meeuwse, writer and documentary filmmaker. Author of the exceptionally good
received (also and especially within the Chinese community) book 'The House of Han, which in
Reprinted in 2010 with a current update, and maker of the documentary Oostenwind
(2000), both dealing with the history of the Chinese in the Netherlands. Meeuwse dispels the prejudice that the Chinese community is a closed bastion.

Aaron Wan, actor, singer, and screenwriter. Born in Hong Kong. Played a leading role in the award-winning children's film Het Paard van Sinterklaas by Mischa Kamp, as well as in the sequel Waar is het Paard van Sinterklaas?, which focused on a Chinese girl in the Netherlands.

The discussion is moderated by Mariska Stevens, anthropologist and director of the Blue Foundation.
Water Dragon Foundation (scientific and educational exchange with China). Specialist in the field of ethnopsychiatry, intercultural communication, and migrant communities.

For more information: www.savan.nl/cineblend, [email protected], 020 5688 520

We look forward to seeing you at this inspiring evening!



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