Time Out Hong Kong
Hong Kong Profiles

Dr Lisa Lim
Founder of LinguisticMinorities.hk
http://www.english.hku.hk/linguisticminorities-hk

It’s quite a statement for a twenty-something Hongkonger to ‘not have ever engaged with anyone from an ethnic minority background’. But that’s exactly what associate professor of English and coordinator of the Language and Communication Programme at HKU, Dr Lisa Lim, says is true of many students she encounters. We may be living in ‘Asia’s World City’, but there are persistent fears that Hong Kong’s language and culture continues to homogenise – alienating and denigrating the very thing that gives us our national identity.

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