The Editor,
Re: "Alice Wong tucks into bowl of shark fin soup," Online, Oct. 12.
The staging of what can only be called a performance by MP Alice Wong of eating shark fin soup is an outrage to the community. That she would do this in front of only the Chinese media and at David Chung's restaurant is a double insult that was as deliberate as it was cynical.
Wong claimed shark fin imports can only be allowed if legal, meaning of non-endangered species, but couldn't identify the species of the shark fin she ate.
David Chung, who owns Jade Restaurant, also couldn't identify it and won't supply his fins to be tested. Therefore, she's participating in a dubious and suspicious activity.
With her support for eating shark fin soup and her couldn't-care-less attitude of where the fins came from, Wong has fired the first shot in a cultural war that will have bitter repercussions for a long time.
This type of conflict has caused Europe much turmoil. It has, in fact, led many European leaders to declare multiculturalism a failure because, instead of all people uniting for love of the country, they were at war with each other to have their cultural practices predominant to others.
It remains to be seen where Wong will go from here, but she is proving to be a representative for her own ethnic community and not for all of her constituents, as promised.
Alan Halliday Richmond
