During the recent wave of anti-Asian sentiment in New Zealand, Chinese people's old habit of suffering in silence--which they had always considered a virtue--came to be seen as hopelessly outdated, and calls for participation in politics rang through the Chinese community.
以往中國人那套動心忍性的自我要求功夫，在這一波紐西蘭反亞裔風潮中，全過了時了﹘ ﹘參政的呼聲不斷在華社回盪。