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Chinese Professor: Hong Kong people are Dogs This disturbing video clip was forwarded to us to share with our readers. Beijing University ...
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When identifying yourself as a White, helps… Having grown up in Vancouver, many of my contemporaries saw our ethnicity as a ...
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Richmond BC, the Chinese integration issue One of our readers forwarded to us, a 'letter to the Editor'. The letter was ...
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Reason #77 why I love Vancouver by David It's been a very beautiful summer here on the westcoast. With the gorgeous ...
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Vancouver Chinatown: ARMPIT of north american Chinatowns Welcome to Vancouver's Chinatown? A number of our out of town readers have requested the ...
More Information...Vancouver’s Miss Chinatown, a look back
In time for the Chinese New Year’s celebration, a lot of attention from the English language media is placed on Vancouver’s Chinese and the communities that make up the moniker, “Chinese-Canadians”. Sure, there’s still all the in-fighting from the many Chinese-Canadian factions… but generally at this time of year, there is a truce. In the bad old ...
Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!
Message from Vancouver city Councillor, Raymond Louie: It is Lunar New Year today and I wanted to send each of you a special wish for health, happiness and great prosperity in the year of the Dragon. According to the Chinese calendar, today is the start of year 4709 and legend has it that in ancient times, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him ...
Chinese New Year reminder… it’s about Family!
There’s one wonderful thing about Chinese New Years… okay, Lunar New Years, and that’s the emphasis on family. Family get together is what it’s all about. Yes, we know that cultures from across our planet have celebrations around family and family get togethers. We only wanted to reflect on the meaning to us bananas growing up ...
Shuffling Lion dance (oh…it’s a Tiger!)
Nice to see tradition flow with the times. Here’s something completely different… a Lion dance… no a Tiger Dance to a new beat!
Help shape Vancouver’s Future!
One of the UGLY Chinese Canadian’s friends is launching an important citizens’ based initiative. It is the third incarnation of a survey, “Urban Futures“, for and from the citizens of Vancouver. The first survey took place almost 40 years ago, and we’re at it again! The survey will query matters and opinions important to the city’s residents. The ...
University of BC’s Chinese factions… Ai Yah!!!
Interesting article from the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) student newspaper, the Ubyssey. Here is the article, reposted in full, with special thanks to the Ubyssey. (link to original article, here) by Harriet Ho January 10, 2012 China is UBC’s largest source of international students and one third of our student population is of Chinese descent. How do student organizations ...
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