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US Passes Resolution of Regret for 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
Media release courtesy of Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Background Congresswoman Judy Chu authored House Resolution 683 to express the regret of the House of Representatives for passing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. That law prevented Chinese citizens from becoming naturalized American citizens, voting, or immigrating to the United States. It lasted for 60 years ...
65 Year Anniversary of the Repeal of Canada’s Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act
Minister Kenney Issues Statement Marking the Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism rose in the House of Commons today and made the following statement marking the anniversary of the repeal of The Chinese Immigration Act: “Mr. Speaker, ...
Will LA’s Chinatown die like Vancouver’s?
Almost two decades ago, Vancouver’s Chinatown, then a vibrant and lively place was alerted to the question of – is the addition of a new giant supermarket a good thing for the community? The answer from all the mom and pop shops, and from almost all of the people who shopped, ate, and worked in Chinatown, ...
ESPN called Jeremy Lin, a “Chink”
Some folks just don’t get it. After the recent fallout with the idiotic Superbowl Ad for GOP Senate wannabe dickwad, Pete Hoekstra – that showed a Chinese woman (in pidgin Chinglish) thanking America for spending and borrowing money from China. “We takee you jobs” It sparked a media outrage and drew criticism from fellow politicians as well as ...
DNA tests to foil the modern ‘Paper Son’
Almost a century ago, people from China who sought illegal entry into America and Canada, bought fake birth certificates. These documents, known as “Paper sons” were an effort to enable family reunifications under the then harsh discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act of the United States (1882), and of the Chinese Immigration Act of Canada (1923). Although each ...
Immigration Assistance Organizations’ funding bids “messed up”
Vancouver’s SUCCESS & PICS Losing Bids a Serious Matter Sing Tao Daily 27.12.2011 Indo Canadian Voice 31.12.2011 by Gabriel Yiu The community was shocked to hear that SUCCESS had lost all the bids for their employment assistance services for immigrants. It could spell the end of their operation of such services. A lot of discussion revolved around the abrupt resignation ...
A Christmas Carol, my Ass
The BBC produced a 3 part series on Racism a few years back. It was part of the season of programmes broadcasted on the BBC marking the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807, a landmark piece of legislation which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. The series explores the impact of racism ...
When identifying yourself as a White, helps…
Having grown up in Vancouver, many of my contemporaries saw our ethnicity as a liability. During the 60’s and 70’s, it just wasn’t cool being labelled as a “new Canadian”, or a “FOB (Fresh of the Boat)”. The stigma of being associated with being from what was then considered a third world country – China, Hong ...
Kudos to Patrick Chan for speaking the Truth
Everyone here at the UGLY Chinese Canadian is a big fan of Patrick Chan, Canada’s pride of the competitive figure skating world. Patrick Chan was born on December 31, 1990 in Ottawa, Canada. And that, my round eye friends, means Patrick is a Canadian born Chinese … a CbC. A Banana to you wise readers. Patrick is the 2011 ...
Vancouver 2011 election results… now what?
IDEA* Municipal De-Brief and Holiday Season Cheer DATE: Saturday, 17 December 2011 TIME: 7:00pm to 10:30 pm PLACE: Foo’s HO HO, 102 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC Facebook info: https://www.facebook.com/events/255408747847823/ There will be a Vancouver municipal De-brief on Saturday December 17 and you are invited. The forum will be moderated by well-known Vancouverite and PlaceSpeak founder Colleen Hardwick ...
Canada: One country, two systems
by Bill Chu Chair, Canadians For Reconciliation Society It may come as a surprise that like China, the governance in Canada is also based on the principle of “One country, two systems”. The two systems are the democratic system under which non-aboriginal Canadians are governed, and the colonial Indian Act system under which aboriginals have been governed ...
$6million Blues over ‘Gold Mountain Blues’
The Chinese-Canadian literati community has been buzzing about an upcoming book titled, “Gold Mountain Blues”, authored by an immigrant Chinese-Canadian, Zhang Ling. And the buzzing is not one of joy. It’s talk of a case of alleged plagiarism. “Shit, that’s so typical of the shit coming out of China… stealing intellectual property. Tell me something I ...
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