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forget Hongcouver, here comes Chinada
Story out of the Globe and Mail this week, about wealthy Chinese participating in real estate tours to purchase Canadian properties. Looks like déja vu all over again. Canada for Sale! Hongcouver 香哥華 Remember “Hongcouver” (earlier posting here), when the Hong Kong Chinese were snapping up real estate in Vancouver in anticipation of the fear that was...
101 ways to Wok your Mascot
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We received an interesting comment forwarded to us, regarding the Chinatown BIA (Business Implosion Association)’s new Panda mascot . According to a talking head at the BIA, the mascot concept will “save” Vancouver’s ailing Chinatown. How? Apparently, through attracting a younger audience to visit this historic community. We’ve appended our fellow citizens’ thoughts (from the Vancouver Courier...
Me, play nice? NOT
A few years back, a character by the name of Chen Weiping, played the race card in his attempts to cultivate a name for himself. It was a shameful effort of race politics at its worst. New Canadian Chen had created an ethnic based party on the platform of making Chinese an official language in Canada. Sounds fairly...
4 Niggers and a Chink (!?) owch.
Wow. That’s quite the offensive moniker isn’t it? Originally known as “Little Daddy and the Bachelors, “Four Niggers and a Chink” was the name of a Vancouver Rhythm and Blues group coined by the famous pot smoking comedian, Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong fame). Yes, it was the less politically correct days of the early...
W-5’s WTF!? … 30 years later
Thirty years ago one documentary awoke a silent community Some Chinese-Canadians who saw Campus Giveaway never forgot their reaction By Tom Hawthorn, Globe and Mail, Sep. 23, 2009 The television segment lasted about 11 minutes, an exposé of the takeover of Canadian classrooms by foreign students. A section of a university lecture hall filled with non-white faces was shown. The documentary,...
Vancouver’s vs Victoria’s Chinatown
Is smaller better? Over the past recent years, it appears that the Chinese-Canadian community in our provincial capital of Victoria seem to have their act together better than Vancouver. First, let’s look at their presence though their web portal. Vancouver’s defacto Chinese community website, the Chinese Cultural Centre, is offline again… at least the English portion of it. Vancouver’s...
Second class Chinese Canadians
Under our “What Tibet Protest?”, a lively commentary/ discussion occurred, and we felt it worthy of becoming a full Blog post: Here was the impetus from reader Umeboshi: umeboshi Says: May 5th, 2008 at 8:23 am e Whoa! In what way are you a second class citizen here, Chinktalk? ChinkTalk Says: May 5th, 2008 at 12:45 pm umeboshi – all you have...
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