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Vancouver chinatown: armpit of north american Chinatowns
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Welcome to Vancouver’s Chinatown! A number of our out of town readers have requested the UGLY Chinese Canadian to show a few images of Vancouver’s Chinatown. Not the usual happy, sunny touristy photos… not the pics that are gussied up before a New Year’s parade. Not the Chinatown that is sparkled up just prior to a big...
Vancouver will miss Don Lee …
It is with great sadness, to inform fellow Vancouverites the news that we’ve lost another respected son of our City. Don Lee was a former City of Vancouver Councillor, and was a current School Board Trustee. He was also a former high school teacher. Don was my old Math teacher, and kept in touch with me –...
Comfort women and Prime Ministers
Our English language often get usurped by spin doctors – masking ideas with euphemism. Or should we say… associating a new meaning to a word or phrase. This dynamic nature of words is a natural evolution of how humans interact and communicate. But sometimes, it shows how powerful the ability to spin words can...
sick and twisted minds
Vancouver’s downtown eastside. Home to some of our nation’s most impoverished and most vulnerable people. For those who are unfamiliar with our City’s armpit, the downtown eastside is located in our City’s old historic downtown business district… less than two blocks away from our City’s historic Chinatown. So what about it? Well, today is the day that a...
‘body parts in plastic bags’ + hongcouver = Dragon Boys
CBC television just aired a two part drama with elements on Chinese organized crime (on the Canadian westcoast), “Dragon Boys” this past week. The show uses this word “Triad“, and for those unfamiliar, it’s the word associated with Chinese organized Crime. More important, the show flashes back to some real life incidents I heard about...
Japan’s difficult Apology
This week marks the 69th Anniversary of the horrific “Rape of Nanking” by the Japanese Imperial Army upon the citizens of China’s then capital of Nanjing. The images shown on this post were taken last year in Vancouver, where a few thousand Canadians took their message to the streets. This week, a number of communiqués and information...
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