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Richmond residents outraged because they can't read Chinese signs
I can't read this Chinese character-misusing sign either, but I'm not asking city hall to make up for my lack of language skills.
You know how some people will complain if there's anybody speaking Chinese (they usually can't tell the difference between Cantonese and Mandarin) on the bus? Well, there's apparently 1,000 of these "totally not racist" people living in Richmond.
Local residents Kerry Starchuk and Ann Merdinyan have managed to gather that many signatures on a petition asking Richmond council to take action that would limit the amount of Chinese characters on signs in the city. According to the Richmond News, the pair plan to make a presentation to city hall on Monday (March 18).
For Starchuk, it's all purportedly about "increasing racial harmony". This from someone who reportedly refuses to use the northern part of No. 3 Road because of all the Chinese signs there.
Indeed, the following quote from Starchuk is so ironic it's almost funny:
If this is our Canadian identity, then it’s not very inclusive is it?
This is not cultural harmony because I have no idea what these signs, advertising and the real estate papers are saying.
We value Richmond and we value our Canadian identity and I hope that comes across with our presentation.
Starchuk told the Richmond News she's approached councillors before and didn't get anywhere. They want Richmond to require 70 percent of any sign in the city to carry English and/or French (similar to the Aberdeen Centre's private policy for its stores).
Let's hope city council says 再见 to Starchuk and Merdinyan and sends them away disappointed.
Your typical asian arrogance and aggresiveness is obvious in your sarcastic remarks. To say nothing of the obvious strain that the asian influx has placed on Canada's resources.
What you are obviously unaware of is how the historical sense of fairness of native born canadians is confronted with the in-your-face attitudes of rich spoiled asian students who are loud and obnoxious and don't give a crap about the country or rules of the land they study in regardless of where that happens to be.
30 years ago there was very little in the way of asian gangs, bullies, and the total disregard for littering, spitting in public, and all the other quaint cultural issues that we can thank most of our asian and eurasian immigrants for introducing us to.
Granted many injustices were perpetrated on my asian ancestors who worked on the CPR at the turn of the 20th century, but so too did most European immigrants suffer especially Ukranians under the corrupt conglomerates and bosses of that time.
Lastly, all the sabre-rattling that China has been doing lately with countries and cultures it doesn't approve of or wants to simply assimilate (Yugurs, Tibetans, Japanese, etc...) doesn't make canadians any more tolerant of asians blowing off the need to learn english and act according to the customs of this country.
My grand parents and my wife's parents (Ukranian) both learned English immediately upon arriving in Canada, this is something that our most recent arrivals could care-less about accomplishing.
My wife was recently confronted by an asian (Chinese-Mandarin) woman who swore at her, called her stupid, and claimed that there was nothing she could say to stop her or her friends, because as she put it; "...we are taking over just like we have everywhere else. We have the money, you don't, you're stupid Canadians."
So, is it really any wonder that all the horn honking, angry yelling immigrants have made a bad name for us all?
Not really, the law of the land is English, the custom of the land is english, so, make the signs readable, stop selling shark fins, get with it.
Would she go there and do any business there anyways?
If it was a Asian hair salon, I don't think she would get her hair done there.
An important part of 'our Canadian identity' is knowing what that is. We chose the 'mosaic' rather than the 'melting pot' model in immigration. Has no-one ever visited Toronto and seen the plethora of ethinc neighbourhoods and taken some pride it's ultimate cohesion? What these petitioners are looking for isn't 'Canadian identity' at all. What it is beckons to them just south of the 49th parallel.
I am not certain if the originators could have been inspired by the casual disregard shown by the BC Liberals to racial harmony but that likely did not help.
Wherever immigrants come from and make them selves Canadian, they mostly are supported in doing this in their own way and that policy has been in no way a failure. If, for example, Armenian or Ukranian neighbourhoods grow to a size in Richmond where they have private business serving their customers in this way, I would be quite accepting, as I suspect, would nearly everyone else.
And now people like Stephen Hui are saying that English-speaking B.C. should simply accept the encroachment of Asian languages? Really?
Take your Chinese signs to Montreal and see how far you get. In B.C., at least, we're prepared to consider multiple languages - not one above all others.
"Some Chinese person was rude to me once! So I know all 'Asians' are terrible people!"
"People talking loudly in Chinese hurts my poor little ears!"
"I saw a sign in Chinese, then I started crying blood!"
Idiots.
You're the idiot for thinking it's that simple. Siusaidh's comment is closer to the mark.
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