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Is there a place on the planet that doesn't have a "dark history" I'd be willing to bet that " @8 D7 S: G4 E% l( C2 t S
p+ a9 s( m" I: ^4 G0 U, B1 NCanada is one of the few countries that keeps beating itself up over it's.
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These buyers would have become stinking rich off the the poor people of china would they? Can
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" F s8 z8 \2 y' N( C6 jstick it to people but can't take it?
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The dark history and division was caused by CP Rail: The Vancouver anti-Chinese riots of
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, d' q2 l V1 H- E8 M6 w0 u1886, were prompted by the engagement of cheap Chinese labour by the Canadian Pacific Railway * x3 d3 t1 l' }4 A8 N- n& u: p
1 e) o4 E& U$ @0 r6 c* R2 Lto clear Vancouver's West End of large Douglas fir trees and stumps, passing over the ( ?; [7 g5 L5 r9 }$ L9 {
' l6 U- W( J; j# X$ [( qthousands of unemployed men from the rest of Canada who had arrived looking for work.* l3 S+ X4 l+ H
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Yes this happened however the world is a lot smaller and different place today than it was 90 8 W3 p6 s5 P7 x6 C
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years ago. Before 1930 Whites where not allowed to do business in China and had to act with a , l+ y2 M- I* P9 h
2 f3 b0 m+ \+ f* P' \Chinese agent. Oh I forgot it is still that way today. Japan people who have Korean or any
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P% e5 t6 C8 F) t' g- Mother ancestry with both parents being Japanese born in Japan can not be citizens.Oh wait its 7 {; ?% k: o: g1 u( i; O4 @
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still that way today.
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so I guess the people who where discriminated should be compensated what was the purpose of this story look back to history in China India or Africa it was the same over there just try to move into a village today in Africa as for Canada it is going on right now and it sure isn't the white man doing the discriminating cheers
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The Chinese immigrants 200 years ago came as laborers with no money and therefore no power; unlike today.% N+ U) E9 Z% Y" F. \5 r& |
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When I lived in Vancouver area decades ago there were entire sections of the city and Greater Vancouver Area where NO English signage could be found anymore. Billboards and newspaper ads in Chinese dialect only. The minorities were very close to becoming majorities and they did not care a bit about the "Canadian" culture. Neither "official" language could be heard on the streets. It seemed there was a determination to turn the Lower Mainland into whatever country they came from. |
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