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jvalmer
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| Canada's great if you know how to stay off the grid. Living homeless in Vancouver and Toronto is easy. |
Do you mean living at missions? Homeless tends to imply either that or living on the street. |
Vancouver is probably the only western city in the world where you can see so many homeless Chinese. |
Where at, in Richmond? I didn't notice many, but then I didn't look either.
They obviously are not getting in via an investment visa. How are they getting into the country and ending up homeless? |
He's probably confusing an ethnic Chinese with a North American aboriginal. Easy to confuse the two, since both have ancestors from NE Asia. |
I am talking about homeless Chinese-(Canadians) living in the Downtown Eastside, not aboriginals.
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View from the cities
Asia and the Middle East was the most common place of birth for racialized immigrants living in poverty in all three cities, but the proportions varied widely:
Montreal – 47% of poor racialized immigrants were born in Asia and the Middle East
Toronto – 74%
Vancouver – 91%.
http://www.esdc.gc.ca/eng/communities/reports/poverty_profile/images/figure2-eng.jpg |
When you say homeless, I think some guy on the street begging for money, or booze, sleeping in the alley.
But, yes a lot of Chinese-Canadians are living in poverty. But I've never encountered an Asian bum in North America yet, they're pretty rare like the unicorn. Almost mythical. Although I do see old Chinese grannies search garbage cans for pop cans. But those grannies go back to some kind of physical house at night. |
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ChrisPK
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jvalmer
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So there are 10 homeless Chinese in the whole of the metro-Vancouver area? Not saying they don't exist, but you made it sound like there are tons of them. So much that it would be noticeable.
Still near mythical status if you ask me. Still have yet to encounter one in the Americas personally. It's either black, white, hispanic, or native.
Although I do encounter quite a few punk kids that are Asians that need a slap to the face. |
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Redcap
Joined: 03 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| ChrisPK wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| ChrisPK wrote: |
| young_clinton wrote: |
| PureLuck wrote: |
| Canada's great if you know how to stay off the grid. Living homeless in Vancouver and Toronto is easy. |
Do you mean living at missions? Homeless tends to imply either that or living on the street. |
Vancouver is probably the only western city in the world where you can see so many homeless Chinese. |
Where at, in Richmond? I didn't notice many, but then I didn't look either.
They obviously are not getting in via an investment visa. How are they getting into the country and ending up homeless? |
He's probably confusing an ethnic Chinese with a North American aboriginal. Easy to confuse the two, since both have ancestors from NE Asia. |
I am talking about homeless Chinese-(Canadians) living in the Downtown Eastside, not aboriginals.
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View from the cities
Asia and the Middle East was the most common place of birth for racialized immigrants living in poverty in all three cities, but the proportions varied widely:
Montreal – 47% of poor racialized immigrants were born in Asia and the Middle East
Toronto – 74%
Vancouver – 91%.
http://www.esdc.gc.ca/eng/communities/reports/poverty_profile/images/figure2-eng.jpg |
There is a disconnect between what you are claiming ("Vancouver is probably the only city in the western world where you can see so many homeless Chinese.") and the statistics you are providing.
The numbers that you sourced from the 2006 Census deal with poverty, NOT homelessness. These are two separate issues.
While there may indeed be many ethic Chinese living on the poverty line in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, they are under-represented in homeless statistics. The GREATER Vancouver Regional District undertook a comprehensive survey among the homeless in 2008. Only 3 % of the respondents were identified as ethnic Chinese.
Statistics aside, it should be clearly evident to anyone who has visited Vancouver that Caucasians and Aboriginals comprise the majority of the homelessness. |
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ChrisPK
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Redcap
Joined: 03 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:43 am Post subject: |
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Yes, The City of Vancouver initially attempted to evict the tenants. It later granted the society representing the tenants a 6 month reprieve in which to come up with a viable restoration plan. In actuality, the residents were not truly homeless, as they were back in their building in short order. Besides, the City had already lined up temporary accomodation for the residents, had the building demolition proceeded.
That said, using this story as proof that there is a substantial homelessness issue among ethnic Chinese in Vancouver is rather feeble. |
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Redcap
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:59 am Post subject: |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6-1oo-b3Ds
See this entire documentary (1-7), and you'll see many Chinese. |
Not surprising, given the area in which the video was shot is in close proximity to Chinatown. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| ChrisPK wrote: |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6-1oo-b3Ds
See this entire documentary (1-7), and you'll see many Chinese. |
Wondering if you saw it? I saw the whole thing, but no Chinese homeless people. Like to pinpoint them?
I saw maybe one possibly Chinese lady standing in some food handout place. But still not really indicative of being homeless. And another Asian looking man in a red shirt sitting at a table. But, wasn't sure if he was just s | | |
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