Ethnic Ratios
It's a very interesting phenomenon to me here. When I was growing up in a city suburb of ON, it was predominantly a caucasian population. Chinese/Asian people were a definite minority. My home city is still very 'white' and though there are more asians living there now, there aren't really any services or authentic restaurants that would 'cater' to that population; No authentic Chinese restaurants (only a Mandarin and a Bo Chin little restaurant), few Japanese/Thai/Indian places, and no BBT place. Hamilton and Mississauga are the closest cities with more of these selections.
Here in Vancouver, it seems a different story. Before going to work this morning, I stopped by Metrotown (the only hugest shopping mall in the lower mainland...it's a fusion of Asian and Western stores, from T&T to Superstore, Optical 88 (chinese owned), Chinese Bakeries to Cinnabun, Aldo and more...it's got every possible retail store you can think of in it, even double stores at each end of the centre). Anyways, as I was walking through the mall I passed a bunch of children on what must have been a school trip. From my observation, they were private school kids (preppy uniforms) in either kindergarten or grade 1. The 2 teachers or leaders were Caucasian. There were about 15 kids - 14 Asian kids and 1 Caucasian...1. That blew me away a little. I'd never seen a class like that. I think it's more common in the GTA in ON and in Richmond BC...but it just seems so odd to me that the visible Asian minority has now become a majority by numbers in some places now. Wow. I have noticed that overall, here in Vancouver, there is more 'fusion' of ethnicities and you will find everything everywhere, not particularly in clumps or masses, but all mixed up in every area...
I wonder for myself, what I would have been like if all my peers/friends in school growing up were also Asian in a Western community. I think it would be very different. Probably more competitive...but I probably wouldn't be made fun of for being Chinese in school cuz it wouldn't be so foreign of a concept.
It's a very interesting phenomenon to me here. When I was growing up in a city suburb of ON, it was predominantly a caucasian population. Chinese/Asian people were a definite minority. My home city is still very 'white' and though there are more asians living there now, there aren't really any services or authentic restaurants that would 'cater' to that population; No authentic Chinese restaurants (only a Mandarin and a Bo Chin little restaurant), few Japanese/Thai/Indian places, and no BBT place. Hamilton and Mississauga are the closest cities with more of these selections.
Here in Vancouver, it seems a different story. Before going to work this morning, I stopped by Metrotown (the only hugest shopping mall in the lower mainland...it's a fusion of Asian and Western stores, from T&T to Superstore, Optical 88 (chinese owned), Chinese Bakeries to Cinnabun, Aldo and more...it's got every possible retail store you can think of in it, even double stores at each end of the centre). Anyways, as I was walking through the mall I passed a bunch of children on what must have been a school trip. From my observation, they were private school kids (preppy uniforms) in either kindergarten or grade 1. The 2 teachers or leaders were Caucasian. There were about 15 kids - 14 Asian kids and 1 Caucasian...1. That blew me away a little. I'd never seen a class like that. I think it's more common in the GTA in ON and in Richmond BC...but it just seems so odd to me that the visible Asian minority has now become a majority by numbers in some places now. Wow. I have noticed that overall, here in Vancouver, there is more 'fusion' of ethnicities and you will find everything everywhere, not particularly in clumps or masses, but all mixed up in every area...
I wonder for myself, what I would have been like if all my peers/friends in school growing up were also Asian in a Western community. I think it would be very different. Probably more competitive...but I probably wouldn't be made fun of for being Chinese in school cuz it wouldn't be so foreign of a concept.
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