Talk:Chinese Canadians in Greater Vancouver

Lead

Time to start expanding the lead? Viriditas (talk) 02:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I'll be happy to do that! WhisperToMe (talk) 06:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Airline service

I restored the bits about airline service, for two reasons:

• The SFU paper by cites an unnamed airline executive who stated that immigration was one of the reasons for expanding air service into Vancouver
  • "Airline executive: When the movement of people, including immigrants, tourists, and students between Canada and China intensified, the number of air passengers grew dramatically.[...]Vancouver has a reputation as one of the most livable cities in the world with a large immigrant population from China and other Asian nations. Airlines have come to this market to take advantage of growing transportation of people and high-value commodity goods like seafood and wine."
• The Vice president of Sichuan Airlines, Zhang Huiyu cites immigration as one of the reasons for flights going to the country:
  • "(This route) it's not only important to Sichuan Airlines, it's also important to all the people from the western region of China. Because all the flights originate from Chengdu in the western part of China to Shenyang, which is northeast, it will provide a gateway to the students, immigrants and travelers to Canada."

I suspect Cathay Pacific began its operations in Vancouver long before 1992, and I would like to get info on the Vancouver operations of the Taiwanese airlines, China Airlines and EVA Air. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

POV/ESSAY/SYNTH/TRIVIA tags added

This article has all the very same problems that the Chinese Canadians in British Columbia article has, and the reasons are laid out on the talkpage there; they have been ignored by the shepherding editor here who is unconcerned with and doesn't care about WP:NPOV which is policy. Numerous guidelines are violated, I won't waste my breath; but somewhere along teh way someone who does not share the biased views and scholastic premises that the OWN author of this article has laid out, and will recognize the incredibly bad English composition, and the use of pasting together cherrypicked items to build SYNTH/POV...so very obvious. "Honestly I think these tags are more than deserved", to paraphrase the edit comment of their illicit removal from the CCinBC article by the sole author here who successfully lobbied to have me blocked so he was not 'interfered with'. What has been interfered with is BC history with a very clear ethnopolitical bias and soapbox agenda.

I am leaving Wikipedia; I will not waste my efforts any longer for a place where travesty like this was mollycoddled and nurtured in violations of several guidelines and also of the NPOV policy'. this article is a political tract rife with synthesis and cherrypicked sources, and distortions of others. tiresome and juvenile and a good demonstration of why Wikipedia is not real encyclopedia but more and more a compilation of jejune essays - and outright propaganda.Skookum1 (talk) 02:03, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Goodbye. There is nothing worse than a drive-by tagger. Viriditas (talk) 02:23, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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"Chinese"

While this article is titled "Chinese Canadians in Greater Vancouver", the article problematically conflates Chinese Canadians, Chinese ethnicity, and Chinese immigration when they are not all the same. Not everyone of Chinese descent or birth in Metro Vancouver is Chinese Canadian, which specifically refers to Canadians of Chinese descent/ethnicity. Many Chinese immigrants are recent immigrants who have not yet received their citizenship or are temporary expatriates. In addition, not every immigrant from China would be considered "ethnically Chinese" and not every ethnic Chinese immigrant came from China (ex. immigrants from Hong Kong while it was still UK territory comprise a significant proportion of ethnic Chinese in Metro Vancouver). Furthermore, many Chinese Canadians are born and raised in Canada and have no connection to China aside from ancestry. I think this is something that the article fails to mention and needs to clarify further.Dankmemes2 (talk) 06:23, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

@Dankmemes2: From the sources I have read, "Chinese Canadians" is often defined to include people of Han ancestry who may be from the Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Southeast Asia. For example, Many Petals of the Lotus: Five Asian Buddhist Communities in Toronto includes Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Southeast Asian-origin residents with Han ancestry as being "Chinese". The book was published in 1999, two years after the handover, and therefore would include people who immigrated from British Hong Kong. I meant for the title to be broad, to include recent immigrants (who are not yet Canadian citizens but intend to immigrate) and Canadian citizens of distant Chinese ancestry, as well as points in between. The Chinese version of the article uses "华裔" (Huayi, ethnic Chinese), which is my intention with the title here.

While it is true that Canada has received non-Han immigration from the PRC, it seems they are usually described in terms of their ethnicity: for example Tibetan Canadians.

WhisperToMe (talk) 07:59, 5 March 2022 (UTC)