Australian Reacts To 'The Most Asian City In North America/Canada!'
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- Welcome to Australian Reacts, where an Australian reacts to all types of videos from around the world! In this video we check out 'The Most Asian City In North America/Canada!' and I see how they measure up against real knowledge from a local of "the land down-under". Overall we get to see a glimpse of what this incredible country has to offer and have some laughs along the way!
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Richmond (and Vancouver) became the preferred locale for Hong Kong emigration after the handover to China due a few key reasons. It was Pacific Rim just like Hong Kong, it was North America (historically the world's biggest immigration magnet), and Canada was Commonwealth just like Hong Kong. It goes a long way in explaining why so many people from the Indian sub-continent go to Canada.
Thanks. You explained it better than I could have. The only problem early on was, of course, absentee landholders, people who bought property to off-shore their money and didn't move to Vancouver. I hope that issue has been minimized in the last few years.
And before the Panama Canal was dug, it was easier to travel from London to Hong Kong by taking the train across Canada and then sailing across the Northern Pacific and Atlantic rather than going around Cape Horn.
There was a large Chinese community before the take down of Hongkong. Some were from the 1800s that worked on the railway. Gold Fields. Local China towns . In the 1950s and 1960 s some from just outside of Hongkong known as Toysun or the village speaking Cantonese came and opened corner stores and restaurants. Richmond and Vancouver in general now has more Mandarin speaking Chinese along with the Cantonese
Another part of metro Vancouver has an extremely large Punjabi population , the area is called Surrey , Over all the whole metro Vancouver areas population is over half Asian , Chinese, Filipino , Korean, Punjabi , over 1 million ,
I'm a Surreyite. How you doin?
Interesting foods fact the California roll was invented in Vancouver
Richmond is located right next to Vancouver and encompasses Vancouver International Airport. That area has had a Chinese community since the building of the trans-continental railroad in the late 1800’s and that may have been one of the reasons that it attracted so many ex-pats from Hong Kong. Vancouver is sometimes (and sometimes not too kindly) referred to as Hong-couver. If you watch more of the Canadian Heritage Minutes there’s one that deals with the Chinese labourers on the railroads.
Sir John A brought over Chinese migrants to build the railroad and, after the railroad was built, Sir John A put a head tax on the Chinese migrants so that they could not bring their families over. Canada officially apologized for the head tax in 2006.
The Asian predominance in Richmond, and the Greater Vancouver area more generally, is not a recent phenomenon. There's always been a strong Chinese influence in the area, but it increased substantially after Expo '86 in Vancouver and, then, reall picked up speed from 1997 onwards because China resumed control over Hong Kong from the UK and many wealthy Hong Kong residents fled to the Vancouver area. Richmond is the suburb where Vancouver International Airport is located, so it makes sense that many new Chinese immigrants simply stayed close to where they first arrived. It's the same in the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto International Airport is located in the suburb of Malton/Mississauga, and that immediate area is where the largest Indian/Pakistani community in Canada.
The city of Toronto has always had a large population of Chinese immigrants going back to the 1800's. I live in Markham, Ontario where the current Hong Kong Chinese & South Korean population is roughtly 51%. It used to be a place full of Montreal Jews who fled Quebec & its nonsense in the 70's & early 80's. As the Montrealers retired through the 90's, they sold their houses to the newcomers who offered megabucks for them. I have no problems having them as neighbours as they are all educated people who engage with all the non-Asian communities here.
The largest Indian/Pakistani community is in Brampton, not Mississauga. You probably know that but your wording in your last sentence is incorrect.
Vancouver International Airport is based in Richmond, so it's actually the first place you'll see when you land in Canada before you make your way into downtown Vancouver.
Lived in Burnaby 50 yrs could tell you whole story of the explosive development all across the area .
Richmond is the first place I lived when I moved to the lower mainland from Prince George. I recommend Steveston village just off of Richmond. It's an amazing little fishing community with amazing restaurants and markets. Garry Point park is worth a visit there. In summer the skies are blocked out by kites.
I lived in Richmond for a year a while ago. It's very Asian and the food is awesome but it's also very suburban. But it's clean, well run and rich. The name itself "Rich"mond attracted tons of people from Taiwan and Hong Kong. It also had many south Asian people that farm cranberries and other fruit in the agricultural industries. Richmond has been starting to become Asian back in the 90's prior to the hand over of Hong Kong. Interesting note is that the first McDonalds in Canada was on #3 Road in Richmond. It's still there and it's a flagship of their restaurants.
The Old Chinatown in Vancouver can't expand, and the younger generations want homes outside of the ghetto.
@@michaeldowson6988 Plus the old Chinatown is gentrifying quickly as well.
If you want to talk about south Asian population? Then you would find more of them in surrey or in North delta which is where iam from!
I knew this would be Richmond, BC.
I was a teen wrestling in Montreal in China town, arcades and diners everywhere, one of most memorable times growing up, close communities 🙂
I grew up in Richmond and starting in the late 80s lots of Asian immigrants began living here. I love all the amazing food choices, its kinda like going to Asia when you're in some of the malls. Saves me $$$ on plane tickets
Love your reactions. There's something about the speed of your speech. You never seem at loss for words.
There have long been Chinese, Japanese and East Indian residents living in the Vancouver area (Richmond is a suburb of Vancouver).
But as Nick noted, a lot of Hong Kong residents went to Vancouver in the 80s and 90s because they were worried about what would happen after Hong Kong went under CCP control.
They often chose Canada because we were allowing a lot of immigrants from Asia to diversify Canada, and it was easier to go to Vancouver than New York or San Francisco because Canada and Hong Kong were part of the Commonwealth. Hong Kong immigrants spoke English and typically brought a lot of money and bought homes, started businesses, etc., so they were highly sought after by the government back then.
Pineapple pizza also known as Hawaiin pizza was create here in Canada, in a town just 20 mins from me (Chatham Ontario). Lol
North America (Canada and US) attracts the most immigrants. There are communities of different cultures all around Canada and US. Yuba City in California is majority rich Punjabi sikhs who own peach farms, brampton in Canada is primarily indians, markham in canada is chinese, kitchener area has so many germans, whistler and ski resorts in Canada have huge population of Australians on work holiday visa and so on
Good to see Richmond hasn't changed
British Columbia developed separately from most of Canada. The Rockies kept it separated, so it was settled from the west, the Chinese were here from the start of colonization and helped build the country.
Hong Kong became a British colony after the Opium wars of the 1800s. The arrangement was formalized in 1898 when Britain obtained a 99 year lease on the property (at the time, 99 years was the longest legal term). So for the next 99 years, Hong Kong grew and prospered, but in the 1980s and 90s, the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 loomed. The people of Hong Kong were among the richest in Asia largely due to the free trading nature of the city and it was unclear how this would be affected under communist rule. So to hedge their bets, many of the richest folk in Hong Kong looked elsewhere in the world for an safe refuge to emigrate to in case the Chinese communists ruined Hong Kong.
Vancouver was popular for many reasons.
1) there was already a strong and thriving Chinese population in Vancouver
2) Vancouver is on the Pacific Rim, making it easy to travel to and from Hong Kong
3) Immigration to Canada was pretty easy, especially if you are rich since Canada has an entrepreneur class of immigrant
4) Education standards are very high in Canada in general and Vancouver has 2 world class universities. This was important since a common strategy was to send the kids over to study at Vancouver institutes while the parents stayed in Hong Kong making money. The kids would get a good education, learn English, and prepare the way for the family should the need arise.
5) Canada was and is much more open to immigration in general, with less anti immigrant sentiment than many other countries (less, not none).
Many of the early immigrants bought houses in Vancouver. And as these were some of the richest families in Hong Kong, many built mansions. Overall, this drove up housing prices in Vancouver sky high (part of the reason anti immigrant sentiment is non zero). Many of the next wave could not afford Vancouver and instead settled in neighboring cities, especially Richmond. As it happened, the destruction of Hong Kong by the communists did not occur (in 1997 at least) so many of the first wave never left Hong Kong and recalled their kids. This has left a glut of empty and abandoned mansions in Vancouver. It's very weird and a real problem.
www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/06/24/in-one-of-west-vancouvers-nicest-neighbourhoods-nobodys-home-except-dust-bunnies-and-raccoons.html
Welcome to my humble home/Vancouver suburb of Richmond, BC!
When I lived in Vancouver, I was told that Richmond has such a high Asian population because the name sounds like ‘Rich Man’ and they were seeking prosperity in their new country.
It was a result of the opium wars- mainly Britain against China- that saw Hong Kong along other smaller ports being ceded by the Chinese. It was an agreement in which the British promised to return it to the Chinese. Not too different from what happened with the Panama Canal where the USA did most of the work to build it and Panama agreed that the it be an American territory until 1999.
Oh, Aussies shouldn't worry. SYDNEY is now colloquially known as NEW SHANGHAI. Melbourne aka New Nanjing, Perth aka New Xian, Brisbane is New Qingdao.... Tasmania is New Hainan...!! It's Terra Nullius Mk 2
Now do Brampton, Ontario! It went from being an average Canadian city to basically being a Punjab satellite in just 12 or so years. I also have no idea what drives these concentrated migration patterns, but it's interesting how quickly they can happen.
u mean bramladesh dont u? lmao..also home to the highest car insurance rates in canada due to the south asian predilection towards speeding red light running accident fraud and general shiite south asian driving habits..they also dont give a toss about waste management hence the shiite load of garbage everywhere..bramladesh is a large dump which i am sure makes the south asians feel at home... thanku my punjabi friends
Love sweet and sour shrimp and soya sauce.
Have you heard of Gung Haggis Fat Choy - a combination Robbie Burns day Chinese New Years. It has haggis filled spring rolls in plum sauce and the haggis rap.
NHL hockey games in Canada have been called in English, French, Chinese (think Cantonese), Punjabi and Cree.
I knew eh, I'm starving now. Fortunately I live across the street from, you guessed it, a Chinese restaurant
There are several reasons why Richmond and other areas in Canada have become Asian immigration magnets. It goes back way before 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back over to China. There was a lot of migration from China after WW2 and during, but even before that, tens of thousands, came to Canada for work on the rail road and for the gold rush. Even before that, ship captains would higher Asians carpenters to build ships. There are times of booming migration and times of almost little migration, it all depended on the migration polices of the government at the time. For example, from 1979 to 1980, Canada accepted well over 60,000 people from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, they were called "the boat people" (I still remember that to this day, they were not treated all that well). Many settled in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, where there were already established Asian communities where they could be sponsored by individuals, businesses and churches. By 1985, well over 100,000 "boat people" settled in Canada. By 1997, those "boat people" were well settled and were able to help others who wanted to come to Canada. The Asian communities did not grow over night, it happed over 150yr time span.
It is human nature to move to an area where you will feel accepted and be amongst your own culture. As stated above, migration policies make a huge difference. You cant just moved to Canada and say hello, I want to live here now. You have to prove you can take care of yourself, or prove someone you know in Canada is going to sponsor you. Someone needs to legally vouch and pay your costs for the first two years you live here, that person, or organization will pay for you living needs. Asians moving to Richmond are being sponsored by people living in Richmond. Despite Canada's reputation for being a polite country, there is still a lot of racism in Canada and even worse in the past, it only made sense to move to communities that accepted you and your culture.
I left Richmond in the 80s,moved to Vancouver until 1990 and moved to eastern B.C. Richmond did not look like this then, but B.C. has always had a lot of Asians (especially Chinese. I miss the city so much, and the diversity. Best food of the world in the world be it Indian, Thai, Greek, Italian or abundance of different cultural foods. The best I saw was a place selling Ukaranian/Indian fusion!
I've been to Aberdeen Centre many times. Yeah, Richmond is basically a Chinese city.
When Hong Kong was taken over by mainland China there was a huge number of people who moved to Canada.
No Richmond has been a city sized "Chinatown" for ever. The main influx I would say was when Hong Kong reverted back to Chinese control. It is a pretty cool place.
Pineapple Pizza originated in Canada at a small town pizzeria in Ontario. The owner of that pizzeria was a Greek-Canadian who happened to love Chinese food, especially the dishes that combined sweet, sour and meatiness. He decided he wanted to have that combination on his pizzas, and they caught on. So pineapple pizza is considered a home-grown Canadian thing. That's why he contrasted it with the Pineapple Bun, introduced more recently by Chinese immigrants. Since then, the world has divided on ideological lines of pro and anti pineapple pizza. When Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson was elected President of Iceland, he jokingly said his first legislative priority was to ban pineapple on pizza. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a diplomatic letter defending the honour of Canada's beloved pizza topping. However, Canadians themselves can be fiercely divided on this issue. I'm pro pineapple ---- my ideal pizza is double cheese, bacon, ham, mushrooms, hot peppers, smoked oysters, and plenty of pineapple in big chunks.
Canada is now 18% Asian. Australia is also becoming more Asian with 17% of its population.
Toronto has the second highest population of Asian immigrants in Canada...and it's quite a lot...but I don't think ti's even close to what the Vancouver area has.
If you go to any major cities in Canada, this is what it's like, #i'm white and love all the culture here, love the claw machine, I use to play baseball there
They were also CRUCIAL to building the entire railway, which was then taken credit for by the white politicians. After finishing the railway through the Rockies, a lot of the remaining Asian population settled in the western area after being compensated VERY LITTLE for the work they did.
🙏 Everyone, lots of races and cultures contributed to the formation of modern Canada.
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Fantasy and grade school understanding. Lots of poor indigents worked the railways. Did the politicians take credit because they were politicians or because they were white? More of the 'immigrants built this nation' claptrap. Hey everyone, WHITE's created Canada, sorry, not sorry.
Try the most Australian city in North America… whistler
Richmond B.C.
just try pin slaw
How can you be Australian and not know the colonial history of Hong Kong? Less talking... More reading
He's young yet.
That is what we are for.
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How can anybody listen to your videos? You never stop talking!!
this is why I refuse to visit Vancouver.