Richmond, B.C., considers banning Chinese-only signage

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Originally Posted by geotag277

A cursory google search reveals plenty of examples of Chinese only signs in Vancouver.



That one is from 1907, more than a century ago.

Here's another circa the 1980s:



These shots are technically Chinatown, but considering the volume and demographics of Richmond, it shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that there have been splattering of Chinese only signage in Richmond at various times in various places. "I was there decades ago and it never happened" seems a tad disingenuous. I was also there, and I seem to recall Chinese only signage in certain areas.

It seems the outage over Chinese only signs seemingly corresponded almost wholly to the ability for Chinese to buy property, and subsequently Richmond evolving from a poor, immigrant enclave that was generally undesirable to a expensive neighbourhood. Now residents want to also white wash history and pretend that Richmond has never been a Chinese enclave that never had Chinese only signage and this expansion of Chinese in Richmond must be stopped.

LOL, you should really stop trying to pretend you know anything about an area you don't live in.

Richmond was never a "poor immigrant enclave" in it's past, though it now reports some of the lowest incomes since the Mainland Chinese arrived. I assume that figure is derived from Canadian tax returns, strange, since as you pointed out they are building themselves multimillion dollar homes. One might almost think there was tax fraud going on, or money laundering....