Chinese Investors Driving Up Metro Housing Prices

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Originally Posted by Hourglass

Huh. Intellectual property rights and copyright protection aside, it sounds a lot like the United States of America and the robber barons of the 19th century (and maybe the direction of Trump's America today?)...

Unfortunately most people do not differentiate between "China" and "ethnic Chinese". When you say "China", you're broad brushing 1.3 billion people. Or do you mean the CCP? Specificity is important. Otherwise it can and will be misconstrued. And a defense that says "Oh but I have a lot of ethnic Chinese friends" doesn't alter the fact that your statement creates an 'us versus them' mentality just like a certain demagogue south of the border. After all, how many people can differentiate between a HK Chinese, a Taiwanese Chinese or an overseas Chinese born in Canada, the US, Australia or Britain? If your problem is that foreign money is unfairly buying up property in Vancouver, say so. That it happens to be Mainland Chinese investors now (or Indian investors or Middke East investors in the future) is actually irrelevant.

For the record, I think the CCP is everything you describe above. On the other hand, under CCP rule, over 300 million people have been lifted out of abject poverty within a couple of generations.

"Unfortunately most people do not differentiate between "China" and "ethnic Chinese".

There's an inherent racism in that statement. Can you tell the background of a Caucasian just from looking at them? Do you lump Korean and Japanese immigrants under the "looking like Chinese" label? Why is it that some posters find an attack on certain citizens of the Peoples Republic of China as an attack on all ethnically Chinese? Why is it acceptable to continue labeling visible minorities as "Hyphenated-Canadians"? What you seek is to wall off criticism of property purchases by citizens of the PRC under the guise that it's "racist". If it were Russians buying the property I doubt you or others would be seeking to shut down the criticism using a similar argument.