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Originally Posted by chowhou
You have a right to do business in whatever language you want in this country. The official languages have to do with federal institutions, not random realtors.  Chinese-language-only realtors are missing out on the English speaking market, and English-language-only realtors are missing out on the Mandarin/Cantonese/Korean/Japanese/etc. markets. The best realtor speaks every language at a fluent business level but that's a bit unreasonable no?
There's a huge demographic of Chinese Canadians in Vancouver, I don't know what to say. I think all of you might be surprised how much local (not foreign) money there is in the local (not foreign) Chinese community. |
You must have missed my point, or misread my comment (which is weird considering the fact that you actually quoted it), but given the fact that we're involved in a discussion about the importance of using a language that hopefully everyone understands or as many people as possible will understand, and given the likelihood that misunderstandings or miscomprehensions might happen, I'll help you out by re-quoting myself and bolding the relevant parts:-
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"It doesn't really matter whether they're the majority of buyers or even the majority demorgaphic in Burnaby.
The original commentor had a point, in that Canada's official languages being English and French, the people putting up the ads should make the effort to ensure there's at least a translation in one of the official languages, even if you believe that most of your buyers will be Asian or Chinese origin.
I have no issue with them being in Chinese (or Korean or Japanese or whatever demographic you're primarily marketing to).
But they should ideally be dual language ads with an French or English translation (or ideally both)."
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I never said they don't have a right to do so and post those ads in Chinese only if they want, and I literally said I have no issue with them doing so.
As far as I know, British Columbia, unlike in Quebec, for example, does not mandate English (and/or French) usage for official communications outside of government business and government related information.
But like the rest of Canada, you would think it behooves the people who live here, or who want to live here to be considerate of their fellow Canadians and residents, even if you may not consider them worth your effort, or time or translation efforts.
It's about courtesy - something that Canadians love to pride themselves in having in abundance and which you'd think that people who immigrate here and want to integrate into the society would want take to heart.
And yes, there's a lot of wealth in the Chinese Canadian community; we all know that.
But isn't it a little bit presumptious to think that ONLY Chinese Canadians or Chinese immigrants will be the ones that want to buy into these condos or have the means to do so?
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