3bea^ Reader:
THE FOLLOWING editorial from the Vancouver Sun is not only timely but meaty. Hence we shall present it in its entirety.
Ow of the better compliments the people of Vancouver have received recently is a complaint.
It is the protest of the city's Chinese community against slum clearance and the inevitable disappearance of old Chinatown.
Vancouver's Chinatown began as a ghetto. It was as squalid and as rigidly enforced as any medieval European Jewish segregation quarter. The white people of Vancouver insisted upon it.
They burnt down the infant Chinatown in 1886 and drove its inhabitants out into the snow.
In the early 1900s, the city's Chinese were called yellow-skinned vermin. They were harried, stoned, burned out, and their homes and shops looted in the week-long civic insurrection of 1907. A mob of 30,000 whites howled for their blood.
Segregation continued until the Second World War.
It kept the Chinese penned in their own district, barred from many occupations, working at sub-standard wages in others.
We've come a long way in 20 years.
The younger generation of Chinese live amongst us on an equal footing. They are doctors, dentists, merchants, businessmen. Often enough they live in the apartment next door.
Today, only the older people, so long penned up and put upon, feel strange in their new freedom. They fear it a little, and ask to be allowed to stay together.
It is a very gentle reproach for the past.
It is also a tribute. Chinatown is no longer a ghetto.
We have made some amends.
CHINATOWN NEWS
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