There’s More Than Just Hello Kitty At The Chinatown Night Market. Um, that’s because Hello Kitty is Japanese.
Meanwhile, more proof that Beyond Robson is turning into a thinly veiled neo-con claptrap:
Awesome, the bus loads of camera-strapped Chinese tourists we’re used to spotting around Stanley Park will be moving to Shaughnessy and Point Grey. And apparently 60 per cent of 150 pre-sales for properties around the Olympic Oval in Richmond were to Asian buyers. In my calculation, that means 60 per cent of those properties will go unoccupied. Oh, I love foreign investment.
I mean, I once got burned alive on that site for daring to suggest that the transient nature of Vancouver’s ESL population makes Vancouver’s per capita misleading when it comes to cultural consumption and output. Alana is basically saying that the Real Estate bubble is the fault of Chinese tourists.
Meet the new NPA, same as the old NPA. 45 people showed up!
More on the G20. The cops let them do it. Journalist watches as police let the Black Bloc smash windows then disappear into a crowd.
The cops did it themselves. So called Black Bloc who set police car on fire pictured wearing Nike track pants!
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You’re a funny guy Sean. Hahahahaa. Make me laugh.
Im Japanese and probably associate Hello Kitty more with Chinese people.
I love the hypocrisy in your sentiments…but you can label me anything you like (labels are so fun, aren’t they?). I’m not a neo-con, neo-liberal, neo-anything, I’m just saying what I think and that’s not always based on what’s popular.
Nevertheless, several real estate blogs and articles at least suggest there’s a link between increasing prices and foreign investment. But you know the appearance of “real estate tourism” (which is what I was actually talking about) doesn’t at all suggest that foreign investment has an influence on our markets.
Is the Globe and Mail a “neo-con” newspaper? I’m not sure.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-third-wave/article1600114/
Is the Globe and Mail a neo-con newspaper? Nice red herring. No amount of your rhetoric will hide your contempt. You’ve also said, “if immigrants don’t like it here they can fuck off”. You’ve exposed your biases and called them alternative opinion; but what they are is the same measured xenophobia that we see from people like Jon Ferry, Bruce Allen, Glenn Beck, and Don Cherry. They too reach for the “not always popular” cop-out.
Obviously, you’ve pulled a Globe and Mail article about Chinese investment. Brilliant. As though I was explicitly stating that the Chinese had zero influence on creating a bubble. I’m saying that you have likened all Asian tourists (bus-loads of camera strapped Chinese) into real estate speculators and you’ve even put a statistical figure beside it, 60%, from where you admit you have absolutely no source. So don’t try and hide behind the excuse that you’re ideas are just not popular. They are offensive.
Also: http://vancouvercondo.info/2009/05/the-empty-condo-myth.html
Here is a link for you from one of your “real estate blogs”. They think that about 5.5 percent of condos are empty. So, of that 5 per cent, how many are explicity Chinese? Wow, that makes you about 99 per cent wrong.
Come on Sean, you’re the one coming at me…knowingly insinuating that I’m a racist. Sure, that’s fine. I’m a racist because I value and respect the culture of Canada and the rights of Canadian people. That is very conservative of me. I’ll admit that. I was never saying that foreign investment was the ONLY factor affecting the price of property, but it is a major factor. And when some estimates have sales at 50 per cent to Mainland Chinese buyers (for middle-class and luxury homes), that suggests a very strong impact from foreign investment. Making buying properties even further out of reach for Canadians.
It also suggests we’re not on a bubble. There is legitimate interest in our real estate markets, so prices are going to continue to rise.
AND, make up your mind Sean…if I’d said camera-strapped Asian tourists you’d be criticizing me for bundling them all together. I linked to an article about a Chinese company. Starting real estate tourism for Mainland Chinese people. So, I said “camera-strapped Chinese tourists.” Because they’re Chinese.
That’s right, we can’t talk about culture, or people, or where there from, or how their culture makes them different. We can’t make a benign little joke about Chinese people with cameras…and trust me, I know how much the Japanese and the Koreans love their cameras as well. It’s just fucking cameras man.
“We can’t make a benign little joke about Chinese people with cameras”
Uh that’s not a benign joke. I’m usually not offended in regards to things directed to my race but that’s only because I usually don’t come across people like you. To put it clear, I am chinese and your benign little joke is actually quite offensive. But since I don’t find your joke funny I should just fuck off, right? Cause that’s just like, my opinion, man.
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Ugh, another couple of red herring to fry. The point, again, is not that Chinese ownership exists, it’s that you put a value judgement on a particular people. You then throw some figures around, which are totally anecdotal, and blame the aformentioned group. I say that it’s not that high, and you say “trust me, I know how much the Japanese and the Koreans love their cameras as well. It’s just fucking cameras man”. You make no sense and your attempt at defending yourself reveals your poor handle on logic. Again, it is reported that empty condos might make up 5.5 per cent of the market. How much of that is Chinese? The answer of course, is irrelevant because you’ve alraedy got it in your mind, that everytime you see a busload of tourists, who may or may not be from China, you assume they are responsible for the housing bubble. Again, I blame the sub prime mortgages, lack of housing endowment, condo marketing as hip/young/sexy, a lack of vision by city planners. You blame Chinese tourists. Then, simply, you say we’re not on a bubble. You say, oh poor me we can’t talk about other cultures. So which is it, are good old Canadian families being squeezed out of the market by these voracious investors? I mean, what are you really saying? It seems, as I’ve said before, you’re simply trying too hard to be funny.
Why don’t you two just get a room together and fuck your brains out. Get your attraction/aggro thing out of your systems.