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To: tejek who wrote (86202)	1/22/2012 2:19:17 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220315

52% do not speak English as their first language. Almost 30% of the city's inhabitants are of Chinese heritage. In 1981, less than 7% of the population belonged to a visible minority group.By 2008, this proportion had grown to 51%. Other significant Asian ethnic groups in Vancouver are South Asian (mostly Punjabi, usually referred to as Indo-Canadian), Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indonesian, and Cambodians. Despite increases in Latin American immigration to Vancouver in the 1980s and 90s, recent immigration has been comparatively low, and African immigration has been similarly stagnant (3.6% and 3.3% of total immigrant population, respectively.) en.wikipedia.org

To: tejek who wrote (86202)	1/22/2012 2:29:11 PM
From: Mannie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220315

not so many Chinese flocking to Seattle, many more in Vancouver....via the old commonwealth connection. Seattle has a large Asian community, but is widely dispersed across various Asian nationalities. We are seeing a lot more foreign students from China, Vietnam, etc at Seattle area Universities.

To: tejek who wrote (86202)	1/24/2012 1:42:55 AM
From: whistler3000	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 220315

Vancouver was being colonized by wealthy mainland Chinese - many of whom likely earned proceeds dubiously or bribed PRC officials to overcome export capital controls. How else can a former PRC Army General afford a 7 million dollar UBC Endowment Lands view mansion? The theory goes, many of these people are trying to offshore money before they get caught, hence Vancouver's moniker the "Zurich of the Pacific." Furthermore, a good many leave "astronaut" families here to enjoy Canadian health and education benefits while "daddy" keeps income offshore to avoid Canadian taxes. Many locals aren't too happy about this and changes have purportedly been made to ensure illegal and laundered asian money isn't continuing to make it's way to the lower mainland (to an extent you must now show "where and how" you got the money to use to buy your residency/citizenship and that $4 million Point Grey house). From my vantage point here on the ground (I see a lot of very new immigrants every day) , Chinese immigration has slowed dramatically, now replaced with Filipino, Japanese, Eastern Europeans and Latin Americans (big influx from South America recently). What's more, it looks like the Vancouver real estate juggernaut may have finally hit a bit of a "speed bump": Scroll to bottom of this blog for latest graph: vancouvercondo.info theprovince.com