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03-19-2010, 02:05 PM
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#126 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by bengy  does this mean we'll have less FOBs from Taiwan wanting to come here? THE OUTRAGE!!!! | TWANGERS!
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03-19-2010, 02:39 PM
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#127 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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03-19-2010, 03:01 PM
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#128 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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Originally Posted by AE98 you people are idiots...From Vancouver Sun...This incident has turned into a public outrage in the Taiwanese media and alot of Chinese cities. It's time canada do something to change its questionable practices before canada's public image continue to deteriorate. Cut the privillege / right bs..when you get a visitor who comes to ur country legally, you treat her with respect and hospitality. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Tai...424/story.html | Can you at least use SOME proper grammar and correct spelling if you're going to come on a local site to bash "us people" in our language, which by the way, is ENGLISH.
Why are you speaking on behalf of "alot of chinese cities" if you're from Taiwan? Last I checked, there are no "Chinese" cities in Taiwan, those are in CHINA. I've had many friends and relatives visit from Hong Kong and China and I can't personally say any of them have had such "questionable practices" implied on them. Maybe because they don't give Canadian Customs reasons to suspect them of alterior motive than they say.
If you haven't heard already, you are douche bag of the month and I hope you don't expect respect or hospitality from "us people" if you ever come to OUR country.
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03-19-2010, 03:02 PM
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#129 | | racing & tech mod.
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looks like AE98 is making a lot of new friends. LOL.
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03-19-2010, 03:24 PM
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#130 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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Ummm, so a translator was used but it was not useful to her? Sound like she was baby.
And obivously you don't questions the Enforcement officer if you don't answer their questions first. Quote: |
Lee, who speaks Mandarin, said a translator was brought in to help with communications, but she said the conversation went only one way, with her own questions to the English-speaking border agents going ignored.
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03-19-2010, 04:08 PM
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#131 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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why do we give a shit anyways? we (most of us) live here already so who gives a fuck? it is about time the CBSA and Immigration tighten up on everything. our laws are too lax.
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03-19-2010, 09:35 PM
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#132 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Originally Posted by AE98 Canadians are only nice to their american and english masters. When a person from a non-english country comes to canada, eg: poland, they just kill him. Real nice...this just shows how barbaric the canadian pratice is. | Hi I'm from Poland my family immigrated here in 89 and we've had no problems since and everything i remember since then in terms of people being nice everyone's been real nice. What happened to Robert could of happened to anyone things happen people make mistakes don't think you're special or this women is special because she got denied access to enter Canada. Life is life move on.
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03-20-2010, 12:08 AM
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03-20-2010, 03:43 AM
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#134 | | Proud to be called a RS Regular!
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well I guess theres something we can learn from this incident.
In East Asia the custom staff are usually nice and warm. If you are a resident they frp, time to time will greet you with "welcome home", and if you are a visitor they will say welcome to Japan/Korea/Taiwan etc...and some even will have a smile on their face.
so custom staff is really like customer serivce there, whereas the custom here are plain assholes who think ur a criminal. Theres no wonder this Ms.Lee thought she was treated badly and asks for compensation..but I think theres definitely something our custom can improve on, especially their attitude. For sure their job is hard, but a little smile on the face wouldnt hurt.
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03-20-2010, 06:07 AM
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#135 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Any country that thinks you are up to some shit is not going to be polite behind closed doors, who cares how friendly everyone is out in the open. Welcome to Taiwan my ass, wait till they think you have drugs in your underwear and see how nice they are when your getting strip searched. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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03-20-2010, 07:57 AM
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#136 | | I wish I was where I was when I wished I was here
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Originally Posted by DDauge well I guess theres something we can learn from this incident.
In East Asia the custom staff are usually nice and warm. If you are a resident they frp, time to time will greet you with "welcome home", and if you are a visitor they will say welcome to Japan/Korea/Taiwan etc...and some even will have a smile on their face.
so custom staff is really like customer serivce there, whereas the custom here are plain assholes who think ur a criminal. Theres no wonder this Ms.Lee thought she was treated badly and asks for compensation..but I think theres definitely something our custom can improve on, especially their attitude. For sure their job is hard, but a little smile on the face wouldnt hurt. | I've had different experiences.
It must be cause some of you aren't being polite to the CBSA or something, everytime I fly back I ALWAYS get greeted with a "Welcome Home" from them. I maintain eye contact, answer too all of their questions respectfully with "sir" or "ma'am" at the end of each sentence, and I don't try to strike a conversation with them.
I was actually born in Taiwan, but immigrated here in 97 and do not hold a Taiwan passport anymore. Their Customs on the other hand, were dicks, the way they talked and the way they handled things felt like all they had to do was finish elementary school. Even being polite to them doesn't help. But I don't whine and tell CTV or Global BC that I was treated unfairly because when you go to another country you have to respect the way of how they deal with things, and normally tourists get pushed around a bit, and that's the price we take for traveling.
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03-20-2010, 01:03 PM
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#137 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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actually for once i agree with ddauge
in my experiences CBSA aren't a friendly bunch, but whatever they are just doing their job.
I felt the Asian customs are generally more welcoming.
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03-20-2010, 01:19 PM
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#138 | | Banned (ABWS)
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They don't have to be nice to do their job properly.
Also, if you're nice to them, they will be nice to you.
Went to pick up a package yesterday from Blaine. Came back and had customs do a quick search on my car for drugs, but didn't charge me duty for my package.
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03-20-2010, 02:10 PM
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#139 | | Banned By Establishment
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Originally Posted by DDauge well I guess theres something we can learn from this incident.
In East Asia the custom staff are usually nice and warm. If you are a resident they frp, time to time will greet you with "welcome home", and if you are a visitor they will say welcome to Japan/Korea/Taiwan etc...and some even will have a smile on their face. | NOT THEY DONT. I have TRAVELLED to these places and they are ALL SERIOUS as shit.
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03-20-2010, 02:48 PM
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#140 | | Pull Out Towing. Women rescued for free.
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I remember flying to NYC and they had guards armed with machine guns. They were not smiling and they were definately not polite, but I wasn't gonna argue with them.
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03-20-2010, 02:54 PM
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Travel the world.
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"Have you been to any other countries in the last 14 days? Any plants, animal products, etc.?"
Come to Canada, the first question asked:
"Are you bringing any goods we can charge you tax or duty on?"
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03-20-2010, 03:23 PM
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#142 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Alatar Travel the world.
Any other country, the first question asked:
"Have you been to any other countries in the last 14 days? Any plants, animal products, etc.?"
Come to Canada, the first question asked:
"Are you bringing any goods we can charge you tax or duty on?" | that is so true lol
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03-20-2010, 04:30 PM
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#143 | | Proud to be called a RS Regular!
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Originally Posted by hchang I've had different experiences.
It must be cause some of you aren't being polite to the CBSA or something, everytime I fly back I ALWAYS get greeted with a "Welcome Home" from them. I maintain eye contact, answer too all of their questions respectfully with "sir" or "ma'am" at the end of each sentence, and I don't try to strike a conversation with them.
I was actually born in Taiwan, but immigrated here in 97 and do not hold a Taiwan passport anymore. Their Customs on the other hand, were dicks, the way they talked and the way they handled things felt like all they had to do was finish elementary school. Even being polite to them doesn't help. But I don't whine and tell CTV or Global BC that I was treated unfairly because when you go to another country you have to respect the way of how they deal with things, and normally tourists get pushed around a bit, and that's the price we take for traveling. |
well, at least you dont get Taiwanese custom asking you "why are you bringing 10 pieces of underwear into Taiwan" and get deported back to canada and wasted your plane ticket...you would probably whine all the way to the ministry of foreign affairs too.
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03-20-2010, 07:35 PM
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#144 | | I wish I was where I was when I wished I was here
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Originally Posted by DDauge well, at least you dont get Taiwanese custom asking you "why are you bringing 10 pieces of underwear into Taiwan" and get deported back to canada and wasted your plane ticket...you would probably whine all the way to the ministry of foreign affairs too. | That's because I don't bring an unreasonable amount of underwear to change.
How do you not see its suspicious that some lady is bringing back more underwear than she needs? It's fair for the CBSA to deny admittance to our country because as I've mentioned in my earlier posts there has been two or three other cases of taiwanese women coming to Canada and jumping plane to be a prostitute or masseuse.
If I wasted a plane ticket, yes for sure I'd be pissed as shit, but if their Customs has had cases of young people coming from Canada to cause trouble and refuse my admittance cause they think I have gang affiliations or whatever, I'll understand. What can I possibly accomplish by complaining to foreign affairs? I got more of a chance receiving an apology from a brick wall than I do with Foreign Affairs.
Not trying to say Taiwan's a bad country or anything... but do you honestly think people from Canada would go jump plane in Taiwan? No, it's the other way around cause if you look around you, Vancouver has a lot of Chinese/Hong Kong/Taiwan immigrants, whereas in Taiwan, there are little to none Canadian/US immigrants.
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03-20-2010, 10:50 PM
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#145 | | The Lone Wanderator
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Originally Posted by DDauge well I guess theres something we can learn from this incident.
In East Asia the custom staff are usually nice and warm. If you are a resident they frp, time to time will greet you with "welcome home", and if you are a visitor they will say welcome to Japan/Korea/Taiwan etc...and some even will have a smile on their face.
so custom staff is really like customer serivce there, whereas the custom here are plain assholes who think ur a criminal. Theres no wonder this Ms.Lee thought she was treated badly and asks for compensation..but I think theres definitely something our custom can improve on, especially their attitude. For sure their job is hard, but a little smile on the face wouldnt hurt. | I'm gonna have to agree with Majin on this one; when I went to Korea last summer, it was not all smiles and happiness. I got a serious face, and some annoyed tsk-tsk-ing because I couldn't speak Korean. It was the height of the swine flu paranoia and I was checked over several times. Not just for symptoms either; where are you going to live, what number can we reach you at, how long are you staying for, etc etc.
During my stay, they called my friend (who travelled at the same time as me) ONCE to find out if she had symptoms. They called to check on me four times.
Do I get my panties in a bunch saying they were discriminatory? Fuck no. You know what would have happened if I had gotten even the slightest fever? I would have been quarantined. What would have happened if I'd complained? Nothing.
Does swine flu matter now? Was there any crazy wave of death? Nope. If I had been quarantined and there had been no big deal, what would have happened if I had raised a stink? Nothing. Because they were cautious and wanted to make sure shit didn't go down.
Welcome to the job of border security.
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03-21-2010, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by AE98 you people are idiots...From Vancouver Sun...This incident has turned into a public outrage in the Taiwanese media and alot of Chinese cities. It's time canada do something to change its questionable practices before canada's public image continue to deteriorate. Cut the privillege / right bs..when you get a visitor who comes to ur country legally, you treat her with respect and hospitality. |
Who gives a shit? Taiwan isn't a real country anyway. Shes lucky we accepted her passport.
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03-21-2010, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by El Bastardo Who gives a shit? Taiwan isn't a real country anyway. Shes lucky we accepted her passport. |
this fake country you speak of has the biggest industry for all our electronics... computers, tvs, iphones.......
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03-21-2010, 01:40 PM
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#148 | | The Lone Wanderator
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Originally Posted by adog this fake country you speak of has the biggest industry for all our electronics... computers, tvs, iphones....... | Industry or no, it's acknowledged by only a fraction of the world. If Taiwanese people want to travel to China, they have to give up their ROC Passports and get modified PRC ones.
Tell the rest of the world Taiwan's a real country. A real place of residence? Absolutely. Country? Hmm...so where's the Taiwanese consulate in Canada?  | |
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03-21-2010, 01:47 PM
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#149 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Western nations don't want to recognize taiwan as a nation because they don't want to challenge PRC's political influence
If taiwan isn't a country it would have political and financial ties and connection to Beijing.
anyways that's not really related to the topic.
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03-21-2010, 01:56 PM
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#150 | | The Lone Wanderator
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero Western nations don't want to recognize taiwan as a nation because they don't want to challenge PRC's political influence
If taiwan isn't a country it would have political and financial ties and connection to Beijing.
anyways that's not really related to the topic. | Neither is the fact that Canadian customs bows down to our American and British masters.
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