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BaoXu 06-18-2010 02:34 PM

The largest source of Immigrants to Vancouver is the Philippines
 
http://www.vancouversun.com/3145070.bin?size=620x400

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Starting in the late 1980s, waves of immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China and India changed the ethos of this city forever. Our neighbourhoods, our skyline, the food on our collective tables, the languages on our streets, the festivals in our malls, our families and, really, how we see ourselves, all transformed.

Now, our largest source of newcomers is the Philippines, a tiny smattering of islands in Southeast Asia.

At the mom-and-pop level, you can see this dramatic change.

Take Park Village off No. 3 Road in Richmond, for example. It's your basic Asian strip mall, born during the heyday of Hong Kong migration to Vancouver. It's still home to a core group of small Chinese businesses: Great One Supermarket, Tai Hing Congee and Noodle House and, in the corner, Happy Date Restaurant, a cheap-and-cheerful Hong Kong-style diner. But the new kids on the block are Manila Express and Cargo and Ailing Mary Filipino Restaurant and Bakery.

Inside Great One Supermarket itself, there's a resident Chinese herbalist and most of the signs advertising the weekly specials are written in Chinese.

However, the most dynamic aisles, the ones that have recently changed and grown the most, are the two dedicated to a host of Filipino sauces, spices, cake mixes, baked goods and frozen packages of all sorts, from stuffed monkfish to sweet and hot longaniza sausages.

This shift is due, in part, to the way Canada has systematically changed the way it attracts newcomers. Instead of focusing solely on immigrants with high levels of education or money to invest, Ottawa and the provinces are now seeking workers with specific skills. Filipinos are stepping up to fill the demand. They have been coming to Canada via an array of newfangled federal and provincial programs.

Past waves of Filipino migration to Canada were smaller and the groups less diverse.

In the 1960s and 1970s, there was a compact set of mostly professionals, many of them fleeing martial law under the Marcos regime.

In the 1990s, Ottawa's Live-In Caregiver program drew mostly women, who typically arrived on their own for jobs as domestic caregivers for children, the elderly and disabled.

This Filipino influx is intimately connected to mainstream Canadians.

If you pick up furniture in a warehouse, grab coffee, check into a hotel, call the nanny, do renos, get an X-ray, sit on clean stadium seats, need power restored in a snowstorm or seek help for a payroll problem, you have likely met a few of these newcomers.

In total, there are about 500,000 Filipinos in Canada and more than 100,000 in B.C. As this community grows, it is becoming part of the mainstream fabric. Just as Lunar New Year and Vaisakhi are celebrated as Vancouver events, this year, for the first time, city hall has given a green light to Pinoy Fiesta 2010, a Filipino street parade, to happen along Main Street in August.

Starting today, The Vancouver Sun looks at the Filipino diaspora in B.C.
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Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/Filipino...#ixzz0rFLQCsCn
I like Filipinos. They are nice, loving people. By the way, I have never eaten Filipino food before. Where's a good place to get Filipino food?

turb0fr3ak 06-18-2010 02:41 PM

pin pin in vancouver

little ongpin in richmond

they are brothers with the same style of cooking.

Sir_Loin 06-18-2010 02:54 PM

Sweet more nurses and janitors! Pin Pin and Little Ongpin have already been mentioned but the best in Surrey is Cucina Manila, large space and good prices.

JSALES 06-18-2010 03:01 PM

Cucina Manila
Josephine's
Pin Pin
Goldilocks

InvisibleSoul 06-18-2010 03:13 PM

Hmm, yeah... seems like the janitorial team for my apartment building are all or mostly Filipinos.

XxFcukxX 06-18-2010 03:15 PM

All the phillipinos here are either working as maids/baby sitters, at tim hortons or professional dancers.

winson604 06-18-2010 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by XxFcukxX (Post 6997061)
All the phillipinos here are either working as maids/baby sitters, at tim hortons or professional dancers.

Don't forget churches chicken. They love their fried chicken just as much as black people do.

Kim Jong Un 06-18-2010 03:17 PM

They're really good at singing.

q0192837465 06-18-2010 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by XxFcukxX (Post 6997061)
All the phillipinos here are either working as maids/baby sitters, at tim hortons or professional dancers hired by chinaman.

:p

Jsunu 06-18-2010 03:20 PM

I hate threads like this because all they do is spiral into retarded stereotypes. Fuck we aren't all maids or nurses.

Valour 06-18-2010 03:23 PM

they are also entertainers:

prince - half flip
rob schneider - half flip
nicole scherzinger - part flip
batista - half flip
etc.

and my fav's

charmane star
arianny celeste

AccordCouped 06-18-2010 03:43 PM

flips are pretty dirty

PinoyDrifta 06-18-2010 03:53 PM

try aling mary's in richmond good place to eat reminds me of a place in the phils...and we are not dirty...FUKK OFF!!!!

Manic! 06-18-2010 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Valour (Post 6997076)
they are also entertainers:

prince - half flip
rob schneider - half flip
nicole scherzinger - part flip
batista - half flip
etc.

and my fav's

charmane star
arianny celeste

What about lil flip
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/...leprechaun.jpg

EmperorIS 06-18-2010 04:50 PM

i prefer flips over Indians

Manic! 06-18-2010 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by EmperorIS (Post 6997173)
i prefer flips over Indians

I prefer other people over you.

TomBox_N 06-18-2010 05:22 PM

Why do some old Indian not shower? I swear some of them stink up the whole bus
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ShadowBun 06-18-2010 05:27 PM

^ some Phili are so stinky too.

Harvey Specter 06-18-2010 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by EmperorIS (Post 6997173)
i prefer flips over Indians

Where you ass raped by a Indian? It's like every fucking thread you like bringing up Indian people. STFU already.

XxFcukxX 06-18-2010 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Jah Gekko (Post 6997237)
Where you ass raped by a Indian? It's like every fucking thread you like bringing up Indian people. STFU already.


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Harvey Specter 06-18-2010 05:40 PM

^
Lol, real reason? England can't win a game at the WC.

hal0g0dv2 06-18-2010 06:00 PM

i know alot of Philippine people and they are very smart most have there masters in something but they cant transfer it to Canada, have to take test or something, but they can in the states, they are also very hard working and hands down nicest people i have met

iwantaskyline 06-18-2010 06:11 PM

I hate their accents. I don't why but it bothers me more then any other accent.

m!chael 06-18-2010 08:36 PM

Considering that Philippine people are the best integrated immigrants in canadian society in terms of how fast they find jobs and maintain them, this is excellent news.

Razor Ramon HG 06-18-2010 11:21 PM

Every single Filipino that I've actually known whether it be a friend, classmate, or co-worker, has always been exceptionally nice. Of course, this doesn't mean other races aren't like that. Just stating my observation.


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