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06-18-2010, 02:34 PM
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#1 | | Banned (ABWS)
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| The largest source of Immigrants to Vancouver is the Philippines
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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?
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06-18-2010, 02:41 PM
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#2 | | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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pin pin in vancouver
little ongpin in richmond
they are brothers with the same style of cooking.
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06-18-2010, 02:54 PM
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#3 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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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.
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06-18-2010, 03:01 PM
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#4 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Cucina Manila
Josephine's
Pin Pin
Goldilocks
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06-18-2010, 03:13 PM
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#5 | | The RS Freebie guru
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Hmm, yeah... seems like the janitorial team for my apartment building are all or mostly Filipinos.
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06-18-2010, 03:15 PM
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#6 | | I STILL don't get it
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All the phillipinos here are either working as maids/baby sitters, at tim hortons or professional dancers.
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06-18-2010, 03:17 PM
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#7 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by XxFcukxX  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.
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06-18-2010, 03:17 PM
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They're really good at singing.
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06-18-2010, 03:20 PM
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#9 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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Originally Posted by XxFcukxX All the phillipinos here are either working as maids/baby sitters, at tim hortons or professional dancers hired by chinaman. | 
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06-18-2010, 03:20 PM
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#10 | | Da Vinci's real masterpiece: The Mona Diesel
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I hate threads like this because all they do is spiral into retarded stereotypes. Fuck we aren't all maids or nurses.
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06-18-2010, 03:23 PM
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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
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06-18-2010, 03:43 PM
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#12 | | No Duplicate Accounts Allowed
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flips are pretty dirty
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06-18-2010, 03:53 PM
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#13 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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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!!!!
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06-18-2010, 04:28 PM
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#14 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by Valour 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 
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06-18-2010, 04:50 PM
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#15 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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i prefer flips over Indians
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06-18-2010, 04:56 PM
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#16 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by EmperorIS i prefer flips over Indians | I prefer other people over you.
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06-18-2010, 05:22 PM
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#17 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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Why do some old Indian not shower? I swear some of them stink up the whole bus Posted via RS Mobile | |
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06-18-2010, 05:27 PM
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^ some Phili are so stinky too.
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06-18-2010, 05:30 PM
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#19 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Originally Posted by EmperorIS 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.
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06-18-2010, 05:38 PM
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#20 | | I STILL don't get it
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Originally Posted by Jah Gekko 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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06-18-2010, 05:40 PM
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#21 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Lol, real reason? England can't win a game at the WC.
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06-18-2010, 06:00 PM
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#22 | | RS Operative (G)
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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
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06-18-2010, 06:11 PM
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#23 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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I hate their accents. I don't why but it bothers me more then any other accent.
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06-18-2010, 08:36 PM
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#24 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
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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.
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06-18-2010, 11:21 PM
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#25 | | Say! Say! Say!
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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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