N.W.

Perhaps if it wasn't for the Brits that forced Opium (Opium War 1+2) and took concessions in China/HK, eventually leading to hunger, war and civil war, none of the Chinese would've arrived here. Cause and effect bitches.

Remember, there's a reason why the worlds best antiques are at the British Royal Museam.

This is a subject we need Bill Barley to comment on.

From my understanding a lot of Chinese came to the west coast of their own free will to hunt for GOLD and then returned to China. Some stayed behind, made a new life here. The ones that returned RICH caused further waves of immigrants seeking fortune in foreign lands, hence head tax.

Now we have Mexican coming to pick crops in the interior, who live in squalor conditions so they can make some money to better there life back home. I wonder if they pay some type of TAX ? Hmmm….

Perhaps if the Chinese community that stayed here, and didn't recently immigrate because of HK returning to communist China, cared about the building site or grave site, wouldn't they have said something about it ? Perhaps they moved on and accepted change.

With these 'Charged' topics racism can always be perceived, but Canada has always been a looting ground for foreign countries.

N.W.

Regurgitating the past and pointing the finger of blame does nothing positive.

People today should not be made to feel guilty about the past.

And by the way, Mr. Chu are your people so perfect that they haven't committed atrocities that they should feel guilty for?

It seems that only white European people are forever

criticized for the past.

Everyone else is perfect, is that what you are trying to say? Better get over it.

A disgusted New Westminster resident, tired of being attacked because I am a white man.

I have read and enjoyed your article about Mr. Chu and have only this to say. And this is not a racist comment. I find it highly objectional that an immigrant like Mr Chu comes to Canada and criticizes our country. Mr. Chu should realize that Canada was built by and advanced by white European people.

If oriental people who have lived here all their lives and feel slighted then let them speak out against any mistreatment that may have occured in the past.

I am a white male of Scottish descent and born in Calgary and I have absolutely no guilt at all about what happened in the past. It seems that no media outlet anywhere in this country recognizes the contributions white people have made to this country and instead focuses on the bad things that have happened that no white person today need feel guilty for.

If Mr. Chu doesn`t like Canadian history he can go back to Hong Kong. Let the people here who have experienced discrimination speak out.

Let`s hear something POSITIVE about white European

people and our contributions that make Canada the good country it is.

I am fed up with all the negativity

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Let's be honest and truthful here though. Our society has come a long way in terms of racism and the behaviours that existed so long ago. There's only so many amends that can be made, formal apologies made, and the like. But contrary to what some people believe can happen in New Westminster, you can't turn back the clock and right the wrong. You can apologize on behalf of those that came before us, that built the railway using cheap Chinese and Irish labour at the time, and that did the things they did in the various communities throughout what is know Greater Vancouver. But how far do we as a society go? I believe that an apology and recognition of past wrongs is the right way to go, perhaps along with a memorial in a revered place in New West such as Queens Park or maybe even friendship gardens? We should never forget our passed history. At the same time, the world moves forward, people become more tolerant and people move on.