回复: 林俊案跟最近的中国人移民受限有关联吗?Metrotown惊现KILL ALL C
Racist graffiti at Burnaby's Metrotown touches on ‘underground’ issues: advocate
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Jeremy Nuttall, 24 hours Vancouver
Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:51:51
Metro Vancouver’s Chinese community is wondering if they’re truly welcome after a photo of racist graffiti was taken at a local mall and posted to an Internet site popular with local Chinese.
The woman who posted the photo to the site iask.ca took it inside a washroom stall in the ladies room at Metropolis at Metrotown.
“Kill all Chinese” was scrawled onto the side of the stall in what appears to be pen and captured by Monday by someone who only wants to be known as Ms. Lu due to safety concerns.
“I just wanted to ignore it,” Lu said. “The next day I decided to report it to police.”
The photo had many online telling people to call the police when they see such graffiti.
One user wondered what the Chinese community had done to deserve the morbid attack.
And it’s not the first time she’s seen such comments around the city, leading her and others online to question how welcome the Chinese actually are in Canada.
“When I came here three years ago I would also see words like, ‘go back to China.’” She said. “I have seen it on trees and on walls.”
According to Jeanne Fike of the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table, a group working toward racial harmony, despite the organization’s efforts there is still a problem with bigotry in Burnaby — it’s just not always easily visible.
“I think in Burnaby racism is more underground, it’s more subtle, it’s not as overt as it is in many other places in the world,” Fike said. “But I have no doubt it is alive and well, thank heaven we have human rights legislation.”
But Fike said the majority of residents in Burnaby would be appalled at the graffiti, and significant efforts have been made to tackle such issues, adding she wanted to apologize to the Chinese community that the “shocking” incident had happened.
“These kinds of folks (the vandals) are exactly the kind of folks we are trying to reach,” said Fike. “We have to take purposeful action in developing a more welcoming, inclusive community and we need to have a lot of cross-cultural education.”
Burnaby RCMP said such incidents are taken seriously and investigated to find out why they happened and to prevent any escalation while the graffiti is taken down as soon as possible.
The RCMP said perpetrators of such graffiti are also subject to prosecution.