Ostasiatische Bevölkerungsverteilung in Kanada

Why is it so high, as a British Columbian? BC in particular has long standing Chinese roots going way back to the labour for roads and railroad building during the gold rush and had a major migration of people from Hong Kong when it was given up by the British. Chinese roots in my community stretch back just as far as many of my Scottish ancestors and are a cornerstone of the community.

Canada as a whole has always had a selective and “politely racist” immigration policy. Much like we originally prioritized white Eastern Europeans because they had the skills needed to settle the prairies and were similar enough to easily integrate into our Anglo influenced culture.

East Asia is just the same. East Asian culture is actually very British in a lot of ways. Chinese, Japanese and Korean people integrate more easily into British culture than some other European groups do. In addition to that there is the largest untapped group of skilled workers in the world in prioritized countries like China and India. I’m unsure if the Philippines is being included in “East Asia” but that is another major immigrant group here, similarly the culture of the Philippines is quite friendly and not disruptive.

So we describe ourselves as a “melting pot” but we do it in a measured way, specifically with cultures that compliment and respect the British ways rather than overwhelming and contrasting our ways. As a result, we’ve become a fairly diverse nation but ethnic tensions are quite a bit lower than our neighbours and in some of the other European countries.

Recently there has been a larger tension with Indian immigration in Canada, as there is a lot more of a culture shock there. For the most part that was never much of an issue until very recently when we favoured Sikh Indian migration. Overall I’d say we are proud of our Asian heritage and there’s never been an issue with East Asian migration.

How big is the chinese part of this? Not majority, majority or clear majority