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The Hong Kong Chinese Community - Online Term Paper

The Hong Kong Chinese Community

is an affluent, educated, and swelling
population in the Greater Toronto Area. The enigma is why they have only made
marginal inroads into the political arena.
Olivia Chow, a Metro councilor representing the Downtown ward says "this
community has potential to be very powerful...it's nowhere near its potential."
Chow is the highest-profile Hong Kong expatriate to win elected office in the
GTA. Others include Tam Goosen, Soo Wong, Carrie Cheng, and Peter Lam.
Many are convinced that the reason is because Hong Kong "is a colonial
place where they had no say in government whatsoever." "In Hong Kong, there's
never been any democratic procedure until a few years ago." "Chinese ...

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North America and
Canada is very different from what they saw of politics in Hong Kong and China."
Dr. Joseph Wong, whose community activism has earned him the Order of
Canada, thinks that despite changes in Chinese attitudes, fear is still an
obstacle towards political evolution. People are not afraid to demand for equal
rights but the so-called mainstream politics and elected office is still
baffling to the Chinese. The Chinese community's history in Canada also plays a
major role in its reluctance to venture into politics. Following the completion
of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the federal government imposed a heavy head tax
on new Chinese immigrants. Only from the late 1960s and early 1970s, the
Trudeau government liberalization of immigration that Chinese people came to
Canada from Hong Kong. In 1979 , he organized a demonstration to urge the
federal government to admit more "boat people" - community members were appalled.
"Don't rock the boat" was exactly what ...

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Added: 9/8/2006 10:08:27 PM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 700
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