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Originally Posted by noclue
Anyone grew up in richmond as a non-chinese or a cbc that cant speak mandarin/cantonese? Did you get ostracized in high school or was there enough diversity in the student body to get along. Im wondering whats it like growing up where an ethnic minority is the majority of the population.
My high school + ubc the fobs tend to stick to themselves and the westernized ones mingle with other ethnicities.
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Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS
Me at my last job with that boss
This is me. I grew up in Richmond. I'm CBC, but there are white people more Asian than me. Surprisingly, despite there only being a small grouping (think 5 people) in a sea of Chinese people, it wasn't that bad. For ref, I'm describing RHS at at lunch when everyone is in the halls, you can literally see the non-asian folks in the crowd of asian faces.
Never really did got ostracized - I was friends with everybody. Well except for the FOBs, I didn't talk to those people lol.
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I came over from Alberta as banana as they come. Richmond is the reason I even bothered learning Cantonese. To my surprise, there were quite a few Asians I knew who grew up here and didn't speak a word of their own language. I thought that was odd considering the demographics here. Me coming from white af surroundings, there was no reason for me to bother learning my language. But here? I was suddenly surrounded by people who all spoke in their own language so I had to learn or feel left out.