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Yes however most people understand the difference between permanent resident immigrants and those who are influencing the market from overseas. There's a general feeling of discontent that a lot of people share regarding the immigration policies which have lead to such a high percentage of Chinese people though. Chinese immigrants have also had a substantial influence on housing prices, however their only crime is having money and wanting to live here.

The problems arise in various areas, such as when the Chinese kids silo themselves in public schools and create false fronts for clubs to improve their "well-roundedness" on university applications. Averages for entry have risen dramatically since Chinese people started moving here en masse - the average entrance grade for UBC faculty of science is now over 92% last time I checked, and you're expected to have a variety of extra curricular activities on top of that. The result is a very high percentage of the scholarships and entrance slots going to Chinese students (sometimes foreign, often permanent citizens who lived here during their highschool years - both of which will have had advanced education in comparison to what's taught here.) This has lead to UBC receiving slang names like "University of British Columbia-China".

Another example would be certain parts of Metro Vancouver which have become majority Chinese (I'm not talking about a "Chinatown" like area) - these areas have sprung up and have resulted in (for example) stores that only have Mandarin text throughout, or English has been treated as a secondary language. This makes such areas unwelcoming to native English speakers and creates a cycle of Chinese-only growth. The rise in Chinese influence in Vancouver has lead to common nicknames such as "Chancouver" and "Hongcouver".

These are just a few of the problems, but yeah tl;dr Chinese people tend to get a bad rep over here - some of it is justifiable, some of it isn't. You can't be upset with people on an individual basis, most who come here do so for their own reasons which are often very reasonable. But it's obvious something needs to be fixed to protect local residents from feeling the burden of Chinese influence - housing prices and school entrance qualifications are already out of control because of it.

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