Good Vibes: Geography Student

Indo Canadian Dept: The East Asian, Caucasian and Indo-Canadian vendors were serving the ethnically diverse customers who had come to check out the fish, art, cheese, crafts, psychic readers, theatres, restaurants and other people. This week many informal multicultural interactions took place at Granville Island over coffee, soup or sushi, while a snappy folk music duo played and money crossed counters along with questions and soft smiles, according to Vancouver Sun. A University of B.C. geography student is focusing her PhD on how such marketplaces are often served as hubs of "spontaneous" inter-ethnic connection, full of "good vibes" and "benevolence." Working on her admittedly "very fun" academic project, Yolande Pottie-Sherman released her paper, titled Markets and Diversity, this month through federally funded Metropolis B.C., which researches immigration issues and even on a cold, gloomy weekday there is something eclectic and socially electric about Granville Island Market. The market on a dark winter's day is only a small reminder of how a lively marketplace -- such as a bazaar, flea market, swap meet, summer market or farmers' market -- can contribute to multicultural fusion in an immigrant-suffused metropolis like Metro Vancouver. As reported in the news.
@t granville island market, metro vancouver