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Immigration: New Personality

Asian Heritage Dept: In less than two generations, Vancouver has transformed from a city dominated by people of British, German and Italian origin to one in which people of Asian heritage make up the majority, according to Vancouver Sun. Since the early 1970s -after Canadian immigration laws made the country more open to Asians and multicultural policies were instituted -the city has developed a whole new personality, one that's attempting, in fits and starts, to fuse Atlantic and Pacific cultures and vancouver was once considered a "European" city. Now it's more accurate to call it "Eurasian." The demographic changes in this city of more than half a million people are most readily seen in the hundreds of restaurants serving Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Japanese, Arabic, Afghan, Malaysian and Korean food. But the changes go much deeper. As reported in the news.
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