Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada

::Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada::

My notes and my memories: sometimes about a mom - sometimes about a wife - sometimes about a woman - sometimes about our life

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Name::Andrea
From::Small city/town, B.C., Canada
I am a short girl from the west cost of BC, Canada and I am a proud Canadian. I went to Japan in 2000 because my Dad told me I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't. He was right. I lived a good life found my husband from the other side of the world and have a beautiful daughter. Basically we lead a pretty normal life filled with normal ups and downs. We both come from different cultures: me Canadian, him Chinese. Living in Japan was a real eye opener about who I am and about the people I associate myself with. I lived and loved in Japan but the time to move on came upon us and in May of 2006 we left and moved to Canada: a huge move for us all. We are now trying to start up again, remodel our lives and create our future for our family. I now feel like a tourist in the country of my birth, my eyes see different and my life will be forever changed. This blog is my notes and observations of our life, our changes, our adventures and new beginnings. Welcome.
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Friday, September 09, 2005

Visible minorities in Canada

My Aunt Lydia just sent me this article. It is another reason to move my child back to Canada.
Lydia, I hope you meet JiXiang soon, she is going to LOVE you.

Joel Baglole and Krisendra Bisetty
Vancouver Sun
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
BY THE NUMBERS:
#1 At 34.5% by 2017, the percentage of British Columbians whose mother tongue will be neither English nor French will be the nation's highest.
111% High-end estimate of population increase of visible minorities across Canada, 2001 to 2017. Bottom end of projected range: 56%.
729,500 Number of ethnic Chinese among Vancouver's visible minorities, 2017 -- the largest visible group.
317,000 Region's South Asian population, 2017 -- second largest.
139,700 Filipinos are headed for third place in the population stakes by 2017, according to highest-growth scenario.
43,000 Victoria's visible minorities by 2017, up from 26,900.
182,600 Number of Sikhs in region by 2017, up from 128,500 projected for 2006.
Thus, it is the largest non-Christian religion.
Buddhism region's #2 non-Christian religion, 2006 (95,000 adherents).
Islam region's #2 non-Christian religion, 2017 (144,600 followers).
COUNTING CANADIANS WHO STAND OUT
COMPARING NUMBERS OF VISIBLE MINORITIES IN B.C.'S REGIONS:
Based on a Statistics Canada scenario looking at the largest potential population expansion.
A number of other scenarios were also studied.
2001 census 2017 projection
Vancouver 740,700 1,533,300
Victoria 26,900 43,000
Abbotsford 26,700 51,600
Rest of B.C. 58,400 90,400
VISIBLE MINORITIES IN GREATER VANCOUVER:
2001 census 2017 projection
Chinese 352,900 729,500
South Asian 171,400 317,000
Black 19,100 40,800
Filipino 58,600 139,700
Latin American 18,000 37,100
Southeast Asian 29,500 43,400
Arab 5,800 20,600
West Asian 21,800 69,300
Korean 25,400 68,300
Japanese 21,900 32,500
Others 16,400 35,100
TOTAL 740,700 1,533,300
Source: Statistics Canada
VANCOUVER'S MINORITIES BY THEIR FAITH:
Statistics Canada looked at the projected growth to 2017 of a number of non-Christian religions.
These figures are for the Greater Vancouver region, ranked in order of largest groups projected for 2006.
Sikh
2006 projection 128.5
2017 projection 182.6
Buddhist
2006 projection 95.0
2017 projection 138.5
Muslim
2006 projection 79.9
2017 projection 144.6
Hindu
2006 projection 36.7
2017 projection 57.3
Jewish
2006 projection 18.2
2017 projection 19.6
Other
2006 projection 14.2
2017 projection 18.7
Thousands

Sorry had to deleat a bunch of this as it was soooo long and causing layout problems.

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