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Fueling the racist rhetoric is the fact that Vancouver's prosperity has been boosted by the heightened inflow of immigrants and money from Hong Kong. Encouraged by Canada's relatively liberal immigration policies, more and more Hong Kong Chinese are arriving in Vancouver to put down roots before 1997, when the British colony reverts to Chinese sovereignty. That does not please some of greater Vancouver's 1.4 million residents, who see the influx -- 5,000 Hong Kong immigrants came to the region last year -- as a threat to their life-style. Critics grouse about an "Asian invasion" that has sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Prosperity and Parochialism | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...Boksburg (pop. 106,000). Ever since rightists took over the town's city council last year, they have been strictly enforcing the whites-only laws that had fallen into disuse. They began by barring blacks from all municipal facilities, including the local park and lake. The obsession with racist regulations took on surreal dimensions last week when the council voted 10 to 7 to grant the transfer of a lease for the Golden Lake Chinese restaurant from W.G. Ho to another Chinese woman, S.Y. Yip. The only catch: a provision in the new lease that barred nonwhites -- including Chinese -- from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Food for Thought | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

According to residents of West Andrews Hall, racist and homophobic graffiti began appearing more than two weeks ago in a freshpreson entryway...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Brown Harassment Continues | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--Smith College administrators told a large gathering of students that they have asked the district attorney's office to look into a series of racist notes reported by Black students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Asks Local Officials To Look Into Racial Slurs | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

Students at the exclusive women's liberal arts college staged a protest rally and marched on the home of college President Mary Maples Dunn last week after a Black student reported receiving an anonymous racist note on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Asks Local Officials To Look Into Racial Slurs | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

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