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A Place To Eat for Every (and Any) Culture on Yonge Street

"Paramount Middle Eastern Cuisine and Bakery"
The women in white are wearing hijabs. There were 
altogether four "hijabed" women sitting together.
(To see larger versions, click on the images)

Walking down Yonge Street, the longest street in Toronto (it goes even further north than the city itself), one sees the multicultural smorgasbord that the city has become. In fact, many people will now proudly proclaim that "Toronto is the most diverse city in the world." What that means is that Toronto is now a city of many cultures, many of them incompatible with each other, and with the main, white Canadian culture. The streets are filled with foreign sounds.

Even Tim Hortons, the coffee house named after a Canadian hockey legend, is filled with gibberish tongues. Yesterday, I was standing waiting for a cup of coffee, and I ended up in front of a table of five or six women, talking loudly in Filipino, oblivious to their surroundings. They could have been in Manila for all they knew.

The photos below are of restaurants along the Yonge Street stretch. As far as restaurants go, there is nothing really unusual about them. We are now used to eating food from around the world. (Some say that the idea of multiculturalism was sold to the Canadian public through their stomachs - imagine all those savory foods we can now eat!).

What popped out of these images is that the restaurants were not catering for the general Canadian public after all! They have become eateries for the very same ethnic group from which the foods originate! Why not come to Canada. We can even find our food on the most famous street in the country.

"Asian Bowl: Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai Cuisine"
An "oriental" woman is at the window seat.

These days, second generation Korean, Chinese, Filipino and even Thai seem to be willing to mix together as a Pan Asian group. This is an impromptu movement (not strategically planned) to solidify their strength against other "ethnics" and the most powerful "ethnic" of them all, the whites.

"Korean Grill House"
Bulgogi was meant to be for Koreans!


This Caribbean place was empty. But a black man had walked out just as
I was taking the picture.

(Photos by KPA)

'Grinch' Steals Packages Off Doorsteps, Signs For Deliveries

'Grinch' Steals Packages Off Doorsteps,
Signs For Deliveries...

Drudge is on a roll today. Under a heading of CHRISTMAS CRIMES, here is what the ubiquitous (and often gossipy) editor has to report:

- Drive-By Purse Snatcher Terrorizing Women In NJ...

- Burglar steals family's gifts -- and its dog!

- Grave robbers steal 400 urns from cemetery...

- 'Grinch' Steals Packages Off Doorsteps, Signs For Deliveries...

- Home Invaders Tie Up 12-Year-Old Boy, Take Video Games...

- 90-Year-Old Man Put In Choke-Hold, Robbed Of $370...

- Bus driver quits after being videotaped running over snowman...

- Armed Motorcycle Bandit Nabs $1.5 Million in Casino Heist...

Erosion of Civility

Photo from Toronto Star article
"A city of unmatched diversity"

A couple of days ago, I was in line at my local pharmacy to buy a breath freshener, and the wait was longer than what my purchase warranted, so I was mischievously looking to pass the time with a nice looking lady behind me whom I recognized as an Ethiopian - more precisely as an Amhara. I said "Selam" to her in Amharic. Her response would tell me all I would need to know. If she replies in Amharic, then I know she would converse in Amharic. She replied in Amharic.

The pleasant-looking Ethiopian woman turned sour when I said to her: "Don't you think we're being inundated with Chinese these days?" as I pointed to a Chinese customer at the cashier, and remarked that every other person that passes by me in the downtown area is Chinese. As we conversed, I also said that the Chinese are now in Ethiopia, building bridges and dams at the invitation of the anti-West, anti-Amhara regime of the Tigray people, bringing their own people to do so. At the same time, they are siphoning away precious material, including water!

Of course, in this multi-culti city, language is up for grabs. This woman doesn't have to respond in Amharic, and I reply in English when people I don't know talk to me in Amharic. My firm position is that everyone should speak in English, including Quebeckers. But, knowing a second language (and culture) can give one many insights.

Her response was interesting. It was a combination of instinctive political correctness (Toronto trains its citizens well), a reprimand, and arrogant superiority. I understood the third implication much later on as I thought about our interaction - this is what I mean that language often provides an uncanny insight into people's thoughts.

She replied, a little aggressively: "Let them work" - "Yisru."

As though work is an undisputed right for everyone, irrespective of his qualifications, merits or motives. I think she takes this perceptive from the multi-culti equality indoctrination she has been subjected to in Toronto. And work becomes a human right, and absent of working, one still gets a substitute "salary" through various government handouts.

I believe that her second (and perhaps true) meaning is more subtle, where she meant: let them do the work. At some deep visceral level, she is still an Ethiopian, and she will still have more attachment, and feel more protection, towards Ethiopians than the Chinese. Let them work for Ethiopia, is probably part of her reasoning. Her response is also the vestiges of the ruling Amhara mentality, who were accustomed to subordination. "Let the Chinese build whatever we need."Such is the contradictions of liberalism. Elitism - necessary and human - is everywhere, even in liberal milieus, and ideologies cannot eradicate it. People feel closer to their own; people discriminate; hierarchies are everywhere. So much for the multicultural paradise.

I asked, what is wrong with having Ethiopians build their own country? And why import workers from so far away? And why not pay Ethiopians, rather than foreigners, to do a good day's work? If I had more time, and if I thought she would have understood me, I would have continued: Why cannot a government think in terms of its own people? And why are the Chinese there, who have no good record of helping other countries? We had it with the communist Russians. And now it is the Maoist Chinese. What do they really want from Ethiopia?

When it was my turn to go to the cashier I said "Melkam Genna" - "Merry Christmas" - to the Ethiopian woman, with the customary half bow (she looked older) and left.

There are many more stories I could tell where I have confronted my multi-culti fellow "citizens", one of which was to tell burqa (whole body covering!) clad women that we were watching them! Another to ask two Chinese women behind me on an escalator talking loudly and irritatingly in Chinese if they can speak English. And finally, to tell a Chinese woman in my supermarket who was letting her son run amok, shouting in Chinese, why she doesn't restrain his behavior. She asked why I don't restrain my behavior by shutting up. I replied: "Then I wouldn't be able to tell people like you when you're disturbing our peace." The kid later on went into a screaming fit. A few Canadian men looked at me sympathetically (one a little bemused). After all, this is a country where politeness reigns supreme, and my behavior was an impolite way of reasserting politeness.

Library Closed due to Police Investigation

In my previous post on a crossbow shooting and killing that took place in front of mothers and children in a community library in downtown Toronto, I wrote that the library planned to continue with its scheduled events.

There is a notice up at the top of the library's website which states that:

As of Thursday, Dec. 2, the Main Street branch is closed until further notice due to a police investigation.

It is sad to see the Christmas activities that were planned for December, and that are still up on the website's side panel, including a musical event for young children on December 6, canceled.

Festering beneath the Calm of these Chinese Immigrants

The pleasant Main/Gerrard community library 
in the eastern section of Toronto where Zhou Fang
killed his father Si Cheng with a crossbow.

Despite last Thursday's horrific murder, the library
plans to continue with its planned events, including
one taking place on December 6, advertised as:

Snow! Snow! Snow! A Children's
Musical Morning with Mark Battenberg.

Join musician Mark Battenberg as we
celebrate the winter season with story
and song. Plus stay for a short craft!
For children 5 years old and under and
their caregivers.

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The associated press, in its article "Canadian uses crossbow to kill another man" reports:

A Canadian man was charged with first-degree murder Friday [December 3, 2010] for fatally shooting his father in the back with a crossbow in a Toronto library as shocked mothers and children watched.

Then the very next paragraph elucidates:

Zhou Fang, 24, appeared in court to face the murder charge a day after Si Cheng, 52, was killed in the library about an hour after a nearby school let out for the day. The judge ordered that Fang be held without bail.

Canadian journalists and news reporters are using "Canadian" to mean anyone who resides in Canada. They don't even bother to qualify the word with "an immigrant to Canada." It is clear as we read further that these were Chinese men, and possibly first generation immigrants.

Commentators at the article realize there is more to the story than a "Canadian" with a crossbow. One writes:

Canadian hockey players try to kill each other every night--and they do it with sticks.

Another writes:

Typical Canadians...

A few jokes:

Killerbee says: Can't blame him. He though it was a moose. :D

Roberta quips: At least Fang was considerate enough to the other library patrons to use a weapon that didn't make any noise. Just imagine how upset the Canadian police would be if there had been a loud bang in a library.

This comment gets closer to the truth:

Zhou Fang in the library, with a cross-bow.

Sam writes:

My guess is that he is actually a crazy Chinese guy and not a REAL Canadian.

Chris can't use "Chinese" and opts for the generic "Asian":

Canada really needs to start screening their immigrants better. First an asian dude decapitates a guy on a bus and eats his head, now this asian guy shoots his dad in the back with a crossbow in a library and kills him. What's next?

Lee Vinning suggests a solution:

Another argument for immigration control and reform.

But Pig Mohammed had the right idea, much earlier in the comments (at #20 out of 166). His train of thought was captured sporadically, but never caught on.

Does Zhou Fang and Si Cheng sound Canadian to you? Get real, liberal lamestream media. Nobody is buying your lefty crap anymore. These were two third world rats settling a score like they do back home in whatever toilet country they crawled out of.. NOTHING Canadian about it.

In the AP article, a witness says about Zhou Fang,

He looked very calm and was holding something in his hand...I noticed him but it’s not like he was acting strange or anything.

This is the second, bizarre and ultra-violent incident involving Chinese immigrants in Canada. The first involved Chinese Muslim Vincent Li, the Greyhound bus decapitator of two years ago who cut off the head of the traveler sleeping next to him. Li also had a calm demeanor, unfitting for the violent crime he had just committed.

These murderers are using knives and cross-bows, primitive weapons, to wreak havoc. Even Rosie DiManno, the ultra-liberal Toronto Star's ultra liberal columnist writes,

The crossbow is a weapon of medieval war.

DiManno continues:

The bolt struck Cheng in the back, causing massive trauma. He was pronounced dead at the scene, that ghastly image forever imprinted on the minds of witnesses mulling about the book stacks, including children and their moms.

Chinese immigrants are touted as model immigrants, with high education levels, living peaceful and prosperous lives, and quickly assimilating into the Canadian society.

But, I wrote recently of my four-year interaction with Chinese immigrants as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher. I reached my peak after three years, and quit the post at my fourth year. I wrote about leaving my position:

I left (abruptly to my supervisors) after some months of reflection. My main reason (which I of course didn't disclose) was that I didn't find any sense of commitment to Canada by these Chinese immigrants (or Chinese newcomers, as the ESL crowd called them). In fact, I thought I was giving them too much information with which they can continue their Chinese alliances (and affinities) while seeing what they can claim from Canada. I got this impression from discussions during the class. In one class I got the students to sing the Canadian national anthem, partly as a reaction to their anti-Canadianism during a discussion, standing up. Some refused to sing, others made a fuss about getting up. That's when I knew my days were numbered.

I found there had no real commitment to Canadian and Western history, culture or even society. I found this even with second and third generation Chinese. This aspect became clear during my art school years, where every single Chinese-Canadian student would go out of his way to incorporate Chinese elements into his work. And there I was foolishly channeling the German-American Josef Albers, or the English Arts and Crafts mogul William Morris.