Hydi Sham, a family support worker at Richmond Family Place Society, says she has seen a lot of anti-Asian hate incidents in Richmond over the past two years that unfairly blamed Chinese people for the COVID-19 pandemic. She's hopeful hatred will die down in the Year of Tiger.
Hydi Sham says she has seen a lot of anti-Asian hate incidents in Richmond, but she's hopeful that people will become more friendly to each other in the Year of the Tiger.Richmond entrepreneur Franco Ng is also a chair of the Youth Forum for Asian Representation's advisory board based in Vancouver. He says a lot of anti-Asian hate during the pandemic has stemmed from the prejudicial view that Asians don't belong in Canada.
"That's important, because what we say is to visualize [to] actualize — a lot of times we don't actually notice the contributions of Chinese Canadians or Asian Canadians just because either we don't speak up about it or we don't get actually that mainstream reporting about it." Ng says he is seeing hope in the young generation of Asian Canadians who are passionate about starting their own initiatives to build a better Richmond.