An interesting event occurred recently here in BC that has a lot of people screaming racism and discrimination. Around the east Surrey area, near Langley, is a mini mall\/plaza called the West Willow Plaza. The mall has recently been sold to a new Korean owner who, from what I have read, intends to make the mall consist of only Asian\/Korean themed shops and businesses. The biggest new business to open up within that area would be a business called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153H-Mart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which is Korean supermarket. As a result, all of the non Asian tenants have been asked to leave once their lease expires and there is apparently no option for them to renew.<\/p>\n
Obviously, some of the tenants aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t very happy as some of them have been there for over 20 years. When I read this news personally, due the circumstance I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really see this as a race issue but possibly a bad business decision. The reason I say this is because when it comes to leasing space, realistically the owner has a right to say who can and can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do business on their property and if the new business direction was to develop an Asian themed mall, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really condemn them for doing so. Otherwise, I may as well say any other ethnic or theme specific malls in BC are violating some sort of human rights law.<\/p>\n
I do think it is a bad business decision though due to the way the news broke out without much of an explanation from the new owners. So far, it seems to of cause a lot of controversy and possible boycotts to that business area. For the most part, I have always felt that BC is a very multicultural and diverse place to live in, so I hope this won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t create some kind of unnecessary riot.<\/p>\n
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