UBC condo owners petition against hospice, citing cultural insensitivity. - Polidicks

Man it's gotta be fucking depressing working at one of those places. I don't see what the big problem is, somebody want to explain the issue with hospices beyond "cultural" pretenses?

They just using culture as an excuse they need to deal with it land for development won't create itself.

I was about to get transferred to UBC :smith:

*Update* [quote]Distancing themselves from condo owners who have opposed a hospice on cultural grounds, Chinese community representatives on Tuesday held a press conference to say the residents’ views do not accurately represent Chinese culture or beliefs. The group – which included an academic, a feng shui practitioner and the executive director of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians – said while residents’ concerns may reflect some aspects of Chinese folklore, it is false to claim that living next door to a hospice is incompatible with Chinese culture. “There is a very grave concern in the Chinese community – and it’s not just amongst a few – that Chinese culture is being misrepresented by a few and is giving Chinese-Canadians, and Chinese culture, a bad name,” David Choi, national executive director of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians, said at the press conference. The clash between a proposed hospice and what residents said was their cultural sensitivities emerged last week, when a group of people who live in a condominium tower on the University of British Columbia Campus went public with their objections to a planned 15-bed hospice near their homes. A spokeswoman for the group, consisting mostly of recent Chinese immigrants, said 80 per cent of the building’s residents are Asian and that a nearby hospice would flout Chinese cultural sensitivities around death and dying. It is “impossible” for Chinese people to have dying people in their backyard, Janet Fan said in an interview. In response to resident concerns, UBC put the project on hold. The residents’ comments, and UBC’s response, resulted in a flood of commentary, including extensive coverage in Vancouver’s Chinese-language media. Mr. Choi and others at the event said they decided to discuss the issue in public after getting calls from friends and business associates urging them to speak out. Compassion and respect – especially for the elderly – are entrenched Chinese cultural values and a hospice is compatible with those values, Mr. Choi said. He and other speakers discussed the concept of yin and yang – cited by residents as a factor in their objections to the hospice – as being about balance and wholeness, rather than exclusion. In Chinese religious teachings, there is no higher virtue than relieving other people’s suffering, said Jan Walls, founding director of the David Lam Centre at Simon Fraser University. “The relief of suffering is probably one of the noblest goals and one of the noblest activities that a Chinese person can engage in,” Mr. Walls said. The hospice had been scheduled to open in mid-2012. The current site was chosen through a four-year process that weighed other campus locations, including one that resulted in objections from students because of its proximity to student residences. UBC nixed that site based on land use and density considerations, not stakeholder objections, a spokesman said on Tuesday. According to the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, more than 100 million people a year need palliative care but fewer than eight million receive it. In Canada, only 16 to 30 per cent of residents have access to or receive hospice palliative care, depending on where they live. [/quote] [url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/hospice-critics-dont-speak-for-us-chinese-community-says/article1875103/]**SOURCE**[/url]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;27505583]Pubs are my churches.[/QUOTE] Amen to that.

[QUOTE=Van-man;27516648]Amen to that.[/QUOTE] And now if you will open your bottles we will drink from the gospel according to Jack

[QUOTE=PEn1s lol;27508567]By decades I think you mean since late 70's early 80's and things where never that good since then. As soon as we let the French in Quebec get away with more and more It was all down hill from there. If the Canadian government would stop being the USA's bitch we would have our own culture.[/QUOTE] Canada being USA's bitch is our culture. [editline]19th January 2011[/editline] We are butt buddies forever

[QUOTE=Habsburg;27516973]Canada being USA's bitch is our culture. [editline]19th January 2011[/editline] We are butt buddies forever[/QUOTE] We need Chrétien back.

It's amazing how people have to find a bone to pick on for just about everything

If I owned my own country and someone complained about how my rules broke their cultures rules I'd kick them the FUCK out. Edit: I'd also put all my dead in their backyards.

[QUOTE=Crackatowa;27525315]If I owned my own country and someone complained about how my rules broke their cultures rules I'd kick them the FUCK out. Edit: I'd also put all my dead in their backyards.[/QUOTE] Go play even more Tropico

Why should a country adapt to foreigners? It should be the other way round.

[QUOTE=Pace.;27533607]Why should a country adapt to foreigners? It should be the other way round.[/QUOTE] why does it have to be one or the other also way to not understand that the complaint is just an excuse to keep property values from going down