Woman whines about no ‘white’ food in Burnaby mall

A large amount of email messages movement into my inbox each working day on so several various subjects.

Recently, the tsunami of COVID-19 conspiracies has (fortunately) slowed down to a trickle. They’ve been changed with persons complaining about laneway residences in Burnaby and how the town is “growing much too rapidly.”

Oh, and the lack of “white” food items in a Burnaby searching shopping mall.

Indeed, you go through that proper, another person actually took the time to e mail their community newspaper to complain about how their community shopping mall has as well many “Asian food” options.

The email came as a “letter to the editor” but didn’t incorporate their entire title. We really do not publish letters with out their name driving it until there is a safety concern.

The criticism is about how she went to the Astounding Brentwood shopping centre and uncovered there was a lack of “diversity” in the possibilities at the food stuff courtroom.

“I don’t brain the new Brentwood alone,” she wrote. “In reality, the redevelopment and style of the mall is lovely. What I do take purpose with, even so, is the deficiency of diversity of the food stuff court, which I lately checked out for the very first time. Regrettably, I discovered myself getting to make the trek to get my lunch somewhere else, for the reason that there was not a person restaurant in the food stuff court that catered to my fundamental white burger-loving simple Jane. Just about everywhere I turned, it was Asian food. And that is not an exaggeration. I felt like I was in another state. I realize that Burnaby’s populace is heavily Asian. But to not have any flexibility as considerably as food items decisions go in a shopping mall that’s situated in a assorted local community is a big oversight.”

Remarkable.

Consider remaining upset about this.

First of all, if she actually wished “white” foods she could have wandered around to the DQ which is just outside of the food stuff courtroom. Or she could have walked a quick length to the two-storey McDonald’s that’s situated in the shopping mall – just not in the food court docket simply because the burger large preferred a greater space. Or you could consume at the pizza place. Or you could wait a handful of months until the mall opens the White Spot R+D Kitchen at the west side of the foods courtroom.

So the mall does provide these selections, but it should not even issue.

Secondly, expressing that you felt like you were being in “another country” because of some Asian eateries is blatantly racist. Why never you just yell “go again to your country” at the prospects and be accomplished with it.

Critically, more than enough with this rubbish. This grievance is a symbol of the continued anti-Asian dislike that we’ve witnessed in Burnaby and further than. We are a group of so numerous cultures and they all belong.

Follow Chris Campbell on Twitter @shinebox44.