Chinese groups in Vancouver step up charitable efforts

The Vancouver Sun interviewed Henry Yu, a UBC history professor, for an article on the ways Metro Vancouver’s Chinese community has increased charity work for Canadian causes.

“It’s both a deliberate effort to ‘give back’ to Canadian society and an organic reflection of people becoming involved in their communities,” he said. “I wouldn’t use the term ‘integration’, since that’s a term that can mean many things or nothing at all. It’s a concrete reflection of involvement and of putting money into things they care about.”