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If Chi nee would not buy your house, should your taxes be lowered to reflect less potential buyers?

A plan to build a hospice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver has run into opposition from luxury condo owners nearby. The proposal calls for a 15-bed palliative care facility, called St. John Hospice, to be built next to a high-rise condominium building called the Promontory. One condo owner said most residents in the building are of Asian descent and believe living close to a hospice will bring bad luck. "In Chinese culture, we are against having dying people in your backyard," said Janet Fan, who has signed a petition against the hospice. "We cannot accept this. It's against our belief, against our culture. It's not culturally sensitive." Fan also said many residents worry about additional traffic and having to discuss the subject of death with their children. A two-bedroom condo in the Promontory sells for almost $1 million, and people fear their property value will plummet if the hospice is built. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/13/bc-ubc-hospice-rejected.html#ixzz1B8MXxL6P

Public Comments

1. Those condo owners can all go feck themselves!
2. I am a Chinese, and may I just say those morons in no way represent the Chinese people as a whole. There is no damn superstitious belief in Chinese culture that justifies their stupidity, and Chinese people are actually very caring, particularly traditionally very respectful to elders, the pompous idiots are using made-up cr*p to "protect" their investment. Chinese culture is about compassion, allowance, mutual respect and care, I stress again these uncivilised trolls are no damn Chinese, and they will never be by the way they're behaving. I say build the hospice and smirk at the enraged looks on those idiots.