I actually said into West Richmond, but thanks for misquoting me to make it sound like I think they're invading or something. Diversity is pointless if the immigrant population withdraws behind a wall of cultural isolation and actively avoids interacting with the society they've installed themselves in. This is particularly the case with the Asian people who immigrated to the lower mainland leading up to 1997. They don't really get the best the country has to offer - a huge proportion of that population can't even communicate outside of the most basic level, or any better than I could in China.
I went to high school in Richmond. Believe me when I say that while there is some integration (the kids whose parents taught them English at a young age who speak it basically fluently), among the Chinese immigrants there's a huge number that associate basically exclusively with other Chinese people, do not speak English ever unless directly pressed to do so by teachers, and express no interest in any culture besides the culture they brought with them and have cultivated locally.
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