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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The genesis of south asian drug gangs were older guys out of the Ross Street temple in the 80's who exchanged drugs for guns across the US border to send back to the Punjab to fight the Ghandi government, at that stage the Khalistan movement was straight out civil war, there were a large amount of Sikh long haul truck drivers going across the border so they were ideally placed to exploit the trade, they weren't gangsters, were mostly older well off (owner operators of trucking businesses) they viewed it as a necessary way to get money and guns for the movement, their kids though just saw the money they were making and as the war slowly wound down the older guys dropped out and the younger guy took over the US criminal contacts and started trading BC weed for coke rather than guns, they set up grow ops in Vancouver and drug rings to move the coke they got in exchange
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The Hell's Angels and 2000s/early 2010s culture were also major factors. At some point the biker gangs all wised up and realized they could make more money and suffer less drama if they started supplying competing gangs.
Regardless of the history, at some point kids in the Fraser Valley would have been sucked in by the allure and fashion of the drug dealer lifestyle. It's almost a uniform at this point, tattoos, pittbulls, jeans with lots of flare, steroids, ridiculously high fade haircuts, etc..
It's all pretty detached from the initial Khalistan movement. It's also not like Compton, where you have generations of people being initiated into the same gangs. These are just young people choosing to live that lifestyle, and often not out of necessity.