The Chinese are Angry, real Angry

Fifty years from now I would like to remember fondly of 2005 as a time when Chinese Canadians got their shit together and mounted an effective campaign to get somewhere in society. I understand from most of my Asian Canadian friends and other "ethnics" that it is the same sad story in their communities.

Some examples:

• In 1989, thousands of students were killed in Tianamen Square seeking some idealized version of democracy and were pancaked by tanks for dreaming.
  
  The Chinese Canadian community rallied in anger and moved to get a memorial dedicated at Stanley Park. Unfortunately, some other Chinese Canadian groups (the pancake loving variety) lobbied City Hall hard against such a remembrance. Said memorial was as a result exiled to UBC, where it stands to this day in front of the SUB/Aquatic Centre. Leaders of said movement grew to bigger and better things and espoused the need for Canadian multi-nationals to do business with Communist China in order to better influence democratic values.
  
  
• In the 1990's, some more introspective Chinese Canadians found it abhorent that the Chinese ethnicity was singled out for the Head Tax and sought redress. Canada specifically charged $500 a head for immigration to Canada for the Chinese - raking in some $23 million (today's dollars, i believe).
  
  The Chinese Canadian community rallied in anger and moved to correct this injustice, citing similar redress moves by the Mulroney government towards interned Japanese Canadians during WWII. Unfortunately, some other Chinese Canadian groups (the Head Tax loving variety) told people that matter that it was the other way around. Chinese should actually be thankful that Canada gave us a home country to have.
  
  
• In 2005, angry Chinese Canadians marched to support a global campaign against terror. This terror was the spectre of a new rise of expansionist Japan that will once rise up again and torture/rape/bayonet its neighbours (for the sheer sadistic pleasure, bonsai!).
  
  The Chinese Canadian community rallied in anger and moved to correct this injustice, suggesting the Canadian government should stick it to Japan and prevent them from getting on the coveted UN Security Council, and make Japan pass laws in its own country to outlaw denying the Asian Holocaust. Unfortunately, their read on history and the strategic positioning of the issue was flawed, and they were not able to even get an audience nor commitment from Foreign Affairs Canada to help right a wrong of history.

What are the problems with these stories? For the most part, it is due to the relatively unsophisticated experience of the community to behave and be effective within a North American environment. Lack of unity, ego, turf sheer ineptitude, no communications strategy, no government relations experts & no credible altruistic leaders -- these are some of the things that continue to this date to challenge the community. No matter how great the idea or ideal is, the inability for Chinese Canadians to clearly and effectively communicate issues to a mass audience - it is the detriment that I believe will keep this group the largest visible minority in Canada & a non-factor in influencing where the country will go.