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Elderly Chinese Group Kicked Out of Mall for Practicing Tai Chi

#taichi#incomeseniors#mall#seniorcitizens#vancouver
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0:00 it really don't seem like something that would be a problem yeah dude that's uh it's like Bart's mom if you even attach her to electrical wires it's not gonna power anything nope you can send that back in time [Music] okay since you understand uh Chinese can you talk can you translate what could be happening in this clip just by listening [Laughter] foreign

1:04 we all need to leave including myself so we all have to leave right now wow that that's pretty messed up so why do you think that even happened somebody called the cops yeah is that like an America and they're like oh it's covered 20. it's in Vancouver Canada yeah and you have these uh like a group of senior citizens and they're saying they're low-income seniors they're being kicked out of the mall in the morning for doing Tai Chi oh Jesus wait that whole area looks Chinese like the the building yeah is this some coveted ████ no it's just gathered it's some private property ████ isn't that that is sad why aren't they outside for tai chi I expect them to be in the public I think it's safer maybe or maybe it was raining that day or

1:54 something it was cold maybe it's cold yeah but uh that building why is it so China themed that's what I don't get I think Vancouver in general is trying to theme no but I mean like so I get it if they're like in the middle of Ross doing Tai Chi yeah and it's like man I can't Shop Right but it's in like a Chinatown area but it looks like they're in a Chinese temple right it's the commons area of the mall but also if it was Ross nobody would complain that's true that's where they should have done Tai Chi yeah yeah yeah really yeah but basically uh they were saying that they're so I guess there's very few public spaces where they are allowed to do that so they would just do it at the mall like this isn't yeah I don't think that's the first time they've done it there damn they can't even do it at the park they have to do at the mall I guess not maybe they got like a lot of windy winds and then the Chinese grandmas get blown away

2:45 maybe it's just easier he lost a couple grandmas wow and so they're they're doing it at the time where like um where it says most of the shops aren't even open yet anyways you know like the early morning yeah like 7 A.M or something yeah like when Mall Walkers come through you know they're they're doing it as people are opening Shop Smart by the way since I moved to Vegas you want to walk outside it's hot as ████ go to the mall yeah very smart and it is it is safer like when I used to work at the mall I would see all kinds of senior activities happening early like right when I got in and they would just get everything done and then as soon as it opens then they all leave you know or they just like hang out where'd you work at the mall uh Cerritos Mall I worked at the cell phone kiosk that was uh it used to be it was called mobile Telesis was eventually the became Verizon yeah sir what was your pitch as as I go by you know what's locked him out with my chick all right so at the time I wasn't allowed to speak

3:35 to you unless you speak to me first really yeah they that's when they started the Mandate that said that uh because people stopped wanting to go to malls because in the early 2000s it became too Sharky that people would always go hey what's up you got a phone man and then it got annoying everyone hated it so they said the new rule for mall management is that you have to uh you can't initiate conversation so if you said so you can't even even if you were just silently right in front of my face I couldn't speak to you really yeah you have to like say something to me oh so you got to be like this and then they're like hi and then you're like haha I gotcha yeah because you make them say it's the military call that Rules of Engagement yeah they call it don't ask don't tell but yeah it was uh don't ask them so like as I would open up I would just see all these you know the seniors and not one time that I ever see mall management

4:25 tell them to leave or anything they could do this there that's sad all the grandmas they all look like what do we do what did I do exercise yeah they look all like what they look cut off guard who's the Scrooge that called the police on him so uh the Vancouver seat the actual like City of Vancouver officials have uh issued an apology for the for this action because it's obviously like the greatest yeah it's kind of it is egregious and also like if their whole thing is that they don't feel welcomed and there's no place for them to go that's as easy to gather and to me I'm like if if you're if they're good enough to you know be your customers then why don't you isn't that better for your business anyway yeah to like think make it what's more welcoming than a ████ mall now anyway there's nobody there that's true they're all dying retail is

5:16 dying yeah Westfield is ████ yeah it's a real estate company now oh wow really yeah well um I wonder if it's the same for like malls that are predominantly like Asian like media you know like like South Coast Plaza has got a ton of Asian people in it and it's not dying and San Anita mall not dying yeah they keep building more like wings yeah it's it's if anything it's getting bigger better yeah and bigger and um I wonder if they they treat it differently because it's like an you know it's not a dead Mall because it's more like Asian retailers or Asian customers I don't know man either a little snobby about it it sucks seeing the faces of these disappointed people yeah because they're not doing they're doing tragic bro and they're gonna leave in an hour yeah right yeah they're so old they don't have the stamina to be there for like seven hours and they're so old

6:06 they're on a schedule too yeah right yeah they wake up at like four and go to sleep at like four it says it says that uh when the senior citizens started to do their Tai Chi that the mall staff was like like physically stopping their movements what they put their hands on them yeah suck that sucks they put they would like touch their arms to like stop them from doing yeah that's just weird it's weird because that on them for being Unstoppable yeah they should ████ do something that means their Tai Chi is sucky yeah a little bit because it's like you're gonna let put someone put hands on you all that practice you suck fool I see Kung Fu The Legend Continues they need to train with Ron honestly yeah Andy's ████ a singers fight back allegedly too they were saying that uh some of the staff that was telling them to stop had said things like this isn't China this isn't Hong Kong you can't just gather and work

6:57 out here jeez wow insulted come to Monterey Park they're friendly yeah they're doing it at the park like every day right this isn't China's pretty good yeah this is in Hong Kong but I mean what a city to say that in Vancouver's almost China I know right it was crazy I feel like it was coming from Asian employees too yeah probably they're saying China get out of here yeah so they're saying they're not they weren't able to verify of any culturally insensitive comments were made but the city does not tolerate racism of any kind so they've issued an apology and I think they're trying to help them find a place where they can do this that feels comparatively safe like a Tai Chi Center like a Thai cheese low it's specific thing they're low-income seniors so I think that's a

7:48 lot to do with why they're at the mall yeah I feel like all seniors are low income yeah yeah like I don't know no income seniors like they're retired they ain't making money they're getting Social Security they're living in like these 55 plus year old communities that are like yeah they're basically on welfare like yeah unless you're like being taken care of by your family or you did really really well in life like I don't know oh they're all in um Sedona the baller the baller senior citizens they'll retire there or they're in a trailer park yeah but like I don't know any High income seniors yeah okay I always feel like people usually just leave Asian grandmas alone when they're just like exercising and stuff because they're very regimented you know they're there every ████ morning and they just make up what they're gonna do like they'll be

8:38 ████ doing ████ like this yeah they'll just be doing ████ like this yeah they don't really do anything they just be doing like this it's not really exercise people do it like this yeah you gotta call the police for that then you do like this it really doesn't seem like something that would be a problem yeah dude that's uh it's like Bart's mom if you even attach her to electrical wires it's not gonna power or anything nope send that ████ back in time she'll suck up the energy yeah yeah so I guess they said they do have a oh it says that Chinatown doesn't have a community center to host programs for seniors wow wow that's what must be a small child that's got to be the only Chinatown in the world that doesn't have a place for seniors so they're not going to let them go in the mall anymore and do tai chi still I think they're trying to find a different thing because technically the mall's private property

9:29 so if they just say no none of this ████ what's the pain in the ass thing though just a bunch of people doing taichu before they wake up they're blocking the Dave and Busters you know where they would be accepted REI REI would be down REI should do like a little Bass Pro Shop oh yeah took a collab space it's old Asian people like fishing right they like fishing supplies and stuff yeah yeah what's another good store that they can go into dude American Store Robinsons they don't even exist I think I think they're all dead now nobody's in JCPenney yeah nobody's in Sears they should go to the North Hollywood Sears that place isn't they should have someone there to pick them up real quick when they leave that's true because North Hollywood series is ████ it's a ████ War 2 30.

10:22 it's a war zone yeah it's like Mogadishu it's Karachi in there your bombs going off randomly get it [Music] foreign [Music]

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