Editor:
On Aug. 19, 2020, at about 11 a.m., I was walking the pedestrian road on Greystone Drive with my friend.
We were walking towards the four-way intersection of Greystone and Burnwood Drive.
A middle-aged white man was walking towards us from other direction. I thought he went for shopping at Greystone Plaza, as he was carrying a plastic bag.
He heard we were talking in Japanese and started mimicking it. Then he screamed at us, “Go back to China!”
Well, both of us would not go back to China because we were not from there, we are Japanese. I guess it doesn’t matter to him though, all Asians are same to him.
As he walked away from us, he screamed the same word at us again. He really should shame himself for doing such a thing.
I didn’t take photos or record him making racist remarks at us, as I was scared that it could agitate him and he could be physically violent to us.
I thought about reporting the incident to RCMP, but it wouldn’t do anything as I had nothing to prove what happen. I am living in this area over 20 years and I like this nice and peaceful environment.
I see a lot of racist incidents in Greater Vancouver on the news, but I never thought that kind of act happen around here.
It is truly disappointing.
Takiko Meighan, Burnaby
