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Vancouvers Night Club Racial Discrimination
Posted by: connorwilson | September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Vancouver’s infamous night club “The Mirage” located in North Surrey, has captured such a negative reputation through its history of sexual assault cases, under-aged admission and most recently gang shootings. In August of 2011, a man known by the Surrey RCMP was getting in to his SUV when between six and eight shots were fired at his vehicle, though the man suffered little injury, the Mirage nightclub took a polar opposite turn in attempt to better its reputation.
The owners of the club, after faced with a pile of letters from various attourneys and advisors around the city, went “cold turkey” so to speak, and tightened the rules towards all illegal activity in the club. The new instalment of rules included added security on underaged admission, and more security guards inside the club to fight sexual assault. As for stopping gang affiliation with the area, well, they took it ethically and racially too far.
By following trends, the Mirage owners decided to weed out a single race for they were responsible for nearly all of the gang drama which happened at that particular club. In this case, it was the Indo-Canadian citizens. Along with no longer allowing Indo-Canadians in to the club, they also went further and have tightened dress code rules, allowing no “gang-affiliated” wear such as Ehko, Ed Hardy, Christean Audiger and so on. This ethical Dilemma, of pure racism is not one which a successful owner of any company should get involved in or advocate at all.