Page 10 of 11 « First < 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 > 01-03-2019, 12:15 PM elnrgby 3,586 posts, read 1,276,165 times Reputation: 4438 Advertisements Quote: mesa1974 Originally Posted by I miss the old Chinatown and yes it's been gentrified very quickly.

I will miss Chinatown too, but it is not really all because of unfairly reviled "gentrification". In the old Chinatown in San Francisco, there used to be this lovely small hospital, The Chinese Hospital, yellow building with Chinese woodwork and a suggestion of a pagoda roof. It was a very pretty building, and Bruce Lee was born there, and it was on the hill, with views all the way to the East Bay. I always thought I needed to photograph it thoroughly, because a few photos on the Internet do not do it any justice at all. Well, one day I finally remembered to take my camera, and went over... and was greeted by huge cranes, wrecking balls, heaps of brick and dust. The Chinese policewoman guarding the wreckage site said the hospital was very old, structurally unsafe, and beyond salvage....Not the only time I cried for a building (I still cry sometimes when I look down the avenues, and do not see the WTC towers), but what can anybody do about it? Buildings have their own life and death too, and new buildings reflect the interests of new times. I hope beyond hope for the return of brick and wrought iron, but am being told by an architect friend that those materials are not only expensive, but also too heavy for modern building techniques... so, hundred floors of cheap glass swaying in the breeze is what it is, for the foreseeable future )-: I will miss Chinatown too, but it is not really all because of unfairly reviled "gentrification". In the old Chinatown in San Francisco, there used to be this lovely small hospital, The Chinese Hospital, yellow building with Chinese woodwork and a suggestion of a pagoda roof. It was a very pretty building, and Bruce Lee was born there, and it was on the hill, with views all the way to the East Bay. I always thought I needed to photograph it thoroughly, because a few photos on the Internet do not do it any justice at all. Well, one day I finally remembered to take my camera, and went over... and was greeted by huge cranes, wrecking balls, heaps of brick and dust. The Chinese policewoman guarding the wreckage site said the hospital was very old, structurally unsafe, and beyond salvage....Not the only time I cried for a building (I still cry sometimes when I look down the avenues, and do not see the WTC towers), but what can anybody do about it? Buildings have their own life and death too, and new buildings reflect the interests of new times. I hope beyond hope for the return of brick and wrought iron, but am being told by an architect friend that those materials are not only expensive, but also too heavy for modern building techniques... so, hundred floors of cheap glass swaying in the breeze is what it is, for the foreseeable future )-:

01-03-2019, 01:06 PM propman-nyc 1,121 posts, read 400,727 times Reputation: 723 "China Town" was a generous gift from the USA to the Chinese giving them a homebase to build their culture within the USA. Is there still a need for "China Town"? How are descendants of Chinese being marginalized?

They have college degrees, SUV's, houses, careers, businesses, large families, land, stakes in our land, women, food, medicine. Some of the Chinese are doing better than people in the USA.



What more do the Chinese want now? Maybe it's time they start giving back somehow? Oh but wait, that is not the Chinese way... the Chinese way is to just take advantage of the USA. I swear it is like that (depressing) short story called The Giving Tree. Where the person just keeps taking and taking and taking until the tree is dead.



I vote to cut them off. 01-03-2019, 01:20 PM Foamposite 4,551 posts, read 1,553,645 times Reputation: 3609 I still see new Chinese businesses opening in Fuzhou Chinatown. 01-03-2019, 01:44 PM vision33r Location: NYC 17,485 posts, read 11,134,580 times Reputation: 20926 Old Chinatown is no longer attractive area to crazy rich Chinese. Who would want to buy and build on a tiny area. 01-03-2019, 02:11 PM Bumbleboom 86 posts, read 44,786 times Reputation: 201 Quote: propman-nyc Originally Posted by "China Town" was a generous gift from the USA to the Chinese giving them a homebase to build their culture within the USA. Is there still a need for "China Town"? How are descendants of Chinese being marginalized?

They have college degrees, SUV's, houses, careers, businesses, large families, land, stakes in our land, women, food, medicine. Some of the Chinese are doing better than people in the USA.



What more do the Chinese want now? Maybe it's time they start giving back somehow? Oh but wait, that is not the Chinese way... the Chinese way is to just take advantage of the USA. I swear it is like that (depressing) short story called The Giving Tree. Where the person just keeps taking and taking and taking until the tree is dead.



I vote to cut them off.



You make it sound like they just take take take and don't give back. Same old story of immigrants are leeching off of poor hardworking Americans. So you vote for Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0.You make it sound like they just take take take and don't give back. Same old story of immigrants are leeching off of poor hardworking Americans. 01-03-2019, 02:24 PM propman-nyc 1,121 posts, read 400,727 times Reputation: 723 Quote: Bumbleboom Originally Posted by So you vote for Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0.



You make it sound like they just take take take and don't give back. Same old story of immigrants are leeching off of poor hardworking Americans.



China Town is also historically known as a place with huge crime statistics but I can care less what you think. The Chinese really can be take take take take, gimme gimme gimme. I mean look at the way they trade with the USA and the rest of the world so unscrupulously like it is a sport.



It's time to stop giving Chinese the benefit of the doubt and being so naive. The Chinese are notorious for hiding behind some cultural barrier like "oh me no understand, me speaka no English". It does not fool me. All around the world it is the same old song no matter where and regardless of what language you speak. Whatever man. I'm saying they do not need a China Town anymore. The old idea of giving them a place to get started is long long gone. It's not like the old days anymore. The Chinese already fully adapted into the USA. China Town is not necessary for them. They already own their own stuff here.China Town is also historically known as a place with huge crime statistics but I can care less what you think. The Chinese really can be take take take take, gimme gimme gimme. I mean look at the way they trade with the USA and the rest of the world so unscrupulously like it is a sport.It's time to stop giving Chinese the benefit of the doubt and being so naive. The Chinese are notorious for hiding behind some cultural barrier like "oh me no understand, me speaka no English". It does not fool me. All around the world it is the same old song no matter where and regardless of what language you speak. 01-03-2019, 02:34 PM propman-nyc 1,121 posts, read 400,727 times Reputation: 723 Here is one example, look at this headline from 1 hour ago: "China just landed on the far side of the moon. It has plans to do a lot more."



Landing humans on the Moon is not exactly something that economically deprived countries can do so casually. The Chinese are now wealthier than we are and it is from their take take take take mentality they are renowned for. These headlines are constant and every day. The Chinese do not need our help anymore. It's more the other way around. But then we have that totally depressing book The Giving Tree and that is what happened to the USA. 01-03-2019, 02:36 PM Bumbleboom 86 posts, read 44,786 times Reputation: 201 Quote: propman-nyc Originally Posted by Whatever man. I'm saying they do not need a China Town anymore. The old idea of giving them a place to get started is long long gone. It's not like the old days anymore. The Chinese already fully adapted into the USA. China Town is not necessary for them. They already own their own stuff here.



China Town is also historically known as a place with huge crime statistics but I can care less what you think. The Chinese really can be take take take take, gimme gimme gimme. I mean look at the way they trade with the USA and the rest of the world so unscrupulously like it is a sport.



It's time to stop giving Chinese the benefit of the doubt and being so naive. The Chinese are notorious for hiding behind some cultural barrier like "oh me no understand, me speaka no English". It does not fool me. All around the world it is the same old song no matter where and regardless of what language you speak.



You can play your little "foreigners are stealing our resources game" with uneducated Hispanics stealing low paying jobs and repopulating America in their own image and educated Asians stealing high paying jobs and buying homes. So "whatever man". You can whine online. Keep whining. So "whatever man", when you don't get your way. You sound a massive whiner. The "old days". You try to make Chinese immigrants sound like they are fully integrated yet you deem them as foreigners because they "are more successful than real Americans living in the old good old US of A". I don't know about you, but Chinese influence is non-existent outside of their enclaves in NYC, some cities in SF and that's it. I don't think anyone give Chinese the benefit of the doubt. Don't know what cultural barrier BS you are talking about, because you say they are already integrated with college degrees, houses, etc yet you say they don't speak English and hide behind a cultural barrier.You can play your little "foreigners are stealing our resources game" with uneducated Hispanics stealing low paying jobs and repopulating America in their own image and educated Asians stealing high paying jobs and buying homes. So "whatever man". You can whine online. Keep whining. 01-03-2019, 02:38 PM Bumbleboom 86 posts, read 44,786 times Reputation: 201 Quote: propman-nyc Originally Posted by Here is one example, look at this headline from 1 hour ago: "China just landed on the far side of the moon. It has plans to do a lot more."



Landing humans on the Moon is not exactly something that economically deprived countries can do so casually. The Chinese are now wealthier than we are and it is from their take take take take mentality they are renowned for. These headlines are constant and every day. The Chinese do not need our help anymore. It's more the other way around. But then we have that totally depressing book The Giving Tree and that is what happened to the USA. Chinese Americans =/= China. Sounds like you want to get rid of people so you can take take take take. Headlines are to rouse up fear of other people, culture, country. You sound brainwashed and hateful and ignorant. Keep living your life like this. 01-03-2019, 02:47 PM propman-nyc 1,121 posts, read 400,727 times Reputation: 723 Quote: Bumbleboom Originally Posted by I don't know about you, but Chinese influence is non-existent outside of their enclaves in NYC, some cities in SF and that's it.



I definitely hold a different standpoint. I do not see China as some weak country that needs help. I see China as the new super power, but with folks like you, they are going to keep taking and taking and taking. There are Chinese families in every state in our country. We have Chinese in every major city and every minor city too. In the suburbs. On the water. In the air. They fly and roam here freely.I definitely hold a different standpoint. I do not see China as some weak country that needs help. I see China as the new super power, but with folks like you, they are going to keep Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.



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