Faced with a proliferation of luxury housing and chain stores, America’s Chinatowns risk extinction as new immigrants are priced out of city centers, an advocacy group said on Oct. 9.
A study found that foreign-born residents have become a minority in the Chinatowns of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The number of white residents has grown in all three neighborhoods since 1990 even as the white populations in all the cities as a whole declined.
“For many Asian Americans, Chinatown is an essential part of our heritage and history. But Chinatowns on the East Coast are on the verge of disappearing,” said the report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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The report did not assess the large Chinese American communities on the West Coast, although they have witnessed broadly similar trends with a Wal-Mart controversially opening in September in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.
(AFP)
高級住宅與無孔不入的連鎖店,使得美國的唐人街隨著新移民因房價過高,而被迫離開市中心,面臨滅絕危機,一個倡議團體十月九日表示。
一份研究發現,海外出生的居民已成為紐約、波士頓與費城唐人街的少數族群。即便這三大城市的白人人口整體而言逐漸減少,但在這三大城唐人街的白人居民數量,卻從ㄧ九九0年起有所成長。
「對許多亞裔美國人而言,唐人街是我們的傳承與歷史的重要一環。但(美國)東岸的唐人街已瀕臨消失危機」,這份「亞裔美國人法律辯護與教育基金」的報告指出。
儘管美國西岸的唐人街也出現類似趨勢,如威名百貨一家分店九月份在爭議聲中於洛杉磯唐人街開幕,該報告並未對西岸的大型華裔美國人社區進行評估。
(法新社/翻譯:張沛元)
A: Wow, three Taiwanese restaurants just won the 2024 “Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants” awards. B: Awesome! Which three restaurants? A: Taipei’s Logy at No. 22 and MUME at No. 34, and Taichung’s JL Studio at No. 33. B: Actually, there are many more great establishments in Taipei. How about other Asian cities? A: Singapore claimed nine spots this year, making it Asia’s new “food capital.” A: 2024「亞洲50最佳餐廳」名單揭曉了,台灣有3家餐廳上榜。 B: 好厲害,哪3家? A: 台北的Logy和MUME分獲第22和34名,台中的JL Studio獲第33名! B: 其實台北還有很多好餐廳,那其他的亞洲城市呢? A: 新加坡今年入選9家,可說是亞洲美食之都。 (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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