Chinatown

Chinese Immigration-Report INTRODUCTION Modern Day Australia has become a vast multicultural society complete with people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. This aspect has developed over a time period of immigration to the great extent that people of different cultures can now call Australia their home. Immigrants in the past years have become a crucial part of Australia as they have benefited the community by assisting and introducing the development of an inclusive and accepting nation. GOLD…

Dismissing a Harmful Myth The “all Asians are smart stereotype” is not something new and was actually addressed over twenty years ago in an essay by Ronald Takaki. The essay opens with rhetorical questions to get the audience thinking to set the problem and transitions directly into the issue by stating the stereotype of Asians as the model minority. The rest of the essay displays statistics and experiences of Asian Americans to help argue that Asian Americans do not have it as easy…

society. However, over the years Chinese Americans have overcome their initial hardships when first immigrating and have been successful in making a home for themselves here in the United States. Some such examples of this can be seen in New York Chinatowns and in San Francisco suburbs, and their Chinese culture and effects appear in many areas of the United States, in American dishes, fashion, technology, and artistry. During the mid-1850s, a large number of Chinese traversed the Pacific Ocean…

I believe that the media portray the Southside as dangerous, thugs and uneducated people that always stay on the news. And portray Northside as well mannered, educated and sophisticated people that barley be on the news. That why people shouldn’t believe what the media is telling you because there’s always telling us half of a story. The south and the north side has a lot of things in commons. They both have good parts and bad parts of the neighbor’s hoods. They have good restaurants and…

served in traditional settings. The food, seasoned with fresh ingredients such as lemongrass, chilies, coconut milk, and others, is a real celebration for the one’s senses. Everywhere you go, from the upmarket shopping malls, to the tiny streets of Chinatown, to the numerous markets or corners around the sacred places, you’ll find numerous vendors offering freshly made meals. Trying Thai street food is a must. Forget the cliché about the rice. Street food is more than that. Some of the most…

The book A Tale of Two Cities and the movie Crash, both share a major and unexpected act of redemption in the end of each of the stories. In the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Darwin, we see the character Sydney Carton “waste” his life for Charles Darnay, whom is sentenced to death during the French Revolution. By doing this Sydney is volunteering to die to save Charles Darnay’s family in an act of redemption. We see a similar act of redemption in the 2006 academy award winning Crash. In…

Columbia's first and last neighbourhood with a substantial concentrated Black population. It was known largely for its African-Canadian population and home to the only African church in the city. Unfortunately, like most segregated Black settlements and Chinatowns, Hogan's Alley was subject to the status as a slum in need of "urban renewal" or "slum clearance." The building of a freeway exactly at the site of…

I would describe culture as the collection of traditions which form in different communities. These communities could be as large as a continent and a country, or as small as a neighborhood and a family; This variety allows different communities to inspire each other 's culture. My culture is very complex because my family diverse and I am from San Francisco which also has a very diverse culture. I have experienced a lot of different cultures for someone my age, and I personally believe that…

segregation has affected my family when my parents first arrived in America. For them, they lived in an area that was predominately people of color. The neighborhood was near Chinatown, but there was a mix other ethnicities such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Latinos, and African Americans. Even though the location was at a close proximity to Chinatown, which had access to fresh produce, the neighborhoods were filled with convenience stores at every corner. These stores mostly sold junk food, tobacco,…

hustle and bustle really inspire me to do things. The city has so many sounds I hear buses, people yelling, people handing you things, street music and police sirens. Walking down Penn. Street I smell foods from all different countries. If I go to Chinatown you'll taste amazing authentic Chinese food. One of the most beautiful placesMy Trip to Washington, D.C One of my very favorite places in Americas is a city rich in history and is absolutely stunning, Washington DC is my favorite city. I've…