Great changes have taken place in Chinatown with the dream imprint of overseas travelers.

Whenever I see going abroad and going abroad, there is always a word, and that is "Chinatown". Over the years, Chinatown has become synonymous with China people living abroad, resting, avoiding strangers and chatting for comfort. Seeing Chinatown in a foreign country is like seeing hope and warmth.

With the strength of the country, Chinese people's enthusiasm for going abroad has gradually cooled down. Coupled with the impact of the epidemic, it left the homeless with the impression that it was difficult to survive outside. Things that are effortless at home have to go through a lot of trouble when going out, which has to make them reconsider the significance of going abroad to pursue their dreams. Chinatown has become the best mapping of this phenomenon.

Chinatown is actually a general term, that is, a place where Chinese from various countries are concentrated. In a word, opening a shop, doing business and living are all places where China people live. In many countries, there are Chinatowns, mostly the rudiments built by local Chinese and an economic organization or private joint venture, and then attract more investment.

It is not necessarily a business, but mainly a place where Chinese gather, which is equivalent to the function of a bar, as long as there is a place.

The United States, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea all have more or less digital Chinatowns. Historically, China people's dependence on overseas countries has declined. It has taken away the interest and enthusiasm of many overseas Chinese and brought a slightly complicated mood.

The initial formation of Chinatown should still be based on commercial and trade services. For example, the Chinatown in Nagasaki is for the export of copper, and China people are restricted to do these things in certain areas.

New york's Chinatown has become a transit station, where dream-seeking migrant workers from China rest and then set foot on the road of working in Chinese restaurants. There are more than 20 employment agencies here, specializing in job introduction. And migrant workers can come back here in stages at any time. In the hearts of China people, they will feel that this is a base camp, which can give them a lot of peace of mind.

Chinese and western clinics, insurance companies, banks, barber shops, temples, brothels, casinos and so on. You don't need a legal identity here.

After all, this is actually a passive place because of racial discrimination.

Compared with new york's Chinatown, Europe's Chinatown is more symbolic and unnecessary, but it was established only to show that China people have their own territory and cultural symbols here. For example, China, Britain and France used the palace wall with China characteristics.

In Europe, unlike North America, Chinese people suffer little racial discrimination and have the same right to buy a house and other rights as in the city center, so Chinatown here is a symbolic place. Especially young people can better integrate into the local business environment.

Most Chinatowns are associated with filth. Most of the "Chianton" in the American population are engaged in low-end service industries with obvious levels. Most of the new generation of cultural immigrants live in white areas, no longer attached to the old Chinatown, and the decline trend is obvious.

A hundred years ago, the United States made a tourism advertisement for Chinatown, which enlarged some customs in China into tourist attractions, emphasized China elements such as Chinese characters, dragons and scarlet, and was accompanied by a large number of police. This is obviously a kind of discriminatory propaganda.

16 years ago, Chen Guoqiang came to the United States with confidence to find his dream and was envied by many domestic companions. As a Cantonese, his experience is a typical Chinatown record. From the new unloader to the restaurant handyman, until he opened his own shop, he never left the groceries. After so many years, I finally have a mixed-race identity, but my situation has not been fundamentally improved. In recent years, there are more people leaving Chinatown than coming, and business is getting worse and worse.

Nowadays, young immigrants feel less about Chinatown, and they are more likely to integrate into the upper class. In this sense, the existence of Chinatown is a bit unnecessary.

"Now all the restaurants and business districts in Manhattan have been upgraded. It's just that Chinatown is becoming more and more foreign, as if to satisfy foreigners' curiosity about China, but it can't leave them a good impression of China. "

"Until now, some Americans still think that only red and green, dragons, lanterns and blue and white porcelain are China.

Recently, another problem is that the police are becoming more and more unscrupulous in Chinatown, breaking into China shops at will and even taking people away for no reason. This makes many people here feel insecure.

As far as Chinatown itself is concerned, many people used to live in Guangdong and Fujian, so even there, they still have to speak Cantonese, which makes many other areas feel less at home. Many new immigrants no longer yearn for it, or even haven't been there for many years.

From the appearance, there are probably no fewer than1000 so-called Chinatowns in the world, such as San Francisco Chinatown, Brooklyn Chinatown in new york, Washington Chinatown, China City in Los Angeles, Toronto Chinatown Group, Vancouver Chinatown, London Chinatown, Paris 13th District Chinatown, Barcelona Chinatown in Spain, Hamburg Chinatown, the Chinese community in St. Petersburg in Russia, Yokohama Chinatown (the largest Chinatown in Japan and even in Asia) and Seoul Chinatown. , basically all countries have.

Chinatown is basically a cultural phenomenon. From the Chinese point of view, it is a totem-like incentive for wanderers who can't see hope and way out, so that they can live a strong life. For foreigners, their feelings about this thing are actually very complicated. Most of them just think that this is the gathering place of China cuisine.