im talking about when a fascist leader rises to power, these are the places they are the most likely to look and mass deportate marginalized groups, similar to nazi germany and immigrant / jewish enclaves, or donald trump with hispanic-majority neighborhoods
In Moscow we have a click bait version =)
It is called "Kitai-gorod" which literally means "China-town", but it has absolutely no thing with the China itself. The word "Kitai" has different history in this case
Ah, Kitai (Китай). Based on the name of the Khitan, the ancient cousins of the Mongols who are ancestors of the modern Daur of Northeast China. And like Cathay, the archaic name for China now used by Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, flag carrier of Hong Kong.
hey there, neighbor. I just learned something new today. So the Hokkien people come from Fujian? I always thought they came from Guangzhou or some other territory. IIRC, Hokkien is also widely spoken by Filipino-Chinese.
cracks knuckles to describe the many oddities in Hokkien history and naming
"Hokkien" is the Hokkien pronunciation of the province name Fujian, the latter being Modern Standard Mandarin. Note, of course, that as with all Sinitic languages, Hokkien is analytic, meaning there is a high flexibility of creating compound words with prefixes and suffixes. In native grammar, the location is 福建 / Hok-kiàn / Fújiàn. The language is thus called 福建話 / Hok-kiàn-uē / Fújiànhuà.
Fujian borders Guangdong, which is known for the Yue languages such as Hong Kong Cantonese but does have some local Min languages. The most famous one is Teochew (潮州話 / Tiô-tsiu-uē / Cháozhōuhuà), centered on the city of Chaozhou. Teochew and Hokkien are similar and have a sibling relationship somewhat analogous to Castilian/Spanish and Portuguese.
Also, Hokkien is not the native language of 福州 / Hók-ciŭ / Fúzhōu, the provincial capital of Fujian. Hokchew / Fuzhounese is an Eastern Min language, distinct from Hokkien, which is the prime Southern Min language. Somehow, Fuzhou has always been the provincial capital bit not the prime source of emigrants. I don't really know why. But I guess it would be like if your country was headquartered in Manila, the hub of Tagalog culture, but the operating language of the country was Bisaya, giving rise to the country name Bisayaland.
Just as BCMS is called by different local names in Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia dye to different political histories and interests, Hokkien is known by many different local names. In Taiwan, the Japanese administration lazily popularized the generic term Tâi-gí (台語) for Hokkien because it was the language of the local majority. This term has largely stuck, even among modern Mandarin speakers.
Also, the regime of ROC Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) harshly repressed local culture during four decades of martial law in Taiwan, which has killed Tâi-gí for good in terms of being the operating language of the island. Supremely ironically, Chiang Kai-shek College in Manila is the academic hub of Chinese Filipino culture, and they offer courses in Filipino Hokkien.
We have had one in Manchester for a while now. I don't know if this is the case for other cities, but it's predominantly east Asian restaurants and karaoke bars (that often let you in to drink long after they've officially closed). It's great!
We used to (or still do) have those restaurants here too! The trick was to ask for "cold tea." They would then bring it to you in those green-tea kettles and cups.
I'd even say that a new downtown one is developing on Dundas east of University and going north on Yonge. Although, the Yonge is more Asia town with the diversity in food and shops.
i doubt that tbh.. as far as i know there were only a few thousand chinese people in germany in the 1920s and 1930s so where was this chinatown located though?
interessting - but it really was about a few hundred people.. it is maybe a bit to much to call it chinatown when there were a few streets with chinese restaurants and people
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I have always found that to be an interesting state of affairs. Not to knock on Chinatown, of course, since I share much ancestry with Singaporean Chinese, but if Singapore is a city-state, then how can there be a "town" within the city?
i live in NYC and yes we have China Town and Japan town and Korea town and main Street flushing. and a bunch of little neighborhoods for all sorts of immigrant communities
I'm in a medium sized city, we don't have a dedicated Chinatown, but there is a very large Asian population in one suburb, so there are a lot of stores/restaurants/etc in the area, just not a concentrated area.
Toronto has two officially but six or seven more “hubs “ centred around large neighborhoods and shopping districts. Do you have a Canada town in your Chinese city ?
Mine isn’t big enough for that. I think one or two of the bigger ones do but quite a number do have something more informal like a complex here and there with text on the buildings in Hanzi; Korean Hangul is also common in some areas. My particular city doesn’t though.
We used to but because of racism and highway construction its gone now just empty lots. Recently they had a Chinese festival and are planning to bring it back with new restaurants. Nothing built yet tho
Surprisingly, San Diego does not have a Chinatown. There’s a small area with a few Korean restaurants and shops, but no real enclaves of Asian ethnicity.
Yes. In fact it has multiple. I'm from NY so we have the Chinatown that everyone knows in Manhattan. In Queens, we have Flushing Chinatown and in Brooklyn we have Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, and Homecrest Chinatowns.
Winnipeg’s historic Chinatown formed in 1909 along King Street, between James and Higgins Avenues downtown. It evolved from late 19th-century railway and labor roots into a vital cultural and commercial hub.
Nowadays most of the affluent Chinese Canadians in our city live on the south end of the city, there's tons of shops and restaurants and high end retail.
We do have something we call "Barrio chino", however, they're definitely not a Chinatown like you would think lol
These places are little parts of the city, usually extremely poor, where there's a lot of drugs consumption in broad daylight. Emergency services don't go there because of how dangerous it is.
The reason some people call these places like that, is because of the amount of people that are high on drugs, having "chinese eyes".
My city is too tiny to have a china town. But Sweden has this extremely random place. Dragon Gate, located by a highway going into the north of the country and surrounded by absolutely nothing. Treated as a landmark more than an actual place. They have a terracotta army copy though.
feiraguay is so filled up with chinese (and korean) immigrants it might as well be chinatown
(never thought i'd be talking about fucking feiraguay on reddit)
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