Flushing, NY (part of Queens) is largely taken over by lower-class money-grubbing Chinese, who turn neighborhoods into crapholes. Their areas of town are filthy, crowded cheek-to-jowl, filled with slap-together constructed houses that will be lucky to last 20 years, sidewalks full of vendors of illegal stuff like baby turtles, hot sheet motels, people handing out sheets on the sidewalks, houses illegally subdivided into apartment for packing in as many bodies as possible, etc. Just like home. Why don’t they go BACK home if all they want to do is crap up ours?
“Flushing, NY (part of Queens) is largely taken over by lower-class money-grubbing Chinese, who turn neighborhoods into crapholes. Their areas of town are filthy, crowded cheek-to-jowl, filled with slap-together constructed houses that will be lucky to last 20 years, sidewalks full of vendors of illegal stuff like baby turtles, hot sheet motels, people handing out sheets on the sidewalks, houses illegally subdivided into apartment for packing in as many bodies as possible, etc. Just like home. Why don’t they go BACK home if all they want to do is crap up ours?”
They don’t want to “crap up ours”. They don’t know any different. And they aren’t all lower class. They came to Flushing because that is where their relatives were and they hear there are good paying opportunities there. They have no idea what other places in the US, other than Calif, are like except they think there are rednecks who will attack them. The govt of NYC takes advantage of them. The Chinese don’t know how much better life is elsewhere. A money grubber is just somebody trying to make a living in an expensive place and working hard at it. The Dem politicians that run Queens are corrupt but that is normal to them. Educate them. I go to Flushing often and know the people there. There is opportunity to champion Americanism, but not if those immigrants are pushed into socialist control.
This generation in this place will struggle in every way they know, which isn’t much. Just like the Jews a hundred years ago that lived in NY’s worst ghettos and lived by selling stuff out of pushcarts. I have seen Chinese communities do the same thing. In my lifetime, in Manila, we had Chinese rickshaw pullers and domestic servants. No more.
The kids of those people you so despise will fill the best spots in our universities, and their grandchildren will be your grandchildrens bosses.
I have seen this.
I think the operative phrase is "lower-class". The effects of low income, limited education, and the often the values that come with that condition are well known. Regardless of the ethnic or racial composition of the "lower-class" in the neighborhood, similar problems arise.
It is a mistake to assign the cause to the ethnicity of the residents when that is rarely the primary factor.