“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.
On another thread I brought up the need for “redneck classes” to teach the fun folkways of the real American people. We Asian people need duck-hunting missionaries.
They litter the sidewalks with endless cigarettes, including my dear neighbor. I just sweep all the butts over to his side and onto his porch. Let him look at them. I don't want to. At least we reached a tentative agreement that he and his "son" (I strongly suspect that 20ish kid is an illegal tenant) do not throw their stinking cigarettes into my carefully tended garden, as they used to.
And let's not assume all Chinese students are exemplars. There are plenty of them who are total thugs; I've had a number of those in my classroom. Yes, most Chinese students are a complete delight, but yes, there are plenty of the above-mentioned as well. They are disrespectful, disruptive, etc. Apparently they chose poorly when they picked their role models to emulate as "real Americans". They end up sounding and acting like ghetto black thugs. I have tried to counsel them to choose other role models and honor the proud heritage of their people in achievement. Hey, sometimes it works, but not often enough. I also rescued a partially deaf Chinese girl from an abusive situation by calling down an investigation on her. Her parents had forced her to work as a near-slave in their jewelry factory and I got her out of that situation.
This has been my experience, the data bank from which I draw my opinions. It is not a general bigotry, because I generally do respect the Chinese as a group.