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.
“Check out upper Main Street, Broadway (of Queens) or College Point Blvd.”
Yea, I have been in the neighborhood a bit and yes, it can be crowded down around the LIRR stop in what I tell my family is “little Beijing”. Almost no English spoken. However, up in Bayside and up around 150th in Flushing it isn’t anything like that. Depends on the person and their own view. The students vary like anybody but on average they have stronger pressure to do well in school and have stronger family pressure to not misbehave. Else, they real bad negative reactions. It depends on the person.
They are in need of conservative education. Ignore the bad ones—most of the Chinese do. And, they DO care what you say about school and role models. They don’t act like it but they need to know those things. Later, it might make a difference.
Sorry to hear about the messy neighbors.
People here will not want to hear this but our Chinatowns can be notoriously dirty. I’m always leery using any of the restrooms in Chinatown in NYC because the conditions are often shocking. Oops, more anecdotal evidence!