Buildings are being created, houses being built, businesses, shops, supermarkets, shopping malls are being established even as I write this. Are many of them owned by Chinese investors? YOU BET.
So who is being hired to build and operate all of these shops, supermarkets, etc.? These investors and entrepreneurs are bringing in their own people and not hiring Americans. This burgeoning immigrant population helps the Democrat party since immigrants vote two to one for the Democrats. The immigrants favor Big Government.
Ethnicity of Flushing, Queens
• White 19.7%
• Black 3.5%
• Hispanic 18.4%
• Asian 44.3%
The Flushing Chinatown is one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic Chinese enclaves outside of Asia, as well as within New York City itself. Main Street and the area to its west, particularly along Roosevelt Avenue, have become the primary nexus of Flushing Chinatown.
However, Chinatown continues to expand southeastward along Kissena Boulevard and northward beyond Northern Boulevard. In the 1970s, a Chinese community established a foothold in the neighborhood of Flushing, whose demographic constituency had been predominantly non-Hispanic white. Taiwanese began the surge of immigration, followed by other groups of Chinese. By 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the population of the core area of Flushing, with Chinese in turn representing 41% of the Asian population. However, ethnic Chinese are constituting an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian population as well as of the overall population in Flushing and its Chinatown.
A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone. Mandarin Chinese (including Northeastern Mandarin), Fuzhou dialect, Min Nan Fujianese, Wu Chinese, Beijing dialect, Wenzhounese, Shanghainese, Suzhou dialect, Hangzhou dialect, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and English are all prevalently spoken in Flushing Chinatown, while the Mongolian language is now emerging. Even the relatively obscure Dongbei style of cuisine indigenous to Northeast China is now available in Flushing Chinatown. Given its rapidly growing status, the Flushing Chinatown may surpass in size and population the original New York City Chinatown in the borough of Manhattan within a few years, and it is debatable whether this has already happened. The New York Times says that Flushing's Chinatown now rivals Manhattan's Chinatown for being the center of Chinese-speaking New Yorkers' politics and trade.
Flushing is included in the 6th and 5th Congressional districts. The 6th District is represented by Grace Meng. She won with 68% of the vote. Greg Meeks is in the 5th District. He won with 90% of the vote. Both went overwhelmingly for Obama.
That’s CAPITALISM and we ought to welcome it. It keeps companies that provide the best products and services on their toes.
The kind of capitalism we practice in the US is not the kind of capitalism practiced in the PRC. We are not playing on an even playing field. And remittances from nationals in the US to their home countries total over $50 billion a year with $12.2 billion going to China annually.
