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Re: There is a new route to flee persecution from autocratic regimes and file for political asylum in the US 10:16 by ♭♫ [+-]

This video clip reminds me of when I was a young smart-ass kid talking to the US boarder agent near San Diego upon returning home from a weekend road trip from Tijuana with my family.

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Re: Hi, I'm back, and I was robbed. 06:39 by ♭♫ [+-]

Did a crazy person rob you like this?

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Hi folks. I'm just back from Xinjiang, China. All in all it was a very interesting experience, and very enjoyable. Except for the last 2 days in Shanghai which really really really sucked.

I was robbed in Hongqiao Airport on the way to transfer to Pudong for my flight home. I lost over $2000US and didn't even have enough money for the bus ride to the other airport, much less for two nights lodging for my 2 day layover.

The police were sympathetic, but ultimately had no way to help me recover my money or ID. So, I basically lost all the money I earned working over there. Grrr.

But I'm safe back home and I have friends and stuff keeping me from dying before I graduate from school.

What does that mean to any of you? Nothing, really, except that I will be on a faster connection and more able to check out and participate in Adam's forum again. But I thought you might be interested in my story. Oh, by the way, that was the short version.

Re: The HanFu Movement looks like it is still continuing strong thanks to WuXia movies 06:30 by ♭♫ [+-]

Hanfu is reeking with sex appeal

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Re: A Glimpse of Las Vegas Chinatown 05:53 by ♭♫ [+-]

The corrupt officials and developers controlling the fate of Washington DC Chinatown should learn from Las Vegas Chinatown on how Chinatown can thrive again.

[www.fox5vegas.com]

Generation Z input needed to determine Las Vegas Chinatown’s future

Re: Cool Asian Kids Who Love To Dance 02/20/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Poplocking like you really really own it!

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Re: Shen Yun 02/20/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

The crosshairs aimed at Shen Yun:

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Re: Role Models who lift up the Chinatown community 02/19/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Lily Lo founded BeChinatown to uplift the community, support businesses, and help local immigrants navigate their transition to life in the U.S.

BeChinatown aims to revitalize San Francisco's Chinatown and ensure its sustainability for future generations. The nonprofit is a collaborative effort involving community leaders, residents, merchants, property owners, and San Francisco natives, all working together with a shared vision. Their mission is to showcase the beauty of Chinatown, attracting visitors from across the country and around the world

Re: The rise and fall of Chinatown: The hidden history of displacement you were never told 02/19/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

Historically, displacement started with arson.

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Two fires were reported within 15 minutes and a block of each other in Los Angeles’s Chinatown neighborhood Wednesday morning where authorities said they were investigating reports of a person walking around with a gas can.

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In 1923, the Bell Telephone Company purchased additional real estate along the corridor for its new high-rise building and parking lot, displacing Chinese residents. In the same decade, the city used eminent domain to demolish blocks of housing to make way for the Broad-Ridge Spur connecting the Eighth Street and Vine Street subway stations. A Philadelphia Evening Bulletin article in 1934 declared Chinatown to be “a thing of the past.”

As the city began to accommodate more car owners, Race Street was remade as a major thoroughfare to the Delaware Valley Bridge, now called the Ben Franklin Bridge. In 1926, the year the bridge was completed, the Bulletin declared that “The Delaware River Bridge has come and Chinatown must go,” echoing the xenophobic slogans that drove Chinese workers out of western states half a century earlier.

YEAHS - 三種賤人 02/18/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Re: What it Meant to Be Cantonese in China and America, 1850–1900 02/18/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

"Hui" (similar to Keiretsu) is probably the role model for modern micro-credit lending because Chinese-Americans were denied access to Western Banking services to start businesses that threatened the status quo.

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Likewise, the author profoundly misunderstands southern Chinese hui, or rotating credit associations, casting these as a response to exclusion by European and American bankers, rather than a long-standing financial instrument that Chinese migrants had brought with them from their homeland. Both errors point to the author’s limited concern with Chinatown or the Chinese community of Hawai‘i on their own terms. Rather, the master force in the book is that of “whiteness”—a phenomenon whose hegemony in Hawai‘i is asserted ad nauseam.

For most of the book, Chinese actors and voices are strangely absent, as are any serious discussion of debates within the Chinese community.

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