Chinatown
in the Indonesian language is often referred to as the "Pecinan", an
area dominated Chinese people are almost in all cities in the world included in
one of the world's largest cities, namely New York. New York's Chinatown is the
largest Chinatown in the United States with a population and civilization on
the west side of the hemisphere's largest Chinese. Newyork Chinatown is located
in Manhattan has two square miles of shops, homes, restaurants Chinese. The
population is estimated between 70,000 and 150,000 residents a favorite
destination of Chinese immigrants who came to the United States and in recent
years there are also citizens of other races and cultures that live there.
A Brief History of New York Chinatown
The
Chinese immigrants began living in Chinatown around the mid-eighteenth century
and the nineteenth century a growing number of immigrants who moved to
Chinatown in New York for various purposes such as joining their families or to
seek employment, trade, open businesses including fishing. Chinese miners began
arriving in numbers doubled as promised "golden mountain" in
California during the gold rush in 1840 ago. They were hired to build the
Central Pacific Railroad also during their migration in the 1850s, many
immigrants came to work, earn money, and returned to China with a lot of money.
As
jobs are falling down like the Chinese railway sector and miners, they began
working regularly in the tobacco industry and textile factories. They have to
work due to their work with lower wages and longer. The white population at the
time of assembly and against the Chinese workers who are considered seizing
their work, it makes the Chinese workers began to migrate to the big cities
that actually has a chance to work more also more accepted by the people who
are already experiencing the cultural mixing. In 1880 has been recorded
300-1000 inhabit Chinese immigrants in New York City included in the slums.
Chinatown
supported most of their own people in the face of racial discrimination by
creating an internal structure that consists of association governing structure
for the community, business, office, medical, items needed everyday, food, and
of course: a job. Chinatown has been rising throughout the late nineteenth
century, new Chinese immigrants are given a place in the top level of the house
until they are independent, this house lined to provide privacy, sometimes for
a two bedroom apartment occupied by 5-15 people. In the poor living conditions
and cramped, Chinese immigrants slowly continue to grow, continue to arrive
even after the Chinese Law issued in 1882 set up to stop the immigration of
Chinese people who came to freedom of work. This makes the white population
angry because of the willingness of the Chinese people to work with lower wages
in poor conditions which, in turn, leaving less work for the white population.
Law then set to declare that they prohibit any naturalization by the Chinese
who has lived in the United States, and it also means that Chinese immigration
was not given a special work permit to work in the United States. Work permits
only to individual traders, students, or diplomat. It also prohibits the
immigration of wives and children of Chinese workers living in the United
States. The action continued to increase in restrictions throughout the coming
years. The action was revoked during World War II.
There
40-150 men and 7000 women of Chinese residents of Chinatown, according to
rumors in the white community. At that time, according to a Bachelor's Society,
said that there opium den of prostitutes and slave women in Chinatown. Because
a large amount of discrimination and antagonism of the white community, the
Chinese decided to create their own communities, associations, and government
in their isolated town. allowing workers unofficially working illegally could
just block Chinatown. Chinatown secret government organization is arranging a
funeral, opening their relatives, dispute mediation, as well as a number of
urgent and important legal matters more for their civilization. Not only do
they make this government intact, but they also create actions and laws that
protect poor immigrants, though still far from peaceful stay in the early days
of Chinatown. No clan members oppose the Chinese people who believe in
different faiths, making tourists, Chinatown residents, and residents in the
area are afraid to visit Chinatown NYC and surrounding areas.
After
such action adaptation of Chinese immigrants, Chinatown began to rise again,
they continue to grow, slowly, throughout the 1940s and 50s. Chinese continue
to be paid less than the legal minimum wage in terrible conditions for hours to
thousands of immigrants looking for work. Chinatown Chinese immigrants mostly
come from the mainland, and is known as "Chinese city." Or "Pecinan".
In
the late 1960s, immigration quotas were breached create a population booming,
Chinese immigrants flocked to Chinatown Chinatown expand even further, taking
over part of Little Italy. They will buy the building and the apartments to be
converted into a business trade clothing and items using cash. They began to
receive foreign investment from Hong Kong, this makes Chinatown became one of
the largest and commodities for the necessities of life, immigration, and this
starts from small independent society is structured.
Chinatown New York Chinatown Become Largest in US
Building
in Chinatown today is the same building that was built over the centuries the
eighteenth and nineteenth. Rent several apartments and store fronts in
Chinatown are some of the highest levels in the city for their new building is
luxury housing throughout their communities. Buildings in Chinatown are now
arranged in an orderly and tight together, but the bloc has expanded to add
more space to continue to develop Chinatown. New York Chinatown today is home
to the majority of Chinese immigrants and the key point for tourists from
around the world. Town houses, hundreds of shops, restaurants and markets for
residents and tourists who visit.
New
York City is not only known as the largest city, but also the most populous
city apparently has a Chinese village and there are six locations that can be
found in this town. One of the locations that tourists can visit are in
Manhattan. If you are looking for a spot smelled Asia, of course Chinatown was
the one great place to explore especially in this region is really complete.
Various tourism related to culture and history offered in this place, the
following are also many Chinese eating house.
The
popular statue of Confucius can be found in Chinatown. When Lunar New Year
coming or what we call also with the Chinese New Year, then this area becomes
very exciting and lively with the festival is part of the celebration. The
streets in the township of Chinese but American travelers would be able to feel
the atmosphere is different, because every store there looked festive with red
color and Chinese writing are sometimes combined with writing English.
