If you ever visited New York City, you will hear people talking with each other with different languages on the street. If you pay attention to the street, you will notice that there are different signs on the stores. to the scenes in New York City. Those signs represent part of the local culture and they together forming the New York City. There is only special place that people or visitors can definitely do not want to miss is the Chinatown located in Lower side of Manhattan, where including not only signs that show the Chinese Culture, but also incorporating the American, Italian, Spanish and other countries’ culture. The Chinatown in Manhattan also has the relatively long history among all the Chinatowns. Therefore, I would like to introduce this place from the infinite benefits and meanings it bring to the whole society.
First of all, the Chinatown brings more opportunity to immigrants, especially new immigrants. As you can see from the images that I take from the streets. They are all bilingual. For those people who are not yet adapt to the new life and not fluent in speaking English, this is exclusively important for them to make a transition. They can read the original Chinese from the board to find something such as which store they are looking for, or just talk to some Chinese employee to order what they want. From this aspect, we can see that is not only beneficial for individual, but also beneficial for the society in the long term. Immigrants are a big part of the society, and their workforce can not be ignored. If they can properly being helped, that would make their social status better and created a more harmonious relationship between people to people.
Chinatown not only brings benefits to immigrants, it also brings the unique Chinese culture to the local people and eliminate the stereotypes. For many people that never have been to China yet, they might have lots of misunderstandings against Chinese culture. For example, the Chinese food, in their opinion, might be those junk food with only sweet and sour flavor and you can buy them at a very low price at just a random store along the street. However, the Chinatown eliminate this stereotype by providing a relatively clean place for just everybody with fast while affordable. Their excellent service can really amaze people once people have tasted them.