1950 Changes in the number of Hong Kong immigrants to the United States from 2008 (data comes from the Immigration Data Yearbook of the Department of Homeland Security). After 1965, a large number of Hong Kong immigrants moved to Manhattan Chinatown. Together with Taishan immigrants who first entered Chinatown and immigrants from other parts of Guangdong who moved in from 1965 in the same period, Cantonese became the main language in Chinatown. Under the influence of Hong Kong immigrants, Chinatown has gradually developed into a small community similar to Hong Kong, which is often called "Little Hong Kong".
The early scenes of Manhattan's Chinatown (pictured from new york Historical Society and new york Historical Society) are superior to other Asians in terms of assets and knowledge, but the living standards of many Hong Kong immigrants who first arrived in new york have dropped significantly, which is not unrelated to the living conditions in Chinatown. Immigration researchers from City University of new york once interviewed a Hong Kong immigrant Ming. His family had lived in Chinatown since 1968, and only moved to Brooklyn a few years ago to facilitate his father's medical treatment.
Zhao Wensheng, who is nearly seventy years old, is full of energy and cares about current events. In addition to American political and social news, Zhao Wensheng has been paying attention to the mainland and Hong Kong. In the early years, many Hong Kong people had doubts about their inner world, but Zhao Wensheng was one of the Hong Kong people who had long been closely related to other China immigrants and looked at the mainland with an open mind. On the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, he told us that he had been paying attention to the changes in his hometown for 20 years and saw that Hong Kong had gained many opportunities and developed very well. "My own attitude towards the Central Committee is also changing, and my feelings are getting deeper and deeper."
Bacari (left) and Rui-Wen Zhu are in the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in new york. Rui-Wen Zhu left Hong Kong only about a week ago. During the interview, I asked her why, as she saw it, some people in Hong Kong wanted "Hong Kong independence". She said, "Seeing is believing."
Rui-Wen Zhu, Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in new york: Some Hong Kong people, especially young people, have no confidence in their future because they don't know much. I have followed the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs of Hong Kong to many provinces in the Mainland. Wherever I go, I will meet Hong Kong people or students who work there. The reaction I heard was that they didn't find it until they got to the mainland. The mainland is very different from what they read in Hong Kong newspapers. Therefore, we strongly encourage young people in Hong Kong to visit, study, work or even just travel in the Mainland, so that they can experience that the development in the Mainland is not entirely what they expected.